PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 89, 22 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Ex-King Manuel, of Portugal (states a Beilin cablegram), is bethrothed to Augustine Victoria, daughter of Prince William, of Hohenzollern.

Past Provincial Grand Master C. D. Sole, of the Loyal Stratford Lodge of Oddfellows, pvas last evening presented by members with a handsome gold albert, in recognition of bis long and sterling service to the Lodge as secretary.

Mr W. McLaughlin Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy, and family will shortly take up their residence in Stratford. They will be missed “out East,” but the Taranaki Provincial Scottish Society will benefit by having their popular Chief nearer headquarters.

Mr Felix McGuire, ex-M.P., is to be entertained by his former constituents at Hawera on the 30th inst.

Sir Charles D. Rose, Liberal member for Newmarket, died suddenly in a motor car after making an aeroplane ascent, states a London cablegram.

Miss Gertrude Burke, M.A., has been appointed by the Commonwealth Government as Australian delegate to the Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, to be held at Buda Pesth in June.

Mr Sid. Bernard, of His Majesty’s Pictures, proceeds to Auckland by the Rarawa this evening for the purpose of securing the latest orchestra! music for the pictures. He will he absent for about a fortnight, ahd his place will be filled by Mr H. Burmester, the well-known local cornetist.

Mr Leonard Watson, who was for three years at the Mangoref Dairy Company’s Central factory, has been appointed manager to the viunnedah Dairy Company, Ltd., New South Wales. He was assistant, under Mr T. H. Robinson, the present manager of the Mangorei Factory, and his success is duo in no small way (says the News) to the splendid schooling and training he received while under him.

The death of Captain M. N. Bower, at the age of 87, is reported from Napier. Deceased was trained at the Woolwich Military Academy, and afterwards served in the 13th Light Dragoons. He saw considerable service in the Maori War, and was appointed Town Clerk of Napier in 1874, a position which he held until a few years ago, when failing health necessitated his retirement. —P.A.

Mr James Mulvey, of the telegraph office staff at Invercargill, who has been transferred to Stratford as chiei clerk, was the recipient of severe presentations (states a Press Association message)'. The Irish Athletu Society o£<': which he is president, presented him with a silvei afternoon tea set and a photograph of the directors. The South Island Rugby Union handed him two silver fruit stands, and the Post and Telegraph staff a case of cutlery and a hot water j"g-

The Rev. J. R. Wilford, vicar of Prebbleton, has been appointed principal of College House, Christ’s College, in succession to Dean Carrington, and will take up his duties next term. Mr Wilford was educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, and obtained his honors, and his B.D. degree at Trinity, B.A. degree in 1899, with theological College, Cambridge, in 1900. After coming out to New Zealand, he was appointed vicar of Prebbleton and Templeton in 1907, and in 1910 ho was elected a member of and examiner for the New Zealand Board of Theological Studies, and was a member of the Diocesan Mission Council in 1911.

Captain F. H. Dampen, Adjutant of the 11th Regiment, and since the inception of the Territorial scheme in New Zealand, one of the most able officers in responsible positions in the whole of the Dominion, has been ottered and accepted an appointment in connection with the Imperial Territorial scheme, and will probably leave New Zealand for'his headquarters at Aldershot very shortly. Captain Lampcn is at present with the 11th Regiment at Oringi, and just before leaving for the training camp had been promoted to the charge of the Nelson district. The selection of Captain Dampen for this English appointment is certainly a recognition of his ability in this special branch of military work.

Lady Denman, wife of the GovernorGeneral, visited the Healesvillo district of Victoria the other day, and planted oaks raised from acorns sent from England by Queen Mary. The oaks were planted at Pernshaw, where her Majesty, as Duchess of York, lunched, in 1901. Lady Denman rode in the same drag in which the present Queen drove about the district. Captain Halsey, of H.M.S. New Zealand, was on Friday made the recipient of an interesting piece of greenstone from Te Hen Hen, the well-known Maori chief. The specimen—a Kuritangiwai—was said to be much prized on account of its antiquity. At the presentation several Maori chiefs were introduced to captain Halsey. The latter said that the gift would be treasured in his family as an heirloom.