PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 3 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Harry Thompson, starter at the Stratford Races, left by the mail train this morning for Christchurch. The Sultan of Turkey, Mohammed V., born in 1844, succeeded to the throne on the deposition of Abdul Hamid in 1909. He is the thirty-fifth sovereign of the Ottoman dynasty. The Hon. E. Mitchelson, who is now recovering from a protracted anc. severe illness, has decided to take i tour of Britain and the Continent, which will extend over a period of nine months. Mr Mitchelson will depart on the 14th March next.

Bishop Wallis, the late Bishop of Wellington, who resigned his New Zealand charge on account of illhealth, has now decided to relinquish the Archdeaconry of Wilts for the same reason.

The Rev. Walter Dunkley, vicar ol Glenmark, died suddenly on Sunday morning, aged 62 (states a Press As -sedation message from Christchurch). He was for many years Precentor oi , Christchurch Cathedral, and was f I prominent Freemason. Mr Dunkley returned quite recently from a visit , to England. j The Grand Duke Michael (stater <• 1 cablegram from St. Petersburg), win refused to annul his morganatic marriage with a view to his succession tt the throne, has been removed fronr the command of the Chevaliers ot the Guard, and given eleven months' leave. Mr W. H. Vereker Bindon, head master of the Manaia school, har passed away, aged 60. Deceased was the first inspector under the Wanga nui Education Board, but fading health compelled him to relinquish hit position as inspector some years ago and he took up the lighter duties o teaching.—P.A. Mr Pigott, Waitara, kindly undertook the judge’s duties for Mr J• it. L. Stanford at the Stratford meeting in the hurdle race on each day, Ber cola, Mr Stanford’s nomination competing in both events. _ Mr 1 igo t had the pleasure of hoisting the num her of hie brother judge’s horse ai • first past the post on both occasions. Michael McCarthy, aged 101, diet at Gore on the last day of the ok. veaf He went to Tasmania in the forties and later on to Otago and worked at Moa Flat. He opened an hotel at Dumbarton Rock, which vat the first township in the Teviot district, when the Molyneux gold iush took place. He was one of the first settlers in the Henot Hundred, a riving there about 1876. His place was close to Edievale railway station. He farmed for many years and then retired Of late years he had resided at G f ore The late Mr McCarthy was a prominent figure at the Tuapeka jubilee celebrations. Lord Strathcona, Canada’s ex-High Commissioner, is 92 years of ago, amis still hard at work. “I have not •smoked for the last seventy yeais, and I do not believe in smoking, he'said recently. “1 certainly think that people eat too much, and that i may be injurious for them to do bo. For many years I have only had tv meals’ a’day breakfast and d.nne.Doctors will tell you that it is not enough hut it has been enough foi me I eat very little meat, practically none, and the diet agrees with me y Exercise is decidedly a most important factor of good health anc longevity, and I have a great deal o correspondence to go through, an cannot always W tbo t.me to sUoll md walks. As for sleep, I make i point of not deeping longer than six ,hours. a day.” _