PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 13 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. B. Mine, M.P., loft by the mail train this morning for Wanganui en route for Wellington.

Mr Alee Henderson, of “The New i Zealand Scot,” left Stratford this! morning for the South.

Mr D. M. Tomlinson, A.0.5.M., formerly of the Otago School of Mines,

has been appointed genera! manager of the Kapsan Mines, Limited, Northern Korea.

Mr Kwei Chili, now Chinese Consul in New Zealand, has been succeeded at the Chinese Legation in London by Mr Yuan, a nephew of the President of the Republic, Yuan Shih Kai.

Mr A. Sorensen, of Auckland, water-diviner, will be at the Stratford Dairy Factory on Saturday, 17th May. His services will be available while in tho district. Mr Robert McNab ex-M.P., who has been staying for ,a few days in New Plymouth, passed through Stratford this morning on his way to Palmerston North. The Rev. Father Holbrook, of St. Patrick’s, Auckland, was at Constantinople on March 20th. A postcard sent by him to a friend in Auckland states “Most enjoyable trip so far—scarcely a word about any wor to lie had here—everything perfectly quiet.” Mr Charles H. Poole, an ex-member of the New Zealand Legislature, gave a lecture to a large and enthusiastic audience on February 16th, at the Wbitefield’s men’s meeting, on “Modern Emancipations in a new Land.” The London Signal, edited by Mr C. Silvester Horne, M.P., the superintendent of the Whitefield’s men’s meeting, praises Mr Poole’s lectures very highly.

The Bishop of Auckland, accompanied by the Vicar of Inglewood (Rev. C. Houchen) left Stratford this morning for Whangamomona. His Lordship will return from that district at the end of the week, and will then proceed to Inglewood, where he will spend two or three days, afterwards going on to New Plymouth. The Bishop expects to leave Taranaki in about ten days.

Mr James McAllister was this morning elected Chairman of the Stratford Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. In thanking members for the honour, Mr McAllister said that the interests of the Whangamomona County Council, the County Council, and the Borough Council were to him identical. Members were on the Board to look after the interests of' 'the 'patients .first, and cfj the ratepayers and staff second.’ ■ “Wo are,’ 1 ! think,"’he Said, “united in the idea that we are here for the benefit of those who are unfortunate enough to require assistance. And, while,we are doing our best to conserve the interests of the ratepayers as well we are endeavour ing also to take a broad view of mat ters that come under our jurisdiction.’ Messrs. Smith, Sole, and Walter join ed in congratulating the new Chairman on his well-deserved appointment.

As Acting-Minister of Defence, the Hon 11. H. Rhodes has sent the following letter to Captain H. 1). Coutts, of Auckland“ The Prime Minister has sent me your Queen’s Scarf and two South African medals, togethei with a copy of your letter to Mi Sheet. In thanking you on behalf of the Government for these memorials of the South African war, and for tin suggestion that they be deposited it some fitting place for safe keeping, 1 desire to say that the scarf in particular, besides being a reward to yourself for meritorious services, is a very valuable memento of our late Sovereign, Queen Victoria. This being so, I can think of no better place for its safe keeping than in the library of Parliament Buildings, where Already there is a most interesting col Iction of mementos of Queen V ictoria, which was alsd a gift to the Parliament of this Dominion. I shall therefore take steps to have this scaif and the medals so deposited. I once had the pleasure of meeting you in South Africa, where I hear you are about to return, and where I hope luck and success await you.”

Mr Cyril H. Croker, solicitor, for the past eighteen months managing clerk for Mr W. G. Malone, leaves Stratford to-morrow morning for Hastings, to commence, on his own account, the practice of his profession. Mr Croker was farewelled by a few of his Stratford friends last week, when tributes were paid to those sterling qualities which have made him so generally popular in this district, and yesterday ho was presented by Mr Malone, on behalf of the office staff, with a valuable legal text book, as a slight mark of the esteem in which he has been held. As a member of the executive of tho Taranaki Provincial Scottish Society, Mr Croker well-deserved the thanks of the Society, which were bestowed on him last week, when Chief Kennedy stated that they owed him much in tho valuable work he had done gratuitously for tho Society. In addition to being one of tho founders of the Stratford Gyrnastic Club, Mr Croker was an enthusiastic member of the Stratford Golf and Tennis Clubs, in both of which institutions he will be much missed. As a professional man, he has tho esteem of the business men of Stratford, and has already established no small reputation in Court work. Mr Croker carries with him everv good, wish for his future sue—