PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 64, 21 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

fessrs Tate and Barnsley, of Rowhavo disposed of thou- farm and m for a trip to the Old intry.

>rince Arthur of Connaught 18 ationed as likely to succeed Ins ber as Governor-General of Can- » states a London cablegram.

Eda Cunningham, Stevenson's rse KJummy," immortalised in "A ild' aßardcn of Verses," has died at the age of ninety.

KKfWilliam Clarke, Consul in Sydy for Portugal, died suddenly aboard b Mataram. He had just arrived ,m a health trip to New Guinea ites a Sydney cablegram.

Mr J. S. Connett and Mr H. tey, M.P., will act as delegates >m the Taranaki Agricultural Socieat the Agricultural Societies' Confence, which opens in Wellington on e 30th inst. The Egmont associion wLU he represented by its secrery, llln F. G. Treweek.

Lord Wemyss, at 94, is perhaps the p ß t astonishing of the Old Guard, lich, like Napoleon's veteran corps ay die, but never surrenders. At I he could produce a fine piece of statiry; at 92 he could play an excellent ime of golf and drive his own motor 1 Born three years after the bata of Waterloo, for a long spell of he has been, in a way, a modern ;on Quixote, but he still preserves road cosmopolitan sympathies.

Sir George Wombwell, one of the ) W surviving officers who came back •om Balaclava, is, despite his 80 ears, making good progress from the peration which he recently underlet. Few of his brother baronets ave ffeld their titles for so : long a eriod as Sir George, for he succeeded | father in 1855; though this record I well beaten by Sir John Ramsden, rho became fifth baronet on the death If his grandfather 74 years ago.

Mr 0. W. Jago, who has been a esident of the Tuna district for about hirty years was honored by a big lathering of settlers last Thursday vening. An attractive programme of ongs, recitations and instrumental terns was gone through, and at its onclusion the real business of the vening was gone on with, viz., 8 Presentation. This was made by Mr V. Hathaway, chairman of the Strat>rd County Council, and took the for f an enlarged photograph of himself p Mr Jago and a silver teapot and ream jug to Mrs Jago. Mr. Hath way's eulogistic remarks, regarding jhe guest of the evening were endorser 1 iy Messrs C. Goodwin, Auld and R Ifasters, Mr Jago suitably replying. % Jago will take up his; l Flint Road, Stratford, but before bing so will take a trip to Rotorua or the benefit of his health.