PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11, 13 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Obituary; Sir Frederick Eaton, reports a London cablegram.

Sir William Russell, who has not been well lor some days, is reported to-day to bo seriously m.—Wellington P.A.

The death occurred at Nelson recently of Mr Robert Turner Melhuish, a very old resident there, at the age

v,. ut years

Mr A. A. Scholes,. chairman of the Waitomo County Council, and a wellknown settler of Hangatiki, has decided to otter himself as an Independent candidate for Parliamentary honours at tiie next general election.

Mr William Bateman, says a London cablegram, has been elected president of the British Association for 1914. ,Mr Bateman is Silliman Lecturer at Yale University and director of the Jones Inues Horticultural Institute.

y Sir George Reid has departed for Australia (states a London cablegram). His train left St. Pancras station before he < was aboard.'There was much excitement. The train stopped at the end of the platform. Sir George,had posed for a press photograph on the platform and did not hear the guard’s whistle. Ho nearly fell against the moving train. He was helped aboard, and then found that his daughter and sous were left behind. The train was then stopped.

Mr George Henry Robinson, for 25 years a resident of the Feilding district, died on Tuesday morning at Feilding. He was in his 73rd year, and came to New Zealand from England. Mrs Robinson predeceased her husband by 14 years. A grown-up family of four sons and four daughters survive.

Mr Allan Boyd died his residence at North Taieri last we eh in his ninetieth year. Deceased, with his brother John, arrived from Argyllshire, Scotland, in the ship Mooltan, on Christmas Day, 1849, and very shortly afterwards took up his residence in tin North Taieri, John died a few years ago, also aged about 90. Another brother (Alexander) passed away at Hindon about 12 months ago, when close on a hundred years of age.

Archbishop O’Shea, ;ybo is making his first visit to Tatanaki, arrives from Wellington' by to-night’s mail train. To-morrow he conducts a confirmation i service,, and on Monday evening at the Town Hall he. yyill be jtenr dered a public reception, for-which an excellent musical programme has been prepared.

A quiet, pretty wedding took place in the Methodist Church, Broadway, on Thursday, September 4th, win Miss,(Alice Montrose Wade, third

daughter of Mr J. Wade, of Stratford

was married to Mr Lewis Henry Neal r eldest son of Mr J. Neal, also o'

Stratford, The bride, who was given away by her brother-in-law, Mr LeoRogers, was prettily attired in a simple dress of white tussore silttrimmed with silk all-over lace and insertion. She also wore the usual veil

and orange blossom. The bridesmaids, X Corrie Wade and' Miss Agnes Crossan, looked exceedingly pretty in dresses of cream silk and large cream hats, trimmed with a wreath of pale pink roses. They also wore-gold-mounted tusk brooches, with initials engraved, the gift of the bridegroom. Little Miss Jean Rogers, neice of the bride, acted as flower girl, and looked dainty in a long dress of pale green chrystaline and a lit-

tie lace Juliet cap. She also carried a basket of pale pink camelias. Master Donald Rogers was page hoy, and carried a crook. The bridegroom was attended by his brother, Mr Charlie Neal, as best man. After the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. Btindy, the guests, numbering about 70, adjourned to “Rosebank,” the residence of the bride’s parents, w]mre afternoon tea was partaken of. and the ’usual toasts honored. The happy couple left by motor en route for New Plymoiith.