PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 96, 18 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lord and Ladv Liverpool arrived at Auckland by the Mahva this morning and were received by the ActingAdministrator (Sir Robert Stout), tne Hon, W. F. Massey, and Ministers. They were cheered on landing and drove to the Government House. 1 bey were entertained at a civic luncheon in the afternoon and leave ior Wellington at (j o’clock this evening. The Governor created a good, impmssien on the steamer and was very popular, participating in tho games and other amusements.

Mr H. S. Powell, a recent arrival from Home, has been appointed conductor of the Mauaia Municipal Band. Mr T. Arthur, who retired from the position of Bailway Traffic Superintendent in 1909, died at his residence in Wellington on Monday. Mr T. Harry Penn, accompanied by Mrs Penn and family, left Stiatd rd this morning for the Auckland c.htii *t on a month’s holiday.

Mr L. Hill, of Eltham, suffered a bereavement on Monday through the death of his sou, Mr A. L. Hill, aged 21 years, at Auckland. Typhoid lever was,the cause of death. Mr James A. Muir, a well known accountant and for many years secretary of the Waikanae Hack Pacing Club, died very suddenly at Manakau on Sunday.

Mr J. L. Bnhinson, 8.A., was officially ordained as a fully accredited minister of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand at a meeting of the Taranaki Presbytery at Hawcra yesterday.

Mr Kenneth Mnnro, son of Mr J. 'Munro, manager of the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand has successfully negotiated the first section of the Law Pofessional exam Mr Munro has joined Mr W T . G. Malone s staff. '

The Very Bev. Dean Power (of Hawera) and Bev. Father Bartley (ol the Semnarv, Moanee Hawke’s Bay), paid a special visit to Stratford yesterday, and wore the guests of tne Bev. Father Treacy.

Mr A. D. Thomson presided over the Palmerston North Magistrates Court for the last time prior to Ins assumption of his duties as Civil Service Commissioner. The members oi the local Bar presented him with a metal tray, and solid silver salver.

Sir George Reid, Australian High Commissioner in London, owing to a fall, was unable to distribute the prizes at Pitman’s School at the Oueen’s Hall, London, and the Hon. T. Mackenzie, New Zealand’s High Commissioner, took his place. King Alphonso of Spain was recently motoring with the Queen in the outskirts of Madrid when he saw a drunken carter brutally ill-tieating his fallen horse. The King alighted and helped the horse to vise, and then vigorously boxed the driver’s ears, saying as he left, “Now you may go to the King and tell him 1 have assaulted you.’

Councillor F. W. N enn, who has just retired from the chairmanship of the Horowhenua County Council, lias been a member of that body for some 23 years, during which time he has been chairman on several occasions. The new chairman, Cr. G. N. Stephenson, lias been a member for fourteen years, and has held office on other occasions.

Mr “Don” Cameron, well known Taranaki football rep., who is entering the ranks of the Benedicts, was last night presented with a cheque by members of Mr Newton Kings local staff. Mr Cameron leaves for Wellington on Thursday, and “kicks-off” in the matrimonial “match” on Monday.

The late Rev. Father C. J. Venning is to have dedicated to his memory a new primary school for Catholicgirls in Wellington. Several suggestions had been made of suitable memorials ,but the school being urgently needed to replace an inadequate bunding at present used, it was decided by a meeting of parishioners to adopt this form of the Venning memorial. Mr F. A. Tyrer, headmaster of the Stratford High School, lias been in a very indifferent state of health for some time past, and an immediate holiday is»necessary if he is to return to his duties when the school resumes after the vacation. At last night’s meeting of the School Committee a motion of sympathy with the headmaster was minuted, and the secretary was instructed to convey the terms of the resolution to Mr ryici.i Mr and Mrs James Wilbourne ostab-, lishod a curious, record at Newport, Kentucky. Fourteen years ago the couple, ’ respectively 10 and 17 years of age, eloped, and were married in ( North Carolina. Three years later the wife secured a divorce hut lour years afterwards they were remarried in Canada. Another ifflculty arose shortly after their second marriage,! and this time the husband sought andj obtained a divorce. The wife wentj back to live with her mother, but a few weeks ago the two laches were j travelling together on a train when, they ment.Mr Wilbourne, who immecli- 1 ately proposed to his former wife and was accepted for a third time,A license was at once obtained, and the couple were married by a Magistrate. Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, the lead-1 or of the Woman’s Social and Politi-| cal Union, which is better known to the general public as the Militant suffragists, is without doubt the most, widely known woman in Great Bri-. tain (writes Mrs Ada A. Holman in; the Sydney Daily Telegraph). She; is the commander in chief of an army: of men and women. She is the direc-' tor of a movement that has fimmc'al and business ramifications in every hole and corner in the country—-in ev-j cry sleepy hollow, in every indus-' trial centre, as in each square and street of the huge metropolis itself. I Her commissaries are iu every institution and in every family. She is the most adored woman in the three kingdoms, the most detested, the most dreaded, the most reviled. There is not a day of her life that she does not speak in public, sit in committees,! and transact huge masses of business.

Mine. Bernhardt, to whom an address of congratulation was presented in London the other day—her birth-j day anniversary—did not want to bean actress, but a mm. A family council, however, decided on the stage, and she was taken, as an experiment, to see “Britannicus.” It moved her to instant tears, and her sobs were eventually so loud that she had to be removed. Thereafter she became a pup] at the Conservatoire, where she won a second prize for comedy, hut got no honour in tragedy. Thence she went to the Cornedie, and subsequently to the Porte St. Martin and to the Odeon. Scoring a great success in Hugo’s “liny Bias,” site was invited to return to the Cornedie. went, and speedily took leading parts in great, plays, finally carrying Par s away with “Phedre” and “Donna Sol in “Hernani.” A visit to England followed, and later a series of foreign tours.