PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 60, 13 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The health of the Pope is improving, though he is still w,eak, states a cablegram from Rome this morning. Under the will of the late Mr Thomas X. Wilson, of Dunedin, insurance broker, one-tenth of the estate is given to tho Salvation Army. , The Prince of Males will visit Oermany incognito and bo the guest of the King at Wurtemburg. Sir Squire Bancroft has read Dickens’s “Christmas Carol” publicly fifty times, and has devoted £20,000 of the proceeds to charities. Tho death has taken place of Viscount Tredegar, at the age of 83. V iscount Tredegar was a captain in the 17th Lancers in tho Crimean war, and rode in the Balaclava charge.

The Kaiser’s private fortune is £7,400,000, on which he pays war tax. Tho Duke of Saxe Altenburg’s taxable fortune is £3,000,000. The Kaiser s is fifth on the list of great estates laid under contribution. Mr C. VV. Palmer, secretary of the Wellington Navy League, has had the special service decoration c c the League conferred on him after nine years' service.—P.A. wire. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward anc Miss Ward haue exchanged the bustleof the Hotel Cecil for the calmer atmosphere of Whitehall Court (writes a London correspondent), and there they propose to remain for the next month at all events. Master Pat Ward is now a student of Downside College, near Bath. The Rev. Canon Carrington has been appointed Dean of Christchurch, v ( ice Dean Harper resigned. The ap takes effect from April lOtl the date where Dean Harper’s resig nation takes effect.

Professor Harold A. Woodruff, win succeeds Dr. Gilruth (now' Adminis trator of the Northern Territory) ir; the Chair of Veterinary Science al Melbourne University, arrived in Mel bourne on February 24. The new professor is 36 years of age, and looks even younger.

The King gave audience to Mr Scad den, Premier of West Australia (state; a London mesage to-day), and discuss ed familiarly West Australia’s rapic progress. On Mr Scadden’ taking hi: departure the King said: ‘Tell you: people on your return that I am deep ly interested in their vast country. I wish you and its people every sue cess.”

Mr H. S. Harris, who has purchased Mr “Bert” Burgess’ boot business in Stratford, and takes up his residence here at Easter time, is wellknown in the Wanganui and Mail Trunk districts as an enthusiasts supporter of athletics. For some years he has been a prominent Oddfellow, talcing a great interest in tin social side of friendly society work. He is, ip addition, a hockey player ol repute, and as captain of his local club succeeded in winning the Main Trunk Shield. Mr Harris should be welcomed to Stratford.

Dr. Truby King, superintendent ol the Seacliff Mental Asylum, will leave next month on a visit to England. Ii London ho will attend a conference on -infant mortality which has beei convened by the National Associatior for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and for the Welfare of Infancy. Tlx conference, which will sit on August 4 and 5, will be attended by represen tatives from various parts of the Eng lish-speaking world. Dr. Truby Kim will bo absent from New Zealand foi eight or ten months.

Nurse Sutherland, of the Chalet Hospital, Dunedin, who reprdsentec the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ As sodation at the Internationai'Congres; of nurses in Germany, returned tc Dunedin on Thursday after a year’s travel, during which time she has circled the globe and visited mam hospitals in Great Britain and Canada and also in the States. She has come back with the impression that the New Zealand standard of nurs ing is in many cases higher than that of other countries, and compares favourably with any of them. She found the Canadian nurses very much interested in the work that is being done in New Zealand. They were anxi ous to hear as much about this country as possible. They said they had always admired this country from afar and they were pleased to hear more about it from one who had come such a long distance.