PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 84, 4 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lord Liverpool and his suite arrived at Fremantle by tho Alatua yesterday. Lord Liverpool, who declined to lieinterviewed, is accompanied by the Countess and Captain Fast wood. Mr. David Greig, a resident of Wellington, for many years, died on Monday, at the age of 82. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has made an offer to provide an annual pension of £SOOO to future ex-Presidents of the United States, but it has not been welcomed at Washington (according to a Sydney ‘Sun’ cable). The statement has been made that President lait will leave office a comparatively poor man, and that he will he obliged to return to his practice as a lawyer.

Mr, Robert Barr, the novelist, died at his residence, in Surrey, England, on October 21st. Born in Scotland, in 1850, he spent his childhood in Canada. After a period as schoolmaster, he drifted into journalism, and gained some renown as 4 ‘Luke Sharp, in the ‘Detroit Free Press.’ In 188 i he went to London and started a London edition of this paper. A writer of versatile talents, ranging from broad Inimour to sensational fiction, he tinned out a great' number of works, ineluding “The Mutable Many” (a strike story), “The Speculation cf Julia Steele” (a financial novel), and “Tne Tempestuous Petticoat.” AVith Mr. Jerome K. Jerome in 1892 he founded “The Idler,” but retired three years later to devote himself to fiction.

Mrs. Leather, of the Friary, Tickhill, Doncaster, must have had ajoyous birthday party. Six of her soldier sons, all of them haying seen active service in South Africa at the same time, met at the Middleton Hall, Belford, Northumberland, last month, to celebrate her seventieth birthday. The six sons are: Major C. F. lowlerton Leather, who served during the Beer War as adjutant of the Northumberland Fusiliers (the Fighting Fifth); Captain due Santory vi no served in the war with the 1 ourth Battalion Durham Light Infantry; Captain Ernest A. Leather, who served during the war with the Fifth Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, but did not go to South Africa; Lieut. Iv. J. Walters Leather, who saw more fighting than any of his brothers as aicle-de-camp during the war to General Gough; Lieut. Edward W. Leather, who fought in the Third Battalion Yorkshire Regiment; Lieut. Christopher Leather, who fought with tnc Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers. After tho Transvaal War all six officers resigned their commissions in the regular Army.