PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Professor Grafton Smith has been elected vice-president of the Royal Society, states a Loudon cable.

Sir T. R. Robinson. Agent-General for Queensland, met the Premier, Mr Denham, at Folkestone (states a London cable). A number of prominent Quoenslanders and representatives of the Colonial Office welcomed him at Charing Cross. Mr W. C. Nation, a veteran journalist/ at one time proprietor of the "Greytown Standard" and later of the "Levin Chronicle." is spending a few days in Taranaki, and is the guest of Mr and Mrs T. H. Birdsall. Mr .Nation proposes visiting Xew Plymouth and returns to Stratford at the end of the week, having been requested to lecture' again on Sunday pvening next. The friends of Mr R. Alexander, formerly of the Danneviike Press, and latterly of the Tribune, Hastings, who has accepted an appointment on the editorial staff of the Taranaki News, assembled in the Mayor's room at the Council Chambers last week and presented him with a purse of sovereigns. Mr J. Vigor Brown, M.P., who occupied the chair, made the presentation. and expressed his regret at Mr Alexander's departure from Napier.