Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 86, 11 December 1913, Page 5

Personal.

Mr L. J. S. Bush, operator at His [Majesty's Theatre, left by this morning's train on a holiday tour. During his absence the operating will, be done bv Mr Sid Bernard.

Mr F. AY. Coombes, formerly sporting editor of the New Zealand Times

has been appointed deputy stipendiary steward of the Australian Jockey Club, states a Sydney cablegram today i

M* B. McLauchlin, accountant, of the Opunake brancli of the Bank of New Zealand, has been transferred to Pongaroa. Mr Cowey, of Wellington, has been appointed to the Opunake branch.

Mr W. H. Hawkins, well-known to many of our readers as a salesman and auctioneer, has joined the staff of Mr T. I. Lamason, of Stratford, and will sell ou the firm's account at Mr Lamason's Mart next Saturday.

Miss Dolly Allen, the youngest

daughter of the Hon. James Allen, i Minister.of Education, is leaving New Zealand next March for an indefinite period. It is Miss Allen's intention to study the Montesorri system of education under the celebrated teacher at Rome, and it is probably that on her return to the Dominion Miss Allen will take up the profession of teaching.

Surely one of tho most wonderful men in the Peerage is. the Duke of ■Grafton, who. despite his 92 years of age, gets about the country in remarkable fashion, and latterly has been indulging in motoring. He has been equerry (active and honorary) to three •sovereigns—Queen Victoria, King Edward VII., and King George, and his memories would throw interesting light 071 the early days of the nineteenth century.

The Berlin correspondent of the "Christian World" supplies some in-

teresting particulars as to Germany's richest people. The German rulers and a considerable number of the members of their families are very wealthy men, but their incomes bulk more largely than their actual accumulations. The richest of them is undoubtedly Kaiser Wilhelm as King of Prussia. For as German Emperor he receives no Civil List. His fortune is computed at seven millions sterling, his annual income at £1,100,000. But he is by no'means the richest man in his dominions. With regard to incomes.the first largest in Germany are : The Emperor, £1,100,000: Frail Bertha Krupp, over £900,000; Prince Eenckel, £600,000; the Duke von . Fjest. 1 £300,000; and Herr Ziese, Shipbuilder and landowner,, about the ' ssime. '•' ' ; rI ;:";