Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 86, 2 April 1914, Page 5

Personal.

His Majesty the King gave an audience to Admiral Sir D .H. Bosanquet, on his relinquishing the Governorship of South Australia. Mr Harold Beauchamp has "been reelected chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, states a Wellington P.A. wire to-day. Mr T. E. Hamerton, of Inglewood, who has been seriously ill, has so far recovered that he is able to leave his room. The Right Hon. W. F. Massey was 58 years of age on Sunday last, having been bom in Londonderry on March 29, 1856. He arrived in the Dominion in December, 1870. Mr Kerry, one-time owner of the yacht Ariadne, which was wrecked some years ago near the mouth of the Wlaitaki River, is a visitor to Wellington. He has booked a passage to America by the Niagara, which will leave Auckland on April,ll,

Mr J. B. Hine, M.8./was present to-day at the opening of the Maketawa Dairy Factory picnic and sports at the special invitation of settlers. With the beautiful weather prevailing it is not surprising to find there was a large attendance from all round the district. The Member for Stratford was received by Mr J. Brown and other iflembers of committee, and after an excellent luncheon provided by the ladies, left for Stratford and caught the 1.30 train for Toko to be present at the sports held there this afternoon.

Dowager Lady Graves Sawle, who was' ft veritably link with the past, has passed away (says “Hearth and Home”)- During her long life she came, into contact with many of the most famous people, and her diary, which she kept from the age of 14, and which was printed and circulated privately a few years ago, contains many interesting items. She boasted of having danced at Brussels with Prince Albert before he married Queen Victoria, and among other recollections of which she was proud were those of having had breakfast with Rogers, acted charades with Dickens, and dined with Thackeray. For 25 years, till-his death, she corresponded with Walter Savage Lanthe great poet. She was persent t at Queen -Victoria’s coronation, and was often at the Tuileries when Louis Philippe' lf le bon rbi-bourgeois” reign'ed thfere. ‘ ' ;

'll >. }■ ! Mr D.f D. MacFarlane, of Lyndon, Amuri; - Waiau, : was brought into Christchurch bn Tuesday to receive medical attention, but died last night from heart failure, -The late Mr MacFarlane was the son of Sir John MacFarlane, of Coldstream, Rangiora, and Was a well-known figure -in public life- in> North Canterbury; He was bom at Loburh 1 on September 18,

1860. '■> He*was promiently associated with the agricultural and pastoral industry in North Canterbury, and , was a member of the Canterbury Agri- j cultural and -Pastoral Association, of ]- which he was president for several years. He also occupied the position t of president of the Canterbury Sheep-owners’ Union, and was recently elected by the A. and P. Associations of Canterbury for appointment to the Board of Agriculture. He served on many local bodies, and contested th s Hunmui seat at last flection as a Reform candidate. —Press telegram.