PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 19 February 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Primate has departed on a short visit to England, states a Sydney cablegram.

The death of Mr Louis Becke, the well-known Australian novelist, is announced.

Miss Lily Pain, a New Zealander, has gained the distinction of becoming the first Licentiate in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

Mr .Bowring, the Newfoundland representative on the Empire Trade Commission, is a passenger by the Otranto (says a cable from Fremantle) and joins his colleagues in New Zealand.

Mr J. Robertson, M.P. for Otaki, who has been spending a hoimay or. the heights in the King Country, or. account of ill-health, is said to be much better, and returns home this week.

Mr R. C. Esse, manager of the Waverley branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has received notice of transfer to the Inglewood branch to succeed Mr J. H. Rowe, who goes tc Oamaru. Mr Christie, of Napier, succeeds Mr Esse at Waverley.

Miss Jessie Gordon has been ap pointed to the staff of the Stratford High School in lieu of Miss Kennedy, who reported that she would not take up the duties. Miss Gordon will commence work on the first day of March.

A fellow officer with Captain Oates in the Inniskilling Dragoons says “He was the most stalwart man and the best officer I ever knew. Hr got more out of his men than any other. He was clever beyond the ordinary, great geologist, and nothing was too hard for him to do.”— Sydney cablegram.

Mrs Cocks, a lady of 92, mother of the Lord Mayor of Sydney, received a courtesy call at her residence, Richmond, Victoria, one morning recently from Sir James Graham, Sir Allen Taylor (both past holders of the civic office of Lord Mayor of Sydney), and the Lord Mayor, Mrs Cocks takes a keen interest in all newspaper reports of her son’s civic career.

“Papa” Kolin, of Lucerne, if what would be called in England a sportsman (says the Evening Standard). Ho is 85, and he lias just made a flight in an aeroplane. Before doing so, and firmly convinced that he would never return alive, ho made his will, bade his friends adieu, and bought them farewell drinks. Then he sought the aviator Ingold, who is now taking passengers on his flights at Lucerne, at a fixed tariff. For ten glorious minutes Papa Kolin saw from a height of 600 ft. entirely new aspects of bis old Pilatus, Rigi, anti the lakes, and then returned, to his surprise, safe to Lucerne. “This,” he said with emotion, to the friends who clustered round him, “is life’s last sensation” ; and over his hock at his favourite cafe he repeated again and again; “I have indeed lived.”