Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1914, Page 5

Personal.

The King lias invested Sir Timothy Coghlau (Agent-General for New South Wales), and the other New Year knights, states a Loudon cablegram.

Mr Thomas Hardy, the novelist, has married his secretary, Miss Florence Dugdale.

The Rev. Dr. Druitt has been appointed Bishop of Grafton and Armidale. He has acted as coadjutor to the Bishop since 1911.

Mr Muir has resigned the position of editor of the Pahiatua Herald, the vacancy w ill be filled by Mr R. W. Carpenter, of the Auckland Star, and formerly of New Plymouth.

Brigadier-General Bridges, at present commanding the Military College at Duatroon, succeeds Major-General Kirkpatrick, Inspector-General of the Commonwealth Forces, in May, states a Sydney (cablegram.

Dr. F. Truby King, who was the Now Zealand Government’s representative at the conference recently held in London on infantile mortality, returned to the Dominion by the Ruapehu on Monday. Dr. King is attending the Medical Congress at Auckland.

Nominations for the Public Service Superannuation Board were considered yesterday by the Auckland section of the Public Service Association. The Press Association reports that all decided to support the candidature of Messrs M. Fraser (Wellington), J. W. MacDonald (Wellington), and H. AV. Bishop (Christchurch).

Fraulein Hirsch, the first Gorman woman doctor to acquire the rank of professor, has a record behind her before which even the Berlin University 1 clinic had to bow, not only in general medicine, but in bacteriological research. She is young and attractive in appearance, and her success counts for all the more in so much as it was earned in Germany, where the progress of women goes slowly, and in face of much hostility.

Lady Stanley, wife of the Governorelect of Victoria, is a great student of psychology of the child, and has definite views of her own as regards education. She has three children— Adelaide, aged 7, Edward John, G, and Pamela, 4. Both she and her husband are keen booklovers, and it has been their custom for years to spend all their free evenings together; he reading aloud and she doing needlework. Lady Stanley is also interested in music, but is keener, about (amateur, drama than anything pise, as befits the great granddaughter of Mrs Siddons, the great granddaughter of Charles Kemble, and great niece of Fanny Kemble.