PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 100, 23 December 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr Walter Penn, Editor of the Taranaki Herald, was among the visitors who attended the social tendered to Mr F. W. Webster, at Stratford on Saturday night. Miss Bertha Gredig, of Stratford, j was married to Mr. Arthur Fairfax Ensor, of Lovuka, Fiji, at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford, on Saturday! morning. The Rev. W. A. Butler officiated. After touring the North Is-; land Mr. and Mrs. Fairfax Ensor will! leave in about three weeks’ time for, their home in the Islands.

Mr. Janies H. Stevens, Inspector of Post Offices, has decided to retire from the service on March 31st, and has been granted three mouths’ leave from Ist January. Mr. Stevens has arranged to take up work of a special nature for a mercantile firm. Press Association.

Constable Wade, who was shot^ during the fighting at the Miners’ Union Hall on the 12th November, left Waihi for Auckland on Friday morning, en route to Whitford, where his parents reside. He will be examined when in Auckland by the police surgeon. On Thursday evening be was presented with a dressing-case, travelling rug, and umbrella, by Mr. Martin, on behalf of the members of the new union. The Rev. R. J.. Hall, of Auckland, was the recipient of a gold watch and and easy chair from a largo an enthusiastic meeting of Irishmen on Thursday afternoon, as tokens of esteem and affection, because of his able and whole-hearted advocacy cf Home Rule for Ireland since his arrival in Auckland. Mr. Hall replied in very feeling terms, pointing out that while the religious denomination to which he belonged was . more diametrically unlike that of tlie Church of Rome than any other, yet such difference did not, either here or anywhere else, exercise any influence in disturbing the good feeling between him and his fellowcountrymen. Mr. Sheahan made the presentations (says the ‘Star’), the inscription on the watch reading: “Presented to the Rev. R. J. Hall, M.A., in token of friendship and esteem, from his Irish Nationalist friends, Auckland, N.Z., December, 1912.” On the easy chair was a shamrock trefoil engraved as follows: “Presented to tho Rev. R. J. Hall, M.A., from his Irish Nationalist friends, Auckland, N.Z., .December, 1912.” Alexander Barron, the lad who showed conspicuous bravery in rescuing a little boy named Edward Dyer fiom almost certain death on the railway line near Titirangi a month ago, received several presentations at the breaking-up ceremony at New Lynn on Thursday (says the ‘Star’). The following illuminated address, signed by he headmaster of the school, the chairman of the New Lynn Town Board, the chairman of the School Committee, and six pupils representing the six standards in the school, was presented: “Alexander Barron, a pupil of tho New Lynn School, —Your school-fel-lows, teachers and friends recognise with great appreciation your heroic and successful efforts in rescuing jour little school-mate, Edward Dyer, aged six, from what must have been certain death. When tho Helensville down train approached the railway viaduct above the Titirangi Road on Tuesday, November 19, 1912, and you saw Edward on the line, you unhesitatingly rushed on to the viaduct and jumped clear with him just as the train reached the spot. We wish you to accept this testimonial and accompanying presents as mementoes of your true British pluck.” Some unknown well-wish-ers presented the lad with a silver watch, with the following inscription: “Alexander Barron, for bravery, December, 1912.—From a few admirers.” The children of the school also presented a volume of “The Bovs’ Own Annual,” and Mr. J. Bollard, M.P., forwarded a cheque for one guinea.