Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 71, 24 November 1913, Page 5

Personal.

There are many reports of Viscount Hardinge, Viceroy of India, resigning at the "New Year on account of illhealth, states a cablegram from Bomhay. Lord Kitchener is likely to succeed. The new Earl of Nelson has become a member of the Roman Catholic Church,- and has closed the ancient Anglican Church at Standlynch on the ground that it belongs to the family estate. (London cablegram). The Rev. Thomas .Ghent, curate of St. Andrew's Church, Stockwell, mentioned in cablegrams with regard to the libel action., was at one time resi-dent-in Otago, being for two years clergyman at Clyde. He* is described as being a peculiar, hot-headed man. Eventually he made exchange with a minister in iVcetoria and left the Dominion. Mr Hiram Horton, an expert "kinecolor photographer, who is on the staff of the Charles Urban Company, and who went to India to take moving colored 1 pictures of the Durbar, left London by the Orama on October 9 for New Zealand, to take a series of industrial. Maori, rural and civic scenes, under the auspices of the New Zealand Government. Mr Urban intends to have the films specially exhibited throughout the world.

Word was received in Stratford today that Dr. T. L. Paget successfully underwent an operation in Auckland on Wednesday last, and is. making rapid progress towards recovery. He fully expects to be able to return to Stratford in a week's time, and will probably arrive here next Monday morning. Owing to extensive injury to the muscles of the arm and chest, caused at the time he fractured his collar-bone about a year ago, Dr. Savage found it necessary to make an important operation, and this has been performed with the most complete satisfaction, friends will be dad to learn.