PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9, 4 September 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The King intends to _ confer the Dukedom of Kent on Prince Arthur of Connaught.—Cable. Dr. Truby King, who has been the guest of Mr. A. W. Budge, left Stratford this morning for New Plymouth. The report published yesterday concerning the death of Mr. H. Brown, at Hastings, has been confirmed. Death, was due to heart failure. The death occurred at Mastorton on Monday of Mr. J. H. Pauling, a prominent citizen of Mastorton, aged 50 years. Mr. Bowman, leader of the Labour Party in the Queensland Parliament, has resigned the position owing to illhealth, reports a Brisbane message. The death is announced of Mr. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the musical composer, Mr. Coleridge-Taylor was only thirty-seven years of age, but had published over fifty works, including a part of Longfellow’s “Hiawatha.” Mr. Mark Sinclair, for many years chairman of the Hon. J. A. Millar's permanent election committee, died at Dunedin yesterday, aged sixty-nine : feed's. Councillor John W. Stevenson, a member of the Hutt Borough Coun;;’cil, died on Sunday afternoon, after > long and painful illness. ~: M r. J. P. Murphy, who for several ;years has been one of the guides at the Hermitage, Mount Cook, 'has been appointed manager,of the new hostel-, ' ry on the northern slopes of .Mount ' Egmpnt,—Press Association wire. ’ .. |;;The, death,occurred at Wanganui cn .Sunday of Mrs. .Jane 'Ormshee, relict 'of 'the late Mr. George Wilson Ormshee, aged seventy-eight years. Mrs. Ormshee was the daughter of the late i Mr, Henry Nathan, one time Mayor of;Wanganui, and was the mother of Mrs. C. H. Chavanues, senior.

Miss Ellen von Meyern. well known in Auckland as a portrait and figure painter, died last Friday in a private '■'•''htispital, after an operation for appendicitis. The deceased lady, who was only twenty-nine years of age, was i - ‘a daughter of the late Mr. Alfred von 1 portrait painter, and was a ’ native of Dunedin. Mr W. Thomas, 8.A., of tho Marton

District High School, who has been ; on a holiday visit to Stratford, staying “with Mr “Joe” Thomas, of the local school, was taken suddenly ill, ■and removed to the Stratford Hospital and last night was operated upon for appendicitis. On latest advices the patient was progressing favourably. Stratford residents will regret to learn that the Rev. 0. Hanhy and Miss Hanhy (brother and sister to Mrs. E. C. Robinson, of this town), are amongst those injured in the tram accident reported in a Press Association message elsewhere. Their mother, . Mrs. Hanhy, is staying with _ Mrs. Robinson, and is naturally much upset at the unfortunate occurrence. The Rev. Mr. Hanby’s wife (who escaped injury) this morning sent word that the suiferors had been removed to the Hamilton Hospital. Deep regret will be felt throughout this district at the news of the death of Mr, John Kindberg, a Flint Road settler, whoso many sterling qualities made him highly respected throughout the province. Mr. Kindberg came out to New Zealand from Norway many years ago, and he resided in many portions of the North Island, in- , eluding Palmerston ' North, Puniwhakau, Haw-ke’s Bay, and Auckland, be- , fore finally settling down, some two years ago, on the Flint Road. He leaves a widow and a large family of sons and daughters, the eldest of wrhom, John, is married, and living at Owhanga. Years ago, before public health claimed so great a share of State attention, Dr. Vauntine had a red lamp up in Hawera. and was, in fact, an officer in the Hawera Mounted Rifles, from . which' so many bright soldiers came-—including Brigadier - General jjavies, C. 8., commanding a brigade at Aldershot, Major Bartlett, D. 5.0., ' Captain “Bob” Matthews, N.Z.S.C., now adjutant at Auckland, and Captain Morrison, also of the staff corps, Dr. Valintine intended serving in South Africa with the First Contingent (writes the Auckland “Observer’.’), but while on parade with the Haweras, his horse fell and rolled on him, injuring a leg which had to be amputated. His physical disability has never had any effect on his gaiety, or strength of character, and ho remains the best of good company. A young brother of his (Harry) joined the. “First,” and afterwards became a mining official in Johannesburg, wlmre he still is. Harry, who with 17 other Np\v'- Zealanders, was captured at SanmkAPost. wrote an excellent little /<4oßwhich he called “Twelve Weeks 3 qnsoner of War.”