PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1, 2 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Maharajah of Cooch Behar is dying at Cromer j states a London cablegram .

Mr Rockel, of the Wellington Technical School, who has boon appointed Latin Master at the New Plymouth High School, will relinquish his position in Wellington on September 12.

Bishop Crossley, who recently resigned the charge of the Auckland diocese, is still in Australia, and al though he is reported to be, slightly improved in health, he is still much depressed in spirit.

The Rev. W. A. Butler, who has been attending the Anglican Synod in connection with the selection of a successor to Bishop Crossley as Bishop of Auckland, returns to Stratford by this evening’s train.

Mr Philip Skoglund, Stratford’s ToAvn Clerk, who felt somewhat improved in health after his recent short holiday, is, it is regrettable to learn, again incapacitated and confined to his room. His many friends will wish him a speedy recovery.

Sir Joseph Ward yesterday gave a denial to the statement made by the Temuka paper that he was entering into partnership with a well-known South Canterbury public man in the frozen meat business. Sir Joseph Ward said that he had neither con-

sidered nor been asked to enter into any such proposal,.and he had no intention of undertaking any business responsibilities of the kind.

Judge C. D. R. Ward, whose death at Dunedin was reported yesterday, was the son of Sir Henry G. Ward, Governor of Madras, and after completing his education at Oxford he came out to- New Zealand in 1854. He was a member of the House of Representatives for Wellington Country Districts in 1855 and later became a district judge. He was acting judge of the Sureme Court from 1886-9 and was offered a permanent seat on the bench in 1896. He retired in June 1906.

Mr A. W. Budge, at a meeting of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society’s Council last evening was presented, on behalf of members, with a set of pipes in recognition of the interest he has taken in acclimatisation matters, particularly in respect to the care of pheasants imported annually by the Society, and held for some months in Mr Budge’s charge before liberation. The presentation was to have been made at the Society’s annual meeting, but through illness, Mr Budge was not able to be presentThe recipient much appreciated the present made by members.

Sir James Mathew Barrie’s natural pleasure in his new and well-merited honour has been dimmed by a painful incident (states London Opinion). Sir James was an intimate friend of the late Captain Scott, and has been much npset by the receipt of a letter from the explorer,, written after his companions had perished in the tent beside him. One cannot extract from the dramatist the contents of that letter, but it must have, been one of the most tragic documents ever penned; and some day, maybe, it will find its way to the British Musenra.

The death occurred on Wednesday last (says the Waipa Post) at Mangapiko, of Mrs C. Bray, relict of the late Charles Bray, whb for many years was County Engineer in the district. The deceased leaves a family of five sons and five daughters, in the persons of Chas. Bray (Paeroa), W r . Bray (Greymouth), A. Bray (Te Awamutu), N. G. Bray (Feilding), E. R. Bray (Kawhia),' Mrs F. R. Linton (Mangapiko). Mrs E. Foden (Hawera), Mrs A. E. Awdry (Hunterville), Mrs F. A’.vdry (Patumahoe), and Mrs G. Archibald (Te Awamutu).

Mr Tames Taine, a'wonderful old man. in every sense an old identity, is Wellington’s most venerable living pioneers. He is 97 years of age, and looks well and energetic enough for another 20 years of life. Mr Taine, who is now resident in Auckland, was a contemporary of the late Sir John Campbell, Auckland’s “Grand Old Man,” for he arrived in the'Dominion on March 7, 1840. He was born in England a year after the Battle of Waterloo, and has lived in the reigns of six British Sovereigns, and Ids memory is stored with pictures of many strange and exciting happenings afloat and ashore.

Prince Arthur is following the custom of our Royal House, in which the Princes generally, marry rather late and the Princesses early. George TV. married at 33, the Duke of York at 28, William IV. at 53, the Duke of Cumberland at 41, the Duke of Kent at 51, and the Duke of Cambridge at 44, all these being sons of George ITT. With the exception of King Edward, the sons of Queen Victoria married at ages very near that of Prince Arthur. The Duke of Edinburgh married at 29, the Duke of Connaught a few weeks before his 30th birthday, and the Duke of Albany at 29. King George had just missed bio 28th birthday when he married. When Prince Arthur’s marriage takes place there will be four grandsons of Queen Victoria, just as there are now four granddaughters, unmarried. These quartets are the three sons of Princess Henry of Batte.nherg and Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, and Princess Victoria of Wales, Princess Patricia, and Princesses Victoria and Louise Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein. The latter married a member of the Anhalt House, but the alliance was, dissolved to 'Suit q neq- law,