PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 57, 31 October 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. F. Seamon, one of the Inspectors of Life National Bank of New Zealand, is on a visit to Stratford. Mr W. R. Bonner, well-known in Stratford, has purchased the, Tariki Hotel. He takes possession on Thursday. Messrs Ward and Dunlop conducted the negotiations. Mr George Smart, who for some time past has been confined to his residence seriously ill with what was supposed to be ptomaine poisoning, was able this many friends will be pleased to hear) to get about to-day.

, Nurse McLean severs her connection with the nursing staff of the Stratford Hospital to-day. Her successor, Nurse Myers, who has had English experience, takes up her duties to-morrow. The Minister of Finance (Hon. James Allen) will leave for London on December 13. He will travel by the Orient steamer Orama, arriving in London about February 1. Mr William Ellis, of Hale, near Farnham, Surrey, one of the “Six Hundred,” who rode bv the side of Lord Cardigan at Balaclava, has been presented with a bath-chair by the colonel of his old regiment, the 11th Hussars, and a few friends. Mr Chas. H. Poole v ex-M.P., ®f New Zealand, is giving great help to the suffragists of the State of Wisconsin, by lecturing there on the advantage to the State of granting equal suffrage. He is citing the good effects that have obtained in New Zealand since the admission of women to the franchise. Mr. D. Evans, headmaster of the Okato school, who has been appointed to the charge of the Opunake school and will take control on 11th November, is well-known in the Stratford district, being a son of- Mrs Evans, Regan street, Stratford. He was a pupil of the local school, the late Mr Evans, son., being headmaster. Mr Evans was previously teaching in Inglewood 'before being headmaster > at the Oaonui school v and later being appointed to Okato. Captain Henry Haydon, ex-Mayor of Palmerston North, and a prominent man in public affairs for many years, is dead, states a cable from London to-day. Deceased arrived in New Zealand in 1879, and settled in Palmerston, and from the start took a keen interest in public affairs. He was a councillor for many years and Mayor for a term. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce, and last year represented the Chamber on the recent Empire Conference in London. He went Home partly on account of his health, and his wife followed him to bring him back, but he died three days before her arrival in England.

Mr Bertram Charles Emery ofsilew Plymouth, was married to Miss Mildred Eva doll, third daughter of Mr and Mrs H. T. doll, of Strandon, in the Whiteley Memorial Church. New Plymouth, on Tuesday. The bride looked charming in a cream cloth costume, with a Leghorn hat trimmed with wisteria and lined with pink silk. The bridesmaids. Misses Vera doll, sister of the bride, and Monica Emery, sister of the bridegroom, wore dresses of white eordnrov velvet. The Rev. d . AY. Burton officiated, and the bride was .given away bv her father. Mr S. Pitt (Stratford) uncle of the bridegroom. acted °s best man and Mr H. AV. Lightband as groomsman. Mr W. M. Peary - presided at the organ, and plaved the wedding march as the happy couple ..left the church. The honeymoon is being spent in Auckland.