PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9856, 25 July 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death is announced by cable from London of Harry Driver, the actor. Mr C. J. Hansen, of Palmerston North is at present confined to a private hospital His friends will wish him a speedy w covery. Mrs G. Stern and Mr H. Stern, junr. of Shannon, after spending a pleasant holi day at Palmerston North, returned hom» laßt Wednesday. Advice has been leceived that Sir Jama Mills has been appointed director of thi London Board of the Bank of New Zealam m succession to the late Mr R. H. Glyn.Press Association. The death occurred at Eataitai on Thurs day of Mrs Costall, wife of Mr Samuei Costall, formerly Government Printer. Mn Costall, who had been in poor health foi some time past, was 77 years of age. Rev. H. G. Rosher left Palmerston this morning on a tour of'the Taranaki district in the interests of All Saints' Children's Home. To-morrow's services at All Saints' will be conducted by Rev. Reeve, vicar of Wanganui. A pretty wedding took place on Wednesday at St. John's Cathedral, Napier, when Miss Olive Newton Snodgrass, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Snodgrass, .of Napier, wa6 married to Mr Alexander P. McHardy, eldest son of Mr and Mrs L. H. McHardy, of Blackhead. The interior of the Cathedral was very prettily decorated, and the ceremony was performed by Canon Mayne.

The death is announced by Press wire from Napier of Rev. Dr. Sidey, aged 87. .Deceased was for many years minister in charge of the Napier Presbyterian Church and clerk of the Hawke's Bay Presbytery. He was treasurer also and Moderator of the old Northern Presbytery of New Zealand. Dr. Sidey was a man of considerable scholastic attainments.

An announcement has been published in American newspapers that Madame Sarah Bernhardt, who is now 70 years of age, is about to undertake a professional tour of the world, which will extend over 26 months, and during which she will visit five Continent's. She will commence her tour in October, with a season of 15 weeks in the United States, after which she will sail for the Mediterranean, and after giving a series of , performances in Europe, 6he will change her company and will appear on a vaudeville basis, visiting South Africa, Australia, and Japan, and going afterwards to Valparaiso, Buenos Ayres, and Rio de Janicro. Her final appearance will he in Madrid. The Waipukurau correspondent of th»i Hawke's Bay Herald writes that the news of the death of Dr. A. Todd was received in Waipukurau with much regret. As one of the doctors of the days of the 'sixties, Dr. Todd, until his retirement, did work in Hawke's Bay, the importance of which oannot be overestimated. Indeed, writes the correspondent, it can be truly said that only the early settlers separated from the tiny townships and doctors by unbridged rivers, often flooded, and by mere bridle tracks through ferny scrub and bush, appreciate fully the devotion to duty that inspired the medical men of those days. A very stalwart among them stood Dr. Todd, who, over a distance stretching from Woodville to Hastings, from the Ruahinee to the sea. did work that gold alone could not pay for, and which earned for him a name which will not soon be forgotten.

Dr Kerzl, whose name hae figured on the bulletin! issued recently concerning the health of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, was at one time a simple army doctor. It was in 1901 that he was first brought to the Imperial notice, and then in a somewhat unusual manner. The old doctor Wilderhofer died, and one of the Emperor's aides recommended the obscure army surgeon, whose work had won a deal of admiration in his own world of camp and barrack, but of whom little was known outside. The Emperor consented to sec the doctor and an audience was fixed for ten o'clock. That hour passed, but no doctor arrived—in fact it was past eleven bofore he made an appearance, and then his reception was distinctly a cold one. "You were to come at ten o'clock," said the Emperor. "At present I am busy with other affairs." "I was operating at the military hospital this, morning, your Majesty." said the doctor calmly. "I could not leave before without risking a man's life." The Emperor asked more kindly: "Who was your patient?" "I don't know his name, sir; he was a private of infantry." said the doctor. The old monarch, without another word, took the surgeon's hand and shook it warmly and then retired, but the next day Dr. Kerzl's appointment to the Imperial household was announced.

Such wintry weather reminds us that with, in the next three months, we may expect more. September sees the equinoctial gales raging to show how unwilling grim winter relaxes his iron hold. Such days give ample opportunity to get your full five shillings' worth of wear from the millinery models (marked at 21s to 555) offered now at Collinson and Cunningbame's.—Advt.