PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 73, 31 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The interesting announcement is made that on June 11 the Countess of Onslow gave birth to a son and heir, at 24 Old Queen street, Westminster. Lord and Lady Onslow s previous child, a daughter, Lady Mary Onslow, is now about five years of age. The infant son will have the title cf Viscount Cranley. Lady Onslow ia a daughter of the present Lord Poltimore, and her marriage to Lord Cranley took place in 1906.

The following police changes are announced :—Senior Sergeant Rutledge, transfers from Mount Cook, "Wellington, to Auckland, in succession to Senior Sergeant Dart, who goes to Dunedin; Senior Sergeant King transfers from Dunedin to Timaru, and Senior Sergeant Dew, from Westport to Mount Cook. Sergeant Barrett, of Hokitiki, fills the vacancy at Nelson caused by the retirement of Senior Sergeant Darby on superannuation.

The death occurred early yesterday morning of Mr Charles McKillop, a wejll-kuown settler of “Goodlanlds,” near Masterton. The deceased passed away in Wellington in his seventysecond year. The late Mr McKillop, who was a native of County Antrim, Ireland, arrived in Victoria in 1863. Ho then followed the gold rush to the West Coast. Mr McKillop went to Masterton in 1866, but returned to Victoria for seven years, when he married. Mr McKillop then went back to Masterton, and had been farming there ever since.

An interesting event at the beginning of this month was the twentieth anniversary of the marriage of the King and the Queen, w hich was solemnised in the Chapel Royal, St. James’, half an hour after noon on Thursday, July 6, 1893. Ihe passage of time has made heavy inroads upon the congregation of about 15U persons, with Queen Victoria at thenhead, who witnessed-the ceremony, but of the Queens’ ten bridesmaids, all, happily, are still alive. They are Princess Victoria of Wales, Queen Maud of Norway, the Grand Duchess Cyril Vladimirovitch of Russia, the ' Hereditary Princess of Hohenlohe-Langen-burg, Princess Alfonse d’Orleans-Bour-bon, the Crown Princess of Sweden, Princess Patricia of Connaught, Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Queen Victoria Eugenio of Spain, and Princess Louise Aleximdra of Batten berg &

Dr. Crossley, who. Recently resigned the Anglican , bishopric of Auckland, left Brisbane by the Nikko Manx on July 11 for England, via Hong Kong and Singapore. A. few hours before he started he met with a most urtforl tunate accident. In attempting to extinguish a spirit lamp, he ' blcvs some of, the, burning, spirit into his face, and received some severe burns. At first it was feared that his eyesight had been injured, but the specialist who , was summoned announced these fears to be groundless. It wax necessary for the Bishop’s face and eyes to be completely bandaged up, and in this condition he went On hoard the boat. It is, however, satisfrc tory to know that the doctors agree that in *a few days the bandage may he removed without any risk, and that it will not be long before all traces of the mishap will have disappeared. But. coming in his already broken state of health, the occurrence was most unfortunate.