PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4141, 19 January 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

Ten days’ leave of absence was given the Mayor (Mr W. G. Sherratt) at the Council meeting last night.

Motorman McDonald, of the' Gisborne tramway staff, has forwarded his resignation to the Council,, jas he has been accepted for service at tihe Front.

Mr. It. Pollock, who is ahead of the Stanley McKay Pantomime Company, which is tinder the direction of Mr. Geo. Stephenson, is in town arranging for the company’s season, which . opens during race week.

Amongst the men who went into camp last week, states an exchange, was Fred Bassett, father of Corporal Cyril Bassett, of Auckland, who gained the Victoria Cross for technical services performed with the utmost skill and daring at Gallipoli. Mr Bassett is 50 years of age and a printer by trade. He joined the infantry.

The “British Australasian’’ makes the following announcement: “On November 21st,. at St. Michael's., Sydenham, Captain Robert Logan, of the Wellington Mounted Rifles, eldest son of Colonel Logan, Administrator of Samoa was married to Miss Hilda Rogers Hawk ridge, of Sydenham.

Major C. E. Andrews, -who has been admitted to hospital at Heliopolis, is a brother of Staff Sergeant-Major Andrews, of the Gisb-orne Defence Office. He was a staff officer at Ti ma mi and was appointed adjutant of the Second Reinforcements. He was promoted to the rank of major a few weeks ago. His wife went through a course of nursing in Scotland after Major Andrews had left for the front, and she war then accepted for active service in France.

The late W. G. Grace had one physical infirmity which was not commonly known. Fie had only one lung. The other had .atrophied in childhood. The atrophied, lung never troubled him- Indeed, in his boyhood ho achieved some notable feats as a sprinter on the running track, and for many years he kept himself fit by running with the beagles in Gloucestershire. “W.G.” was essentially a sportsman, and outside sport, his interests were unite circumscribed. Such medical books as he preserved. were out of date and neglected. Wisdom was his Bible, and his complete file or that famous cricket almanac he knew from beginning to. end.

Mr Winston Churchill has a double who is a waiter in a Plymouth hotel. It is a rather remarkable fact that Mr Churchill's doughty opponent, Lord Chp.rl.s Beresford, also possesses a doubl ' in a waiter who is hi s exact count part. At a mater of fact, we probal y all have doubles somewhere or the other. King Edward had quite a lot.' King George and the Czar of Russia are eerilv like each other, and there is a gentleman in Massachusetts who is exactly like Colonel Roosevelt, oven to the teeth and the smile, which really is surprising. George du Mauriev and Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema, Jules Ferry, the French statesman, and William Whitelcy, Lord Tennyson, and Sir Leslie Steuben, the late Pierpont Morgon, and .Tern Mace, supply examples of notorious doubles.