PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 65, 22 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death of Commissioner Kailton, General Booth’s authorised historian, from Loudon.

The funeral of Mr AV. T. Schey, late Director of Labour, was laigcly attended, states a Sydney cablegram.

Mr Pierce C. Freeth, formerly man,W aging editor of the New Zealand f Times, has been appointed editor of the Christchurch Star, and will take up his duties there at the beginning of September.

Mr C. Hall, ex-member for Waipawa, was presented by his Liberal supporters last evening at Dannevirke with a purse of sovereigns and an address, in recognition of his services to the Party in the past 24 years. Several members of the Opposition were present. —P.A.

The birth of a son and heir to Lord and Lady Northland has been the subject of great rejoicing to the Knox family. There was rather a dearth of heirs to the earldom of Ranfurly, as Lord Northland is an only son, and a first cousin once removed. Captain Thomas Granville Knox was next in the line of succession. The arrival of the small masculine stranger was therefore a matter of unusual importance.

The Rev. H. C. Money, one of the Christchurch delegates to the recent Labour Congress, whose remarks during the sitting of the congress attracted some attention, is a• great-nephew of Ernie Edmund Money, of Afghan frontier war fame, whose awful murder at Rawal Pindi in December, 1894, shocked the Empire, and of a more famous hero still, Gerard Noel Money, who commanded the ladder party at Cashmere Gate, Delhi, helped to take Lucknow, and lived to march under Roberts, and to victory at Kandahar. Granville Edmund AValter Money, of Matabel© AVar renown, was also a near relative of the Rev. H. C. Money.

Mr Ames Beaumont, whose death was announced the other day, was undeniably Melbourne’s favorite tenor for very many years indeed, and through several decades no annual performance of “The Messiah” by the Philharmonic Society would have been ’ complete' Without him as the tenor soloist. To the present generation he was known chiefly as an oratorio singer, but, coming as a lad to Australia from Norwich in 1848, he first made his mark 'in opera, 1 appearing under

the maualgenient of W. S. Lyster in 1863. Four years he practically lost his eyesight : through a gun acci’dent whiie blifi quail-shooting, and sub* aequently all Jfiis operatic 1 and oratorio parts, I: 6f which his repertoire comprised no fewer than 76, had to he memorised. In December, 1879, he appeared with Lyster’s Opera Company in “Maritana,” “Bohemian Girl.” “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “Rose of Castillo,” “Faust,” “La Sonnambula,” “Un Ballo in Maschera,” and “Martha.” In February, 1882, he took the part of the Duke in quite a celebrated performance of “Pati- , ence,” in company with Ricardi an: * Alice Rees—the first performance of this opera in New Zealand. He retiled from tiie public platform in 1903.