PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 61, 17 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Inspectors Whetter and Balluntyne are paying a surprise visit to the Stratford School to-day.

The Bishop of Lichfield (Rt. Rev. Hon. Augustus Logge, D.D.) died suddenly, states a London cablegram, aetat 74.

Dr. Pdmaro (representative of the Maori Race in the Cabinet) is at present on a visit to New Plymouth. His mother, who is living in New Plymouth is in a serious condition, says the News.

Dr. H. B. Leatham (New Plymouth) with Mrs Leatham and daughters, left for Wellington this morning, en route for the Old Country and Europe, expecting to be away over a year.

Mr Alec Henderson left this morning for Wellington preparatory to taking up his duties on the staff of the New Zealand Scot. Mr Henderson will return to Stratford shortly for the annual meeting of the Taranaki Provincial Scottish Society.

The Duke and Duchess of Connaught will return to England from Canada shortly (says the London Times of February 24th). The Duke will go back to the dominion about the end of April and the Duchess as soon as her health permits.

The death is announced of William Hale White, who, under the pseudonym of “Mark Rutherford,” published the “Autobiography'of Mark Rutherford,” “Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance,”“Miriam’s Schooling,” “The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane,” “Clara Hopegood,” “Pages from a Journal,” and other works.

The Hou. F. M. B. Fisher is still confined to his house with a slight attack of pleurisy (says Saturday’s New Zealand Times), and, owing to medical instructions, will be unable, to leave for South this evening. Hi hopes, however, to get away, en route to Melbourne, some time next week.

Mr Richard Olney, says a Boston message, has been offered the British Ambassadorship, but has declined the honour, without stating his reason. Mr Olney is a lawyer and a politician, having been Attorney-Gen-eral in 1893. One of his appointments was Secretary of State for the United States.

Mr C. J. McKenzie, resident engineer at Stratford, left this morning for the Main Trunk line on official business. At the end of this month, Mr McKenzie proceeds to Wellington, where he takes up the duties of Inspecting Engineer to the Public Works Department, relieving Mr F. W. Furkert, who leaves on the 28th inst. on an extended visit to England and the United States.

Mrs Cornwallis-West, better knoivn as Lady Randolph Churchill, the mother of Mr Winston Churchill, avJio in 1960 married Mr Cornwallis-West, who is younger than her own son, has applied for and obtained in the Divorce Court a restitution of conjugal rights. Mrs CornAvallis-West, though over 60 years of age, is still a most attractive woman, and highly accomplished.

Messrs Ward, Lock and Co., of London and Melbourne, have accepted the first story of a neiv Australian authoress, Miss Vera Divyer, of North Sydney. It Avill be entitled “With Beating Wings,” and Mr W. Steele, the publisher’s representative has arranged for the inclusion of the volume in their favourite Australian gift books uniform Avith the works of Ethel Turner, Lilian Turner and Mary Grant Bruce.

Mr and Mrs N, Fulton intend leaving Stratford at the end of this month on an extended trip to Canada and the Old Country. They leave Auckland by the Makura, on April 11th, en route for Vancouver, and, after visiting Canada and part of the States, will sail for England. Mr Fulton has six months’ leave of absence and will be back in Stratford in time for the busy season in the Spring. If time allows, Mr Fulton will visit Jersey and Denmark. The popular inspector should have a lot of interesting information to tell the dairy farmers when he returns.

Australia’s commercial representative at Neuchatel, in Switzerland, has forwarded Australia’s and Sir George Reid’s message of condolence, also the details of the tragedy, to the father of Dr. Xavier Hertz, who was with Dr. Mawson and was killed in Antarctic (says a cablegram to the Sydney Sun). The elder Mertz is living at Basle. He replied: “The Australian Government’s sympathy is a comfort to me in these sad hours. I am grateful for the exhaustive account, and desirous of receiving my son’s personal papers.”