PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 17, 20 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

M. Lemire has resigned the vicepresidency, states a cablegram from Paris. Mr Asquith (Britain’s Premier) is returning home from the Continent, states a London cablegram. The death has occurred, at Cardiff, of Sir John Duncan, newspaper proprietor, aged 67. Mr A. Coleman left by this morning’s mail train en route for Rotorua, where lie will join Mrs Coleman, and spend a. few weeks’ holiday. Mr J. B. Campbell, stationmaster, returned on Saturday evening from a holiday spent largely in Marlborough. He resumes duty on Monday next. M r Ken rick. S.M., white spending the vacation n't Kawakawa, in the A hangarei district, had the mi-for-tune to sprain his ankle. He is progressing satisfactorily, and expects to return to Hawera on Fridav savs the Star. Captain Franks, of the Salvation Army, and stationed in South Aus-

tralia, has been paying a visit to his brother in Elthaxn, states* the Argus. Captain Franks was an officer of the local corps some years ago. He leaves this week for Wellington in the course of a trip through the chief places of interest in ,tho Dominion. Miss Dove, if.A., the first woman to be nominated for the office of mayor in England, has failed to secure re-election to the High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire) Town Council after six years’ service. In 190 s Miss Dove was selected as thavor of High Wycombe, but great indignation was expressed by the inhabitants. After a heated debate at the council on the day on which Miss Dave should have taken over the office (November 9) a vote was carried in favor of a man as mayor. The Rt. Hon. Jesse Collings, Unionist M.P. for Birmingham, is’resigning at the general election, states a London cablegram. Mr Collings, who was born at Littleham, Devon, has attained the ripe old age of 82. He represented Ipswich from 1880 to 1886, and his present seat since that date. As far back as ’7B-9 he was mayor of Birmingham, and has taken a prominent part in public matters, having been hon. sec. of the National Education League,founder of the Allotments and Small Holdings Association. President of the Rural League, Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board in ’B6, member of the Labor Commission, ’9l, when he was created Privy Councillor, and Under Secretary to the Home Department 1895-1902. General Pacquart, champion of DrcyIns, is dead. A Paris cablegram states that he fell from Ids horse and struck his head on frozen ground. In December, 1891, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an officer of the French Army, if Jpwish extraction, horn in Alsace, ■vas convicted by a military courtnarual on a charge of offering to ■'ll military secrets to a foreign lower. The prosecution relied on me document only—an undated, unigned list of the papers which were or sale. The sentence of the Court ras military degradation and imirisonment for life, and Dreyfus was ent to the lie du Diable, off the oast of French Guiana. In 1895 dlonel Picquart became head of the '.Hilary intelligence department, and s leakages continued he became at mgth convinced that Major Esterazy was the real culprit. Esterhazy as tried by court-martial in 1898, at was acquitted. It was not until uly, 1906, that the character of reyfus was cleared, and lie was restated.