PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 65, 9 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Extensive preparations are being made to farewell His Excellency the Governor from Auckland. The proceedings will include a procession of yachts and power boats on the harbour, in which their Excellencies will take part. The Mayor of Auckland has received the following telegram from the Governor’s private secretary : —“I am directed by their Excellencies to say that Friday evening, November 29th, will bo set apart at your renuost for a citizens’ farewell in the Town Hall.”

On Wednesday His Excellency the Governor despatched the following clSn' message to His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught,Governor-Gen-eral of Canada, Ottawa: “It may bo grateful to your Royal Highness to know that I'have to-day received the Canadian Cadets at Government House. They are being enthusiastically welcomed throughout New Zealand, and are impressing all with their soldierly appearance.-—(Signed) Islington.” The following reply has been re-ceived:—-“Grateful for kind message received. Glad to know that the Canadian Cadets are making a good impression.—(Signed) Connaught.

Mr. A. D. Blick left for Wellington by the mail train this morning, returning to Stratford on Tuesday.

Mr C. E. Archibald is gazetted to be chief clerk in the New Plymouth office of the Department of Lands and Survey, vice Mr. Bannister, transferred to Wellington.

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the wellknown novelist, poet, and assayist, has been appointed Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University:

The Ron. J. R. Sinclair, M.L.C., is t 6 leave London by the Maloja on November 29th, and twill reach Dunedin about the middle of January. Mr., J. Thomson, of Ngaire, who is a member of the Taranaki Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, intends to visit England early next year, states the ‘llawera Star.’ , •

Lady Dorothy Wood, who will be remembered by Now Zealanders as a daughter of the late Lord Onslow, is to act as whip to her husband’s harriers in the coming hunting season.

Mr J. T. Critchell, the author of “The History of Frozen Meat,’’ left by the Otranto on September 27bh for Australia and New Zealand. He intends touring the Dominion for the purpose of obtaining information respecting its commercial economy, etc.

Mr G. Robertson,- a driller from the Californian oil-fields, who has been engaged by the Bomthon Coinpany, New Plymouth, will arrive in Wellington to-clay from San Francisco. The boring plant ordered by Mr. Wm. McLean (secretary) when in America is coming to hand in the steamer New Mexico.

Mr. Christopher Hurlstone died in the Old People’s Home, New Plymouth, yesterday morning. The deceased was one of the pioneop settlei ? of the district, arriving in New Plymouth with his parents on Novcmoei 18, 1841, by the Oriental. Ho had been an inmate of the Old People’s Homo for many years. The funeral of Mrs. Askew, an old and highly respected resident cf the Denbigh Road, who died suddenly on last j took place at the Midhirst Cemetery yesterday, and was very largely attended. The service at the graveside was an impressive one. and was conducted by the Rev. B.Metson,

Sir Charles ' Campbell; Bart;, has arrived at Sydney from London by tho Otranto, en route for New Zealand. Sir Charles, who is 62 years of age, came to New Zealand in 1874, and engaged in sheepfarming. In 1878 he married a daughter of the Hon. William Robinson, of Cheviot Hills, Canterbury. He succeeded to the title in 1901

Mr. George Harwood, Liberal M.P. for Bolton (whose death is reported by London cable) was a member ot a. cotton-spinning firm. Along with Dean Stanley, Mr. Thomas Hughes, and others, he founded the Church Reform Union. In 1886 ho was ordained deacon, and served for,three years at St. Anne’s Church, Manchester, while retaining lay dress, title, and occupation, as an attempt to widen the diaconate.

Captain Michael Egan Lindsay, of the 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal’s), and late of the First Contingent of New Zealand Volunteers in the Boer War, who served under Captain Davies (now a brigadier-gen-eral),. has lately been distinguishing himself as a big_ game hunter In an up-country shooting trip in India lately he and a comrade, Major Sparrow, had some good sport, amongst the game which fell to his rifle being four fine tigers.

Mr. F. N. H. Beamisn, 8.E., of Hastings, arrived in London recently, savs a Homo correspondent. He is the holder of the engineering travelling scholarship of the New Zealand University for the current yea i, and, m accordance with the conditions attaching to that, he comes to this country to seek employment with one ot the large engineering.and manufacturing firms, besides visiting various places of engineering interest. Thomas A. Edison, despite his advancing years, was so busy in the first week of September that he fount, time for less than 22 hours’ sleep in the course of six working days. By his own accounting, he devoted 122 hours of the 144 to hard work The spurt of energy was inspired by the need of finisping touches to his disc phonograph. He stated that the invention was about perfected and he hoped and believed that he would be able to put it on the market by October. Prince Arthur of Connaught will, according to London Court gossip, shortly receive from the King a signal honour, in the shape of a dukedom, which will place him in the House of Lords; and the title of Duke of Kent is suggested as the most probable to be conferred upon him. . It will bo some years before His Majesty, if precedent in this regard be followed, will have to confer peerages on any of his sons. The Heir-Apparent of course is already Duke of Cornwall, while to Prince Albert, who will not be seventeen until December, may be given in the fullness of time the Dukedom of York, revived for his present. Majesty by Queen Victoria., ;#■