PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 22, 18 September 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The'marriage of Mr Arthur Greonaway, of tho Plimmer-Denniston Cornparry, and Miss Rosslyn Vane, was celebrated on July sth last. Mary Miller, 10 years old, is being hailed by the newspapers as the swimming marvel of tho age. Sho swam across the Hudson River in an hour and ton minutes. . Mr Arthur Varnoy, organiser of technical instruction and secretary of tho Wanganui Technical College, has boons appointed general secretary, of the Wellington Y.M.C.A. ■ Mr M. J. Kilgour's friends in New Plymouth will regret to learn (says the Taranaki Herald) that after Ins arrival in;England he was laid up for several weeks. When tho last mad loft England, however, he; was recovering.

Mr Ceo. Armstrong, Madame Melba's son, was recently married in England to Miss Elsie Doyle, a young ; Brisbane singer, in whose career the diva has ..taken, a, great amount, of .n>. terest. The Czar of Russia is stated to have insured his life with an English company for £BOO,OOO. Though the dotails are kept with great secrecy, it i is calculated that he pays £16,000 annually in order to secure the future of his family. The first of four volumes of Duparck's life of Mr. Lloyd George contains many characteristic incidents of his early life—such as his refusing to repeat the Apostles' Creed at school, refusing to join a procession to church ,on Ash Wednesday, and persuading his school fellow to evade confirmation. It also tells of his conflicts with the clergy and with Tory magistrates when he was a solicitor.—London cable. Mr. Tennyson Smith, the temperance lecturer, has been ordered by his medical adviser to cancel all engagements in Australia. He has therefore decided to take a rest and then return to England, where lie hopes to resume his mission. MiSmith met with an accident hi May last,"when he fell through a coal-bunk-er hole on a steamer at Devon t>u!;. (Tasmania), and from this he has not yot recovered. The death is announced from Sydney of John Fagan, at tho age of 72, who, as a young man, drove Cobb and Co.'s . coaches over the Blue Mountains to Parramatta. Ho later purchased a line of coaches running from Carcoar to Granfell, and other centres. In latter years he pursued grazing pursuits, and owned several stations. He drove the mail coach when it was stuck up by Ben Hall's gang at tho Eugowra gap.

Mr Tom Bain, the popular ox-man-ager of the Canterbury representative football team, who has been doomed for the past week at Nurse Stron.'ion's nursing home, with a severely poisoned hand, has sufficiently recovered 10 allow of his return to his home in Christchurch. Ho left by rhe mail train this morning. Mr Bain w'shea to express his heartiest thanks to the people of Stratford for the kindness he has received, more particularly to Dr. Paget and to the staff of the i.urs'.ng homo.

Mrs A. F. Grant, while driving in Broadway yesterday afternoon, wis thrown from her trap through the pony stumbling and breaking a trace, and was rather badly cut and shaken. Mr Grant, who was walking ;>t the time, witnessed the accident to his wife, and at once secured medical aid. Dr. Menzies discovered some small arteries in the neck to have been cut, but fortunately there were no bones broken or any other serious injury. Friends will be glad to learn that on enquiry to-day, Mrs Grant was stated to be making an excellent recovery.