PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 86, 6 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Harold Beauchamp has been appointed acting-chairman of the Bank of New Zealand.—P.A. Mr W. A. Saunders has purchased the “Wintou Record” newspaper from Messrs Briasco and Bellamy, and took over the property on Saturday last. | Dr. Kerr-Hislop, of Inglewood, who was offered the position of medical in-j specter for the schools in the Canter-; bury district, has decided not to accept same.

•Mr Hayes, of Wairarapa, who returned from a trip to the Land and Europe, has been visiting a (laugh-, ter, Mrs Henry, and a son, Mr Hayes, j jimr., at Kohuratahi. Mr Campion, London manager of the Australian Bank has been appointed London manager of th© Commonwealth Bank, which opens at 36-38 New Broad Street early in January.— Cable. Mr Alf. Bradly, late of the locomotive staff of the Public Works Depart-; ment at Whangamoraona, was fare-1 welled prior to his departure for. Auckland. The friends and fellow-; workers presented him with a nice smoker’s companion. Mr Frank Fox, formerly of the Sydney “Bulletin” and of the “Lone Hand,” who has lately been appointed news editor of the “Morning Post,” was informed by the proprietors recently that they desired him to go’to the spene of the Balkan war on their behalf. The following day he set out for Paris. Princess Chalota (daughter of King George of Tonga) returned home by the Tofua on Tuesday to Nukualofa. The princess js the bethrothed of Prince Tugi, who, it will be remembered i' visited England for the Coronation. The Princess Chalota will return after the holidays to complete her education in Auckland, as she is only about 15 years of age.

Dr. Te Rangihiroa, who sailed by the Tofua on Tuesday from Auckland for Niue (one of the outlying islands of the Cook Group) is to act for several months as medipal officer until a permanent appointment is made. The island has a native population of about 4000, which is double that of Rarotonga, the principal unit of the Cook Group, and 37 whites are resident upon it. Dr. Te Rangihiroa was accompanied by his wife. Joseph Pridmore, a veteran seaman, was introduced to His Excellency, Lord Islington, at the Sailors’ Home, on Thursday (says the Auckland Star) as one who served under his father, Admiral Dickson, as an able seaman on H.M.S. Britannia, which was stationed on the Black Sea during the Crimean war. Mr .Pridmore, though 86 years of age, is uncommonly hale and hearty, and is able to work his eight hours a day in one of the Auckland Warehouses. He had long been looking forward to an interview with Lord Islington, and h : s wish was gratified by Mr T. Harle Giles, who invited him to the Sailors Home on the occasion of the Governor’s visit.

Prince Licnnowsky, the German Ambassador to London, is one of the ninety-seven heads of families of the high nobility who are hereditary members of the Herrenhaus of Prussia. His Serene Highness ie a great landowner in Silesia, in Austrian Silesia, where his castle of Gratz is situated, as well ae in Prussian Silesia. Subjects of the Hapsburgs until Frederick the Great wrested the larger part of Silesia from Maria Teresa, the head of the family received the Prussian title of “Furst” in 1773. Like a majority of the Silesians, the Lichnowskys, who took that name on inheriting in 1491 the village of Lichften or Lichnov, are Roman Catholics, and related by marriage to some of the most notable Catholic families of Europe. The mother of the present Prince belongs to the princely family of Crov, which ranks us of equal birth to the Sovereign houses. Her son was born nearly fifty-three years ago. It was not till he was forty-four that ho married at Munich, a noble Bavarian lady, the Countess Mechtilde Arco-Zinne-berg, who is nineteen years younger than her husband.