PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 24, 27 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Captain Lampen returns to Strat ford this evening.

Madame Melba will receive £40,000 for an autumn tour m America and Canada, states a London cablegram. Miss Ida Sole, who for many years has been in the Stratford Telephone resigns from the 30th of this month. j

The Rev. Reader and the Rev. Aletson leave on Tuesday week for the hi/ united conference at Wellington or" the Wesleyan and Primitive Alethodist Churches.

Messrs G. F. C. Campbell and W. R." Morris have been appointed members of the Civil Service Officers’ Guarantee Board. Air Campbell sifcceeds Mr J. W. Poynton as a member of the Teachers’ Superannuation Board.

The late Wilbur Wright left estate valued at £89,575. The airman bequeathed £IO,OOO to each of his brothers, Reuchlin and Lorin ; £IO,OOO to his pister, Miss Kate Wright; £2OO to his father, and £33,375 2s 3d to his brother and partner, Orville.

Mr W. J. Newton, A.M.1.E.E., manager an'd engineer of the Stratfoid Electrical Supply Co., left for Hawera this morning. The Hawera Electrical Supply Company and its contractor for the erection of their Diesel engine are in dispute as to whether the contract is or is not completed, and Mr Newton has 'been appointed arbiter.

Mr L. B. Grimstone, who for the past five years has been manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Waitaia, and who has just received promotion by transfer to Eltham, was on Saturday the recipient of a case of silver fish knives and forks, and for Mrs Grimstone a silver-mounted bread board and fruit dish. The Mayor made the presentation on behalf of a number of well-wishers.

Mr N. R. McKenzie, headmaster of the Mount Eden school, Auckland, has been appointed Inspector of Schools at Auckland, to succeed Mr J. Grierson, Who has retired on superannuation. Mr McKenzie is 45 years of age. He has had 22 years’ experience as a teacher, and in November and December of last year was acting-inspector under the Board.

Prince Herman, a former heir to the Grand Dukedom of Saxe-Weimar, who contracted a morganatic marriage with an actress, one of the members of “The Merry Widow” company at Daly’s, has been granted a divorce. The proceedings compelled the Prince to resort to Piccadilly financiers, who, as a result of the advances they made, have been forced into bankruptcy.

The body of the late Mr Hugh R’das, of the Wellington Post Office Savings Bank staff, who died at his residence, Kelburne, last Wednesday, was interred at Karori cemetery on Friday morning. Being a lieutenant in the Post and Telegraph corps, and Having fouight with the First Contingent at Colesburg, New Zealand Hill, Kimberley, and Pretoria, in South Africa, the deceased was accorded a military funeral.

. Miss, Annie Frances Walker, eldest daughter of the late Commissary Thomas Walker of Rhodes, Parramatta river, died at the age of 82 last week at Rhodes, the house in which she was born. Miss Walker lived as a young girl in Tasmania, when her father was commissary there. He founded there another Rhodes. Miss Walker’s choice and unique collection, paintings of more than 1700 specimens of Australian flowers and ferns, from New South Wales and every other State, was bought by the latp Mr David Mitchell, ans is now in the Mitchell Library, in Sydney.

The resignation of Dr. Reginald Copleston, Bishop of Calcutta, on account of ill-health, occurs at a time when great developments in the organisation of the Church in India are contemplated. The removal of tne capital from Calcutta to Delhi will cause a rearrangement of some of the present dioceses, and if, as is expected, a new See of Delhi shoidd be created, it is very probable that it would supplant Calcutta as the seat of the Metropolitan. Dr Copleston was Bishop of Colombo from 1875 to 1902, when he succeeded the present Dean of Manchester at Calcutta, while his successor at Colombo was his brother, Dr. E. A. Copleston.

Mr G. W. Stubbs, late accountant of the Stratford branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co., left this Inorning for Opunake, where he will take up his duties as Agent for the Company. On Saturday evening, the staff gathered to bid him farewell, and presented him with a handsome salad bowl, suitably inscribed. In making the presentation Mr W. A. < Hewitt, manager of the Stratford branch, referred to the long time Mr Stubbs and he had been associated, and said he regretted he was losing the services of an officer so well suited to the branch, but congratulated Mr Stubbs on bis well-deserved promotion. Mr Stubbs suitably replied. Mr Phillips, late stock agent of the Company, then entertained the staff at a small supper, which was very much appreciated by those members present.