PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Charles Raynor has been selected as the Tasmanian Rhodes scholar for 1913. Dr Hudson, an “old boy” of the Stratford School; is at present on i. visit to his old home, Stratford. Mr Clement L. Wragge, the meteorologist, returned to New Zealand by the Victoria from Sydney. Sir G. H. Reid proposes to visit Vienna, Berlin, and Paris in connection with the extension of Australian trade, on the Continent. Mr W. Potter, Minister of PublicWorks in Western Australia, is expected to pay a visit shortly to Eltham. As a lad he was well known in Eltham, being a son of Mr Thomas Potter, of Eltham, says the Argus. Rev. Dr. Armand and Mrs Armand who have had many years’ experience as missionaries in the New Hebrides;, arrived in Sydney on Saturday, 21s; inst. by the Mokambo. Rev. Pater son, of the Presbyterian mission at Malo, New Hebrides, and Mrs Pater son were also passengers. Mr William Todd, a well-known auctioneer, has died, aged 70. Mi Todd arrived in Invercargill in 186.'. and was licensed as an auctioneer bj the'‘Provincial Council in 1865. H took part in the West Coast rush, for three successive years he ha: Mayor of Hokitika. He also occu pied the position of Provincial Treas urer there. ' Mr Llovd George, wearing, the black and gold‘robes of his office, presided in the Lord Chief Justice’s Court or. 12th November at the nomination o the sheriffs for England, and Wales and was greatly amused at the efforts of the King’s Remembrancer and the Judges to pronounce some of the Welsh names. Mrs Lloyd George sat in a jury box and listened to the proceedings. Mr Jus. Bryce, in resigning his pest of British Ambassador at Washington, resigns also £IO,OOO a year a sum which probably gave rise tc gala’s phrase concerning special correspondents, that they'have the “sal- 1 ' arv of an ambassador.” On tne other hand, the late Mr Whitelav Reid had to represent the United States, in London, on a salary of £3500. Mr Reid’s predecessor, Mi Choate, used to declare that £IO,OOO would scarcely cover the expenses o. the office. The walking-stick General ‘ Booth used on the last walk he ever took has a little history of its own. At a meeting in Paris some time ago t notorious Russian anarchist was converted by the General’s eloquence, anc soon after the latteFs return to England he received from his convert ?. piece of string with the request that a knot might be tied in-it to show the length of the walking-stick the General usually carried. The strmg was knotted accordingly, and returnee to Paris, and a little later'this stick arrived in London, a present from the gratbful convert an<k the yqrk off hie own hands. U|jji Dr. Truby King-' lefii j Christchurch for Seacliff on Thursday (says tht Lyttelton Times); after having brought to an end his campaign on behalf o'. the Society for the Health of Women and Children. During tne five month; the campaign .was conducted he, vyiti Mrs King, visited many parts of New Zealand, lecturing in the centres o! population and consulting with residents interested in the movement Before leaving for the south, Dr. King said that he was highly gratified at the success of the campaign, which he was satisfied, ivould have good re suits. It is proposed to hold ado minion confM’AiMs •df bi*a)fshes of thi society in Christchurch in March. The Bishop of Nelson; has accepted for service a tutor at Bishopdale Col lege the Rev. John Achilles Rogers 8.A., of Trinity College, s .Dublin. Tht new tutor comes with a ‘great recorc (says the Mail). *He entered Trinit; College as a Sizar in 1906, and obtained the prizes for Hebrew anc Syrian languages and classics. H< won the Reid Exhibition. (£250) ii Hebrew' and Classics, and the Wal Scholarship (£100) in Hebrew 7 , dial dee and Syriac. He also obtainec the prizes in Senior Classics, and th< Salmon and Butche Exhibitions. He took the B.A. and Divinity Testi monium in 1910, w 7 as ordained deacoi in 1910, and priest in 1911 by the Bishop of Kilnto.re. Mr Rogers who is twenty-five years of age, is a J present curate of Stradome, Co. Cavan, Ireland. He is expected in Nelson on or about March Ist.

Mr Gavin Hamilton, private secretary to Lord Liverpool, is the young ost son of the late Sir Robert Hamilton, who was Governor of Tasmania from 1887-1893. Mr Hamilton spent his early childhood in Dublin, when his father resid.ed, he being at that time Under-Secretary lor Ireland. On Sir Robert’s appointment as Governor of Tasmania, Mr Hamilton accompanied his father and spent six years in the colony. Mr Hamilton war educated at Bradford College, Berks whence he entered the Bank of England, and was in the accountant’s department for several years. In 1907 he was appointed assistant chamberlain and assistant private secretary to, the Ear] of Aberdeen, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, where he served under Lord Liverpool, who war at that time State Steward and Chamberlain at the Irish Court. Mr Hamilton has only recently resigned hit office of vice-chamberlain in Dublin, on his appointment as private secre tary to Lord Liverpool. Mr Hamil ton’s sister, Mrs Theyre Wei gall, of Melbourne, is at present visiting England.

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