PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 97, 19 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

M. Eallieres, die French President, gave an audience to Captain Amundsen, and decorated him witn the Legion of Honor.

Timothy Sullivan, in celebration ot his Jl2tli hirtiiclay, attended a picnic at C'iucago of tne e mud Celtic American Societies, and kept^every one amused with Ins lively stories.

Father Geaney, a South Canterbury “boy,” has just secured ids degree as Doctor oi Divinity at me Propaganda, Rome. After travelling on tne continent he will return to .\ew Zealand.

Mr J. B. Keen, superintendent of the Hawera Eire Brigade, the sent in jus resignation to the Board, who have asked tvir Keen to continue in office until a successor is appointed.

Obituary: Mr John Hughes, a member of the -New South Wales Legislative Council; and Sir William Duirant, sth baronet, who has for some time been a resident of Manly, am leaves no heir, states a Sydney cablegram.

Mr Leonard Liardet, an old Stratford boy, was successful in passing the final section of the solicitois law examination. Mr Liardet has been a student for two years, and is to be congratulated on his success. Mr George Bond, who for several years has been a member of Mr W . H. H Young's staff, is re-joining the stall of the N.Z. L. and M.A. Co., and mis accepted a position as manager ot tne produce department of the Company's Hamilton branch.

Mr E. G. Allsworth, Town Clerk iof\)hakune has tendered his resignation as Town Clerk and Returning Officer, the resignation to take eltem in three months’ time. Mr Allsworth was a resident of Stratford for some years and is well known in the distnct. Mr T. Trask, of the Hawera railway office stall, met with a painful accident yesterday morning. By some means he slipped on a chip at his home and fell heavily to the ground, breaking his kneecap. He was taken to the hospital (says the Star) and will probably be laid up for some weeks. Bishop Cleary, of Auckland, who is on a motor tour, having come from Auckland by way of Taupe and Wanganui, stayed in Hdwera on Tuesday night as the guest of Dean Power, and left yesterday morning on the return journey by way of New Plymouth and Waikato. Dean Bower accompanied Bishop Cleary as far as New Plymouth, states the Star. Writing under date November 8, a London correspondent sa\m the High Commissioner (the Hon. T. Macken zie) had the formal personal interview with Mrs Mackenzie, he has dined Secretary, this week, and, togetiiei with Mrs aMckenzie, ho has dined with Mr and Mrs Harcourt at thenprivate house in Berkeley Square. Miss Jean Lanrenson, daughter of Mr J. Lanrenson, of the Telegraph office, Stratford, is the dux of the school this year, though only twelve years of age. She has done splendid work throughout, and deserves the reward, viz., a handsome gold Maltese cross with greenstone setting, and suitably inscribed, the gift of the committee.

Paul Pedrini, the ‘equilibrium king,’ writing to Madame Bernard, of His Majesty’s Theatre, Stratford, states that he has just completed a tour of the East, where he has been doing good business, and will be in Stratford on a visit on January 3rd. Pedrini was a pupil of the late S. Bernard, and is now recognised as one of the cleverest uj his profession. The Marquise do Guerry has left £4OOO to the city of Paris to be devoted to the ransom of articles pawned by the very poor whoiare subsequently unable to redeem them. The Marquise was moved to this by once seeing an old couple staring through a pawnshop window at the christening gift of their dead child, for which they had been paying during many years. Mr Reynolds Denniston, the wellknown actor, arrived at Wellington (from Sydney by the Manuka on Wednesday on his way to Dunedin, where Vie intends to rest for a couple of )months. Some months ago, when in Kalgoorlie (W.A.) Mr Denniston was (seized with a serious illness, and complication after complication set in until he was given up by his doctors. The rumour was circulated that Mr Denniston had died, and the actor himself Aelates that a couple of wreaths wore jjjent round to the hotel where he lay ;grimly fighting against a world of odds. The illness has left the heart weak, hut Mr Denniston hopes that a couple of months’ rest in Dunedin will better its condition. Mrs Denniston (known on the stage as Miss Sidney Valentine) .accompanies her husband.

The Queen of Bulgaria, who organised and supervised the hospital arrangements in connection with the war against Turkey, has had an eventful life. She was born in 1860, the daughter of the late Prince Heinrich IV., of Reuss j. L., by his marriage with the Princess Edward of Saxe-Alten-burg, nee Princess of Reties. As she had an energetic nature and a great desire to do some good work in the world, she became a Red Cross sister, and during the Russo-Japanese war she worked amongst the sick and wounded. Her marriage with King Ferdinand took place in 1908, and she has become a most popular Queen and an affectionate step-mother to the King’s children by his former marriage. The two Princesses are helping in the hospital work, though Princess Fudoxic is only in her fifteenth year, while Princess Nadcschda is a year younger.