PERSONAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 97, 28 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr Ehyood Mead has resigned the chair at the Water,Supply Commission, Melbourne, having accepted a position in California. Mr H. H. Ward has received wore of his appointmnet as classical master to the Napier Boyj’ High School. Ho commences his new^ duties at the beginning of the September term.

Sir F. Cartwright, British Ambassador at Vienna, is retiring. Sir M. De Bunsen, Ambassador at Madrid, will succeed him.- Sir A. Hardinge Ambassador at Lisbon, will succeed Sir M. de Bunsen.

Miss M. C. McKay, assistant at Midhirst; Mr J. Wilson, headmaster at Egmont Village; and Miss M. Mouatt, headmistress at Uruti, have resigned from the service of the Taranaki Education Board.

Sir Joseph Ward has been awarded a silver medal by the Royal Society of Arts tor a paper contributed to a meeting of the Society when in London on “New Zealand as a Peace Residence,” states a Press Association message from Wellington.

The following have been appointed commissioners, to inquire into the past administration of the Westport Harbor Board, 'and make recommendations regarding its future policy; Mr J. S. Evans, Magistrate (chairman), and Messrs Win. Ferguson and Gerald Fitzgerald.—P.A.

At tho annual meeting of the New Zealand Society of Accountants •in Wellington last night, Mr Peter Barr, presiding, Messrs A. T. Clai'ke (Wellington), Mr E. Best (Canterbury*), Mr Green (Otago), I’. C. Leary (Southland), and L. M. Montpath (Taranaki), were re-elected members of tho Council, and Mr H. C. Tewsley (Auckland) was elected unopposed.

The Prince of Wales, is probably the first actual Heir-Apparent to serve With a volunteer force under canvas as a private. The only similar case is that of the Duke of Clarence at the beginning of the nineteenth century. At the time of the Napoleon scare the Duke joined the Teddington volunteers, and carried a musket in the ranks. But lie was not then heir to the throne (says the Pall Mall Gazette), which he occupied eventually as William IV.

Earl Spencer, on whopi the Garter has been conferred, will long be remembered in the House of Commons for two,things. As “Bobby Spencer, 1 ' he had the reputation of being the best dressed i man in the House, i and he once' convulsed the members by his solemn declaration, “I am not an agricultural laborer,” a saying ol which the piquancy was enhanced by his immaculate costume. For many years he acted as Lord Chamberlain, being created Viscount Althorp on his appointment. >

Constable T. J. Liston, of Te Wera, was manned at St. Joseph’s Church, New Plymouth, yesterday morning, to Miss Ann (Girlie) Golding, of New Plymouth. The Rev. Dean McKenna performed the ceremony, after which the wedding guests were entertained at Messrs May and Arrowsith’s. Mr and Mrs Liston, who were the recipients of a number of handsome wedding presents, left for the south by the 12.50 train, carrying with them the good wishes of a large circle of friends. As they passed through Stratford they we,re greeted by a number of friends, a good deal of confetti being in evidence.

Lord Emmott and Mr W. Crooks, M.P. for Woolwich, came on ahead of the rest of the English Parliamentary Party, who arrive to-day (states a Wellington Press Association wire.) Lord Emmott conferred with the Premier (Mr Massey) and Mr J. Allen or matters of Imperial Policy. Mr Crooks, in. an interview, said they had had a very good time in Auckland, which he likened to a Garden City. He had been listening to the debate in the House on naval matters, and could not help thinking that M.P.’s. in London and Wellington were actuated largely by the same sentiment.

The friends of Mr T. Larnason and Mrs C. H. Lawn, of this town will regret to learn of the death of their mother, which took place at Hawera on Tuesday, The late Mrs Larnason was ip good health until about a month ago, when she took ill and passed away as above stated. ( Three sons—Mr Thomas Larnason" (Stratford), Mr Robert Larnason (Public Works Department, Tauranga), Mr William Larnason (Hawera), and four daughters—Mrs Stentiford (Adelaide), Mrs C, H. Lawn (Stratford), and two un-married—-survive her. The interment is taking place at Hawera to-day.