PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 7 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

i The Hon. W. E, Alausey (Prime l Minister) will remain in Wellington j until Thursday, when he will leave on. | a visit to the Auckland district. Mr Alf. Hansen, of Eltham, will represent Taranaki at the annual conference of delegates from Dominion Athletic Societies. He left yesterday for Blenheim. Lord Roberts, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Haldane and Mr Rothschild have inaugurated a fund to establish, a National Memorial to Sir George White. Mr L. Gri oust one, of the Bank ol Now Zealand, Waitara, on being transferred to Eltham, was presented by the Catholic community with a gold mounted prayer book. Air T. G. Lowe, one of the British tennis quartet, thinks of settling in New Zealand, and, it is reported, he may be going on the land in the south. The late Airs Elizabeth Paul who resided in Park Road, Auckland, was 98 years of age, and leaves live generations of descendants. She came to New Zealand many years ago in the ship Lord Burleigh. The Rev. Reader returned to Stratford on Saturday night, after a short holiday in Motueka. _ Airs, Reader and "family will remain in j Motueka for several weeks longer. | Air K. C. Bruce, a former member! of Parliament and one of the foremost! Scotch orators in the Dominion, is to propose the toast of “Tiie Immortal Alemory of Robert Burns” at the Taranaki Provincial Scottish Society’s Burns’ Dinner, to be held in the Stratford Town Hall on the 21th hist. Herr Von Jagow, Ambassador t< Rome, will succeed the late Hen Kiderli ll- Waechter (states a cablegran from Berlin). He is a friend of tin Kaiser, and a man of high culture, ; reserved diplomatist of polished bear mg, markedly contrasting with hi; predecessor’s. He is of direct methods, and a strong South German. It is known that ho supported the Anglo-Saxon friendship. 4'he Royal Dukedom of Kent may be revived in favour of Prince Arthur oi Connaught, it has been stated. The Dukedom was last borne by his great grandfather, Queen Victoria’s father. It is, of course, one of the oldest titles in the peerage, and has been borne, generally as an Earldom, by the Plantagenets, the Greys, the I) Burghs, and the Hollands. From very early tiroes it was associated wit) Royalty. Colonel Edward Heard, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, has been appointed Chief of the General Stan of the New Zealand Defences in succession to Colonel Robin. Regarding the appointment, the London Trail aays: “Though undecorated, Colone. Head is an up-to-date Staff College officer, having been both instructo; and professor of the Camberley estab lishment. He was with his regimen! in the Hazara campaign in 1888, am served as intelligence officer at Cape Colonv during the Boer War, gettnn mentioned in dispatches for his ser vices.” Lord Saye and Sole, who has beer appointed Comptroller of the King f Household in succession to the Fan of Liverpool, is the fifteenth baron and the twenty-second in descent from the Geoffrey de Saye, who war one of the barons entrusted with the enforcement of Magna Oharta. An other ancestor was dragged out of the Tower by Jack Cade’s Mob, and be headed in Cheapside. The present holder of the title entered the army in 1879, serving in the Zulu war c the same year, and obtained his cap taincy eight years later. The engagement of Aliss Howard the eldest grandchild of Lord Strathcona, to Lieutenant James Bnllci Kitson, of his Alajesty’s ship Kirn Edward VII, is of more than ordinary interest, as her mother, the wife oi Dr. Howard, is Lord Strathcona’s only child, and the heir, by special remamd er, to his peerage. Lord Strathcona who is 92 years of age, is one of the wealthiest men in the world. He i reputed to be worth anything betweer 20 and 40 millions sterlings, so that in the ordinary course of events, Mr; Howard will be the richest woman n England, if not in the world. The Hon. J. R. Sinclair, M.L.C., Airs Sinclair, and Aliss Sinclair were to leave London by the Alaloja, at the end of November, on their return to New Zealand. Air Sinclair will he engaged on the work of the Imperial Trade Commission in New Zealant when it assembles in A*arch and hi will go across with it to Australia where it is expected the eomrnissioi will complete its work .there about tin middle of June. The members wil. then leave for their respective homes and Air Sinclair hopes to be back n his place in the Legislative Conner during a considerable portion oi the session of 1913. The commission will resume its work, in South Africa, about the end of October.