PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 74, 20 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

William Cook, an elderly man, and an old-age pensioner, died in the Stratford Hospital this morning. Mr. B. Fearon, secretary of the Stratford A. and P. Association, left by mail train this morning to attend the Hawera Show.

Dr. J. C. Simpson, of the District Asylum, Inverness, has been appointed an assistant medical officer under the Mental Hospital Department of New Zealand, and left London for Wellington by the Tonic. Mr. T. Kirkwood took with him this morning on the mail train five of his well-known show dogs for competition at the Hawera Show —viz., Erna Belie, Rack-a-Rock, County County, County Prince, and County Belle.

Mr. Charles Evans won the president’s two guinea pipe for getting most new members to the Fe.lding A. and P. Association by the end of October. He secured sixty. The runnerup was Mr. W. Reid, who got fiftyeight. Mr. J. McCluggage yesterday handed in his resignation to the Taranaki Land Board, and it was accepted wi h regret. This has been made compulsory owing to a recent amendment of the Land Act providing that no person carrying on business as a land agent shall be eligible as a member of a Land Board. The Rev. W. Baumber, of Nelson, received a telegram last night stating that the Revs. C. Eaton, and J. 1). McArthur, Methodist ministers, pxet with a motoring accident near Rai Falls, while journeying into Blenheim. Mr. McArthur was riding a motor cycle with Mr. Eaton in a side car. The machine left the road and fell over a high precipice. Details of the accident and the injuries are not known. The injured ministers were taken on to Blenheim Hospital. A message to-day states that details of the accident are meagre. Mr. Eaton 1 sustained some broken ribs and cuts about the body, and Mr. McArthur was also cut about. Mrs. J. 0. Fraser, an old and respected resident of Poverty Bay, died yesterday, states a Gisborne telegram. She went to Gisborne over 40 years ago, and took a prominent part in defending Tolago Bay when Te Kooti descended on that settlement, and is indeed regarded as one of the heroines of the raids. Colonel Porter, in bis book, says that Mrs. Fraser did Spartan duty, arming herself with a gun and doing everything possible to instil a spirit of courageous defence into the defenders until,relief arrived. The Very Rev. Dean McKenna, who will have completed his twentyfive years as parish priest of Masterton on November 23rd, contemplates, taking a trip to Ireland early in the New Year, accompanied by his brother, the Rev. Father McKenna, of Paihiatua, and expects to return about the end of the year. As the Dean’s health has not been of the best of late, it is hoped that he will be much benefited by the trip. The Dean is making the trip Home, with the primary object of seeing his mother, who is now in her 83rd year.

Mr. Free, lately acting Postmaster at Whangamomona, met a number of his priends prior to his departure from Whangamomona. Mr. McDonald, in proposing the health of the guest, referred in flattering terms to the everready and willing manner in which Mr. Free had carried out his duties as acting .Postmaster here. Although pressed by a number of townspeople to accept the permanent position of Postmaster, Mr. Free found it would not suit him at present, he being under orders to proceed to the South Island to a larger office. Mr. Free’s successor (Mr. Hatton) was welcomed at the same gathering.

The new Rhodes scholar, who.jis a son of Mr. James Milos, manager of the Bank of Australasia, Invercargill, is 20 years of agej He was educated at the'Boys’ High School in that town. Ho gained a junior university scholarship in 1908, and took his B.A. degree last year at Otago University, being in residence at Knox College. His record this year is—Advanced Mathematics, first.class; senior English, first class, first in honours English first class, first in the class ; James Clark prize. On the social side he is vicepresident of the Students’ Association, president of the Arts Faculty, editor of the Otago University ‘Review,’ and was the representative of the Arts Faculty in the Inter-Faculty debate, 1912. In athletics lie represented his school at cricket, football, and shooting, .and was fives champion in 1908. He has also been in ti c Otago University representative teams for football, tennis, and hockey, and was a member of the officers training corps in 1910.