PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 83, 3 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lord and Lady Islington left Auckland for Sydney last night. They will leave Sydney next Saturday by the Osterley, Lord Islington going to India and Lady Islington to England. Pending the arrival of Lord Liverpool, 'the Chief Justice will act as administrator of the Government.

Miss Condon is to he asked to fill the vacancy on the nursing staff of the Stratford Hospital, caused by the resignation of Nurse Brake.

Mr. T. C. Cos, formerly managing editor of the ‘Northern Advocate, Whangarei, has joined the staff of the ‘Feilding Star.’

Mr. F. O’B. Loughan, of Hamilton, is to succeed Mr. Florence as Stipendiary Magistrate at Blenheim. Mi E. Rawson, Stipendiary Magistrate at Westport, has been appointed S.M. for Waikato, with Hamilton as headquarters. Mr Wyvern Wilson lias been appointed S.M. and Warden at Westport, in succession to Mr. Rawson.

•Mrs Seddon, widow of the late Prime Minister, four years ago presented six choir stalls to the parish church of Eccleston, in Lancashire, where Mr Seddon was born, and a marble tablet on a base of black marble, is now, being added, bearing the inscription.: “To the glory of God and in loving memory of Richard John Seddon, 1 L.L.D., Premier of New Zealand, bom at Eccleston, 1845, died 1906. , Mr. R- McNab has been elected president of the Manawatu Philosophical Society. In accepting the position, Mr. McNab said he consented to do so with some misgiving, because it was possible that during the latter part cr the period he would be in another pare of the world engaged in his own particular branch of study. It .vas uke.y therefore that the next presidential address would be dictated in a foreign j land and sent along by post. j Miss Adeline Genee, the actress, j will shortly depart on a six- months’ j tour in America. During the tour she will travel 28,000 miles, and in order; to avoid fatigue she is engaging a special carriage on the train for - herself, in which she will spend all the time when she is not on the stage. Miss Genee will have a sitting-iooin, bedroom, bathroom, and dining-room, with a chef to attend solely to her needs throughout the journey. 'Mr M. C. Barnett, Christchurch manager of the Public Trust Office, has been appointed Inspector for the Department. His new duties will commence on January 1, and lie will make Wellington his head quarters. Mr Barnett has been thirty, years m the Government service. He has held the post of district manager at Christchurch for the past twelve years. Mr S. A. Smythe has been selected by tho Government to succeed Mr Barnett in Christchurch, Mr. Smythe has been for the past twenty years in the head office in Wellington, and for the last few years has been in charge of the largest section cf the work there known as “Wills and Trust Estates.” Mr Smythe is expected to reaclx Christchurch about December 14.

Mr. J. M. Barrie, the author, iwlio celebrated his 52nd birthday recently, is one of those rare peclple who really “do good by stealth and blush to fina it fame.” All the details cannot be given—Mr. Barrie’s friends do not know them—but the essential thing is this, that, unknown to all but one or two people, Barrie is bearing all the expense of bringing up half a dozen hoys—youngsters minus both father and mother, who would have stood a poor chance of ever being anybody in particular if their case had not happened to come under Barrie’s notice. Perhaps, however,, it would be more accurate to say that Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up lum--1 self; 'ls 'bringing these hoys up. For every time the fairy play about bun ■is performed its author’s young proteges benefit, Mr. Barrie having some time ago arranged that a regular percentage of the royalties from “Peter Pan” should be devoted to their support. The six boys live together in a homo that Barrie has arranged tor them, and once every month they have dinner with their famous benefactor, and report progress.