Personal.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 89, 6 April 1914, Page 5

Personal.

•—♦— Captain Foljambe, the Earl of Livei’pool’s brother, is a passenger by the Moeraki for New Zealand. Mr Masterman, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, is confined to his bed, as the result of a chill, states a London cable. Miss Adela Paukhurst, a daughter of Mrs Pankhurst, the English suffragette, who is now in Melbourne, is suffering from laryngitis, brought on through speaking at large open-air meetings after doctors advised her of the necessity of rest.

Mr Frank Birtles, the overland rider, and Mr Frank Hurley, of the Mawson Expedition, are leaving Sydney on April 11 for an extended motor expedition to the Gulf of Carpentaria and Central Australia. It is intended to cover 10,000 miles.

Mr Herbert Cooper, son of Judge Cooper, of Auckland, who recently qualified for his pilot’s certificate at Hendon, is returning to Now Zealand by the Remuera. It is probable that Mr Cooper will give exhibitions of flying in the Dominion.

Mr J. H. B. Coates, general manager of the National Bank, will leave Auckland on May 4-for Vancouver en route to England, having been invited to visit the Old Country by the London Board of Directors. Mr Coates will be away at least six months. During Ms absence the duties of general manager will be assumed by Mr D. W. Duthie, the Auckland manager, who will, in turn, he relieved by the accountant, Mr H. W. Lawson. It is ten years since Mr Coates visited the Old Country.

The Rev. Moelwyn Hughes, the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister, who recently delivered a brilliant lecture before the Liverpool Welsh National Society, was the first clerk to enter the service of Mr Lloyd George, then a young Carnarvonshire solicitor. Both master and clerk (says the “Christian World”) quitted the office to gain distinction in wider spheres. Dr. Hughes is a well-known poet and prose writer, and one of the ablest preachers in his denomination.

Captain Herbert J. T. Marshall, who has just been appointed to the command of the New Zealand division, and will fly his pennant on the cruiser Psyche—one of the old “P” class of cruisers so familiar in' East Indian waters—is (writes a London correspondent) very familiar with both Australian and East Indian waters, having served several commissions on both stations. Ho commanded the Prosperine, East Indies squadron, froth 1909 to 1911, and was promoted captain for his fine work in putting down gun running in the Persian Gulf, and last year brought the Swiftsure oilt to the same station, where she is flagship, and brought the old flagship Highflyer, home.