PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 99, 30 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

death of Mr Bernard Quaritieh, the well-known bibliophile, is announced from London.

The friends of Mr W. A. Fiekles, late of Toko, will be sorry to learn he is very seriously ill at New Plymouth.

Mr Fred Pirani was questioned by a press representative after an educational meeting held at Foxton last night as to standing as a candidate 4or the Otaki constituenfcy at the next election. Mr Pirani stated that he was giving the matter favorable consideration.—P.A.

' Mr Oliver Smith died at Georgetown, near Oamaru, last week, at the age of 102 years. He was born in the Shetland Islands, and had been in New Zealand for 37 years. He never had an illness sufficient to make him

atop work for a day, and his faculties were unimpaired right up to the last.

(•Mr Burgoyne, a veteran member of the South Australian House of Assembly, owing to his great age, and the effects of a recent accident, has been permitted,' by resolution of the House, to have a special chair and table near the Speaker's dais.

Mr Allan Hamilton, on the return

to Sydney of. the Hamilton-Plimmer j | .Company from its New Zealand tour on Friday week, retired from the theatrical business, with which he had been connected for more than 30 years. He proposes to leave for England by way of China and Japan early in November, and spend about a year on a holiday abroad.

Mr Richard Lloyd, of Criccieth, the to whom Mr Lloyd George owes Tiis education and start in life, has just entered on his 80th year. He is an unpaid minister of the Disciples' Church at Criccieth, and still preaches, as he has done for 55 years, twice every Sunday.

The Premier of New South Wales (Mr Holman) on the occasion of his

recent visit to Grenfell, was made the recipient of a unique presentation. Grenfell was the first constituency to

return Mr Holman in 1898 to Parliament. The presentation took the flform of a handsome leather-covered cabinet containing in little crystal bowls samples of grain, wool, and gold. In an address which lined the inside of the cover,the donors point out that since 1886 the district has produced gold valued at £1,502,000,

603,000 bales of wool, and 15,800,000 bushels of wheat:"' '' ~"

* Writing of Bishop ' Averill 'before his acceptance of the--Bishopric of Auckland, the Auckland Herald remarked :—Auckland citizens of all denominations can join heartily in the invitation sent by the Anglican Synod to Bishop Averill, of Waiapu, to accept the Bishopric of Auckland. In the neighbouring diocese, where Bishop Averill is loved and" revered as a missionary bishop, as lie was loved and revered■'&' Christchurch as vicar,

canon, and archdeacon, his acceptance of the Auckland invitation would cause widespread regret, but the New Zealand Church as a whole would profit by the' transference of an able and enthusiastic Bishop to the largest and most important diocese in the Dominion. Bishop AverilPs life and experience make the choice of the Synod beyond question a wise one. A preacher, a scholar, a leader, and a worker, Bishop Averill has been for nearly 20 years actively identified with the work of the Anglican Church in New Zealand. If he comes to

Auckland he comes, at the age of 48,

four years' experience in a diocese presenting to its Bishop many of

the problems which have to be faced by the next Bishop of Auckland. The Church and the people of the diocese .■generally will await his decision in i hofthpa Jjjiarc h e may" soon ,be a® wellknown and as much beloved in the Mocks of Auckland as he now is

in the back-blocks of Hawke's Bay