PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 59, 2 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. B. Hine, M.P., returned to Stratford last night, leaving the same evening for Toko. Mr J. H. Thompson, who has been making an extensive tour cf the back country, was in town yestord .y. Mr Frederick Fisher Miles has been nominated by the professorial boaid of the Otago University for the Rhodes’ Scholarship.

Mr A. S. M. Poison, headmaster oi the Napier Boys’ High School, has accepted the position cf principal of the Ballarat College, Victoria.

The Hon. James Allen, Minister of Finance, leaves for London on December 13th. He has booked passage by the Orient liner Orama.

■ Mr. Frank Alwyn Taylor has been selected by the Professorial Board of Auckland University College as the Auckland candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship for 1913.

Mr P. G. Brennan, of the Public Works Department in New Plymouth, has been transferred to the Proclamation Office at headquarters m Wellington. His promotion dates from November 13.

Mr J. W. Balten, a settler of many years’ standing at Tokaor.i (near Hiwera), died yesterday morning at the ago of 78. He is survived by Jus widow and a family cf two sons and five daughters. Mr Pearce, editor of the Pastoralists Review, has been appointed by the meat companies of New Zealand and the principal companies in Australia as delegate to the Chicago Refrigerating Congress in September. Mr. T. H. Gooch formally took over the Dominion Hotel, Kapouga, on Monday. Mr. C. Kaspar, who has been licensee of the hotel for some time past, is retiring to his farm at Toko, where he intends to carry on dairying.

Probate of the will of the late Eliza Tilley, of Inglewood, widow, was granted on the 25th ult., on the aphcation of Mr. Hnghes, to Mrs' Henrietta Jane Franklyn, daughter ot the deceased. /

Mi-. M. W. Watt, of the Department of Agriculture, is to be an inspector under the Dairy .Industry Act; Mr. W. E.'F. Flower, inspector under Rabbit, Noxious Weeds, and Fertilisers Acts; and Mr. W. S. Hill has been appointed a temporary officer.

Miss H. Lewis, who has been a teacher at the Midhirst school for some eight months, has been appointed teacher at the Tariki school. _ On Thursday afternoon, Miss Lewis, who is very popular both with parents and children, was presented with a brush and comb and glove box set. Mr H. W. Sutton, formerly Mayor of Hawera, who has been residing in Napier for two years, arrived back in Hawera on Thursday night with Miss Sutton. Mrs Sutton and the otner members of the family will arrive next week, says the Star. Mr 1 and Mrs Sutton and family are sure of a warm welcome on again settling in Hawera.

Miss Dansey, who has been in charge of the Kaponga Post Office for a considerable term, was the recipient of a presentation from the townspeople on Thursday evening (reports tho correspondent of the ‘Hawera Star’). Mr. A. H. Guy (chairman of the Town Board) made the presentation, which consisted of handsome toilet silverware, in the-.course of a lengthy eulogistic speech, Mrs. Dansey, who had been equally obliging in the office, was through Miss Dansey, handed a silver tray and toast rack.

Lord and Lady Islington will leave Wellington’ for Auckland on November 22, and will finally leave New Zealand for England on December 2. On Saturday, November 23, His Excellency will ' formally open the King George’s Hall at Mount Albert, and on November .27 he and Lady Islington will give a large garden party at Government House. It is proposed to have some sort of public demonstration in honour of their Excellencies on Saturday, November 30. Mr. and Mrs.* King, of Eltham, who intend residing in Hawera, were farewelled at a party at the local vicarage on Thursday night. Mrs. King has been an ardent and enthusiastic worker in both church and Sunday-school, while Mr. King has been a churchwarden of All Saints for some time. During the evening Mr. and Mrs. King were presented with a smoker s companion, and a silver button-hook, glove-hook, and shoe-horn in case (bearing an inscribed shield)', respectively.

The late Sir William Steward (“the Father of New Zealand’s Parliament”) was born in 1841, at Reading, Berks, and was educated at King Edward Yl. Grammar School, Ludlow. Salop. Arriving in New Zealand in 1862, he settled at Christchurch, removing after a few years to Oamaru, where he hold prominent public positions, including those of member for Waitaki, and Mayor of Oamaru. Sir William took a great interest in volunteer matters, eventually becoming major commanding the North Otago district. He was in Parliament for nearly forty years, as member for Waitaki 1871-75, and member for Waimate from 188l_ to 1911. Last year he retired and was appointed to the Legislative Council, Sir William, who was knighted in 1902, was engaged in commercial pursuits until 18G7, and from that date till 1900 was engaged in journalism, as editor or proprietor of the ‘North Otago Times,’ ‘Waimate Times,’ ‘Ashburton Mail and Guardian.’ He published some volumes of poems and a book on Parliament Procedure in New Zealand.