PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 42, 12 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. H. Priestley left by the mail train this morning for Gisborne. Mr. F. Clouston, of the National Bank, arrived in Stratford yesterday from Wellington. Mr. Clouston succeeds Mr. Benncll. Master George Ellwood, the youngest ofc the Ellwood brothers, who went to Germany some time ago to study | music, has undergone an operation for | appendicitis, in one of the Berlin hos- | pitals. Otherwise (according to news j received in Christchurch) the lads arc , doing very well. j Mrs. Sarah Hepworth, widow of Mr ! Joseph Hepworth, Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1907-8, has died at Harrogate, at the age of seventy-seven. After the death of her-husband lost year Mrs. Hepworth never left her room. The Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zeahnd (Mr. Maurice Thompson) 'passed through Stratford yesterday. To-night lie returns from New Plymouth, and will be present this evening at a big meeting of the local Masonic fraternity. Mr. T. M. Shakespeare, secretary of the Australian Provincial Press Association, and a well known newspaper man in Sydney,, intends visiting New Zealand with a party of country pressmen about the middle of November. Mr. Shakespeare and bis party will enquire in((o various aspects of New Zealand life for publication on their return. At Cuba Street Methodist Church, Palmerston, on Wednesday, Miss Sarah Neilsen, daughter of the late Rav. Neilsen, and of Mrs. Neilsen, of Cuba Street,. Palmerston, was married to Mr. Frank Mitchell, formerly of the clerical staff of the Magistrate’s 1 Court at Palmerston North, but now Clerk of the Court at Taiha-pc. The I wedding created a great amount of j interest among the members of the church, on account of the prominent part the bride had taken in Christian .Endeavour work there, and her musical accomplishments. A presentation and a fitting send off were recently tendered by members of the church. Dnlcie Deamor (Mrs. Albert Goldie) expected, when the last American mail left, to sail from Vancouver by the Marama on October 30th. Mrs. Goldie was successful in New York in securing a contract with G. W. Dillingham and Co. for the publication of her books, and since then she has arranged with Doubleday, Page and Co., for a series of prehistoric stories in their popular magazine ‘Short Stories.’ Mrs Goldie will return to Sydney where her husband is engaged on the staff of the ‘Sun,’ a position he temporarily vacated in order to take his wife on a world tour.

The marriage of Miss Carrie Winks to Mr. Andrew Hunter was celebrated by the Rey. Mr. McKenzie on the lawn of Mr. Winks’ homestead, at Normanby on Wednesday 1 afternoon. The bride, who was given away by her brother, Air. T. Winks, wore a dress of white muslin over satin, with a

tulle veil nicely embroidered. The bridesmaids were Miss B. Hunter and Miss J. Greville. Miss Hunter wore a dress of pink charmeu’se, draped with silver 'trimmings’, while Miss' Greville wore blue mnon - over satin, i Mij., Laurence Winks : attended the : bridegroom as best man. Many useful, presents were (says,the ‘Star’) received from a large circle of friends.’'Alt. land Msr. Hunter afterwards- deft by motor icar for Wanganui, their future home.

Mr. H. N. Holmes, late secretary of the Y.M.C.A., in Wellington, is having a very busy time in New York. He is in the international office of the Y.M.C-A., and is preparing to take up the secretaryship of the world’s tour of Fred B, Smith and Raymond (Robbins, two prominent evangelists. who 1 aye to be accompanied by'the: international male quartette, Gilbert, Metcalf, Keeler, and Peck The party will leave San Francisco by the Korea on October ,12th, and go to Honolulu, Japan, Korea, China, Philippine Islands, Australia, and,South Africa. Miv-Holmes hopes to arrive in Brisbane early in January, but does not know yet whether be will lie able to run over to New Zealand. In a chatty note to the editor of the ‘New Zealand Times’ he says: Events here seem to point to Woodrow Wilson being elected to the Presidency, but Roosevelt is sweeping the West, and ho is such a magnetic personality that one does not know what may happen, even a week before the election. Civilised communities to-day move like a flock of sheep, and quite a little event occurring may cause all to follow.” A wedding in which considerable interest was* taken was- celebrated in Palmerston on Wednesday at All Saints’ Church. Miss Olive/ Essex, only daughter of one of Palmerston’s well-known , citizens. Mrs. Essex, and of the late Mr. Richard Essex, exMayor of Palmerston, was married to Air. John M. Turnbull, second son of Air. W. Turnbull, of Dunedin. Rev. H. G. Rusher officiated. Air. Harry Essex, brother of the bride, gave her away. The bride wore an exquisite gown of cream duchess satin with net yoke, and sleeves embroidered, with small pearls. The braided skirt which opened to one side over guipuere lace, was embroidered with pearls to festoons of true lovers’ knots. The maids, Miss Paulino Fleming and Miss Muriel May, both wore ivory mouselieue cle soire over place silk daintily trimmed with Oriental embroidery, and wore gold bracelets, the gift of the bridegroom, Mr. E. Martin was host man, and Air. F. Blight, Palmerston, was groomsman. The bridegroom’s present to the bride was a ruby and diamond ring, and the bride’s to the bridegroom a gold watch. After the ceremony Mrs. Essex hold a reception at Mrs. Rawlins’ White House.