PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 32, 6 February 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Air Sidney Ward left Stratford by the mail train this morning en route for Australia.

Dr. Steven, who has been granted a month’s holiday leave, was a passenger by the mail train, with Dunedin as his principal destination.

Mr A. C. Ijlevington, of AVhangarei, takes up the editorial pen on the staff of the North Auckland Times in Dargaville, succeeding Mr J. Gordon Delanev.

Miss Kennedy, M.A., of Gore, has notified the Taranaki Education Board that she is unable to take up the position recently offered her on the staff of the Stratford District High School.

Captain Duigan, a New ZealanUer, qualified and has been nominated for a position on the staff of the College at Quetta (British Baluchistan). — Cable.

Mr J. Laurenson, chief clerk, and at present" acting-postmaster, of the Stratford Post Office, has received notice of his immediate transfer to Wellington, to a position in the Chief; Postmaster’s office.

Queen Alexandra’s Christmas gift to Princess Olaf is a motor oar twofifths the size of an ordinary car.i It is'complete in every detail, and| can travel at about three miles an| hour.

The death of Sir Gordon Sprigg, at the age of 83 years is reported from Capetown. He was on several occasions Prime Minister of Cape Colony.

The Prince of Wales, who is now in residence at Oxford TTniversity, is going on a holiday visit to the Kaiser at Potsdam Palace at the end of the present term.

Prince Adelbert, the Kaiser’s third son, is visiting Carlsrube, the capital of Baden, and it is believed that he is bethrothed to the Princess Olga of Cumberland. If this is so, it indicates a reconciliation between the Hobenzollerns and the Cumberlands.

Mrs Lloyd George was presented at 11, Downing street, with a Honitonlace handkerchief of special design, which had been worked by a number of aged Exmouth women who have experienced the benefits of the Old Age Pension Act. One of the actual workers is ninety-two years of age, and some of the roses in the design were worked by a woman only ten years younger.

Evelyn Thaw, the wife of Harry Thaw, the millionaire who is now in a lunatic asylum, has admitted, through her solicitor, that she is penniless, and cannot stand the expense of contesting a suit brought by a firm of jewellers to recover £4OO worth of jewels, which were bought when Thaw was awaiting his second trial for murder. )

Mr A. Mill, telegraph supervisor, Auckland, Mr F. M. Scully, accountant, New Plymouth, and Mr Lewis Anderson, clerk, Dunedin, have been nominated as representatives of the Post and Telegraph Department on the Public Service Appeal Board, which is to bo elected in May. Each of the two main branches of the Department is entitled to return one member of the Board.

Mr George Parker, of Toko, who has been working on the Toko section of the Government railways, has been promoted to be ganger at Waimarine, and will leave for his new sphere on Tuesday next. During the seven or eight years that Mr Parker has been at Toko, he has taken great interest in all local matters, particularly with reference to Oddfellowship and social gatherings, and in this respect, and as a popular citizen, he will be much missed on his departure.

Rev. James Wilson, the New Zealand missioner and evangelistic worker, who during the past nine months (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph), has been engaged in the northern rivers district, has been on 12 months’ leave of absence, granted him by the New Zealand Methodist Conference. Mr Wilson has now applied for an extension of leave, and it is his intention, if it is granted, to spend the time in the temperance cause and work therefore until the local option polls in October. He will then, with his wife, visit England, where he will engage in temperance and evangelistic work. Should Mr Wilson fail to obtain an extension of his present leave he will return to New Zealand.

Dr. Paget was unfortunate enough yesterday, while riding at the Hawera races, to break his left collarbone, and get a nasty shaking. The accident happened through another horse falling in front of his mount. His injuries were attended to by Dr. McDiarmid, and he returned to Stratford by the mail train last evening. The accident occurred in the Mere Mere Hack Pace, about three furlongs from the finish, when Tree Lucerne fell and Lucerne and Lady Gordon a moment later came down also. Both the jockeys, McDonald and O’Shea received a bad shaking, the latter receiving injuries to his head which made his removal to Hawera Hospital advisable. Dr. Paget was able to go to Hawera this morning.