Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 5

Personal.

Mr F. A. Bremer, the well-known stock breeder of Okaiawa, is lying seriously ill in New Plymouth.

Mr Jesse Steere has announced hAr intention to contest the Grey seat at the general election, reports a P.A. wire from Greymouth.

Mr H A. Moore, of Taihape, who has been appointed homo missionary for the Presbyterian Church at Whangamomona, will take his first services on Sunday.

Captain Edward Frederick Hemingway died in Auckland yesterday, at the ripe age of 92 years. Captain Hexn- * ingway was well-known in Taranaki in the early “sixties” in.connection with the troubles with the Natives. *

Miss K. Wilson, mistress of the Marco Road School, is at present in the Stratford Hospital, having been somewhat seriously ill. Her place at the school has been temporarily filled by Mrs S. M. Mills, of Whanga, writes our correspondent.

The death is announced from New York of Mr Henry Green, pioneer manufacturer of May tubes. Death was due to carcimoma of the liver induced by X-ray poison. Mr Green developed the first focussing tubes which wore successfully operated, and later beginning their manufacture on a commercial basis.

Constable J. Scannell (writes our Whangamomona correspondent) had a busy day on Saturday last) being entertained at several farewell gatherings and presentation functions. Among the presents publicly subscribed for the popular "Jack’' were a beautiful cut glass spirit set with a case of silver jnountedoak, a travelling rug, tea and cbffee service, suit case, silver teapot, and some ; others. Constable Scannell was married on Tuesday, and with Jus wife has gone South on* a month’s honeymoon.

Dr. C. H. Haggar, one of the liliputhm Labor paty of six in the Union Assembly, is the Socialist member for Roodeport, 'who went to South Africa in' 1898 from Australia, where he had lived for i«ai»y years. ■ The doctor took an active part in the recent railway strike at Capetown. He was arrested there, but was released on the same day. Dr. Haggar was very weliknowh at Charters Towers and Town;;-

i villo, Queensland, where he used to he engaged in scholastic work.

Mr Robert Burns Waterston, one of thejkitith African strike leaders deportejpn the steamer Umgeni, is a native of the State of Victoria. He is well-known on the Rand, though comparatively young, as secretary of the Labor party, and town councillor of Boksburg. Mr Waterston has only recently taken a prominent part in the Labor movement, and he is reputed to possess considerable organising ability. Five of the nine men deported are Scotsmen. .