PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 42, 6 October 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Obituary: Hon. A. E. Solomon, exPremier of Tasmania. Mr Ringer, who met with a serious accident yesterday, is reported to-day to be doing us well as is to be expected. Mr Sidney Ward was at a meeting of the executive committee of the Stratford A. and P. Association held last night appointed to the position of secretary of the Association.ilr H. Williamson, who a mouth ago was admitted to the hospital suffering from injuries to the head received through falling from a horse, has now left that institution and Is well on the way to complete recovery.

Master E. J. R. Hill, who has been telegraph messenger at Whangaxnomona for the past two years, and who has been transferred to Stratford on promotion, as letter carrier, was presented by Mr Hatton, Postmaster, on behalf of the residents, with a hand bag suitably inscribed, as a token of their appreciation of the way he had performed his duties, and of his obliging manner while connected with the Wbangamomona Post Office. Master Hill, in a neat speech, thanked the residents for their present.

Monsignor Bonaventura .Ceretti, the Apostolic Delegate to Australia, Oceania, and New Zealand, was for some time a member of the Washington Delegation. When the appointment was first announced, the Rome correspondent of the London Observer stated that Monsignor Ceretti’s appointment to Australasia had caused surprise in Catholic circles in the Eternal City. It was understood that the late Cardinal Moran had impressed upon Pius X. the necessity for decentralising the Church in the most distant colonies, and had suggested a Primate for Australia, who should also be Papal Legate. The Pope decided instead that an Apostolic Delegate should be the connecting link.

A very pleasing ceremony took place last Tuesday at Whangamomona, when Mr D. L, Hatton, late secretary of the Whanga Football Club, was met by the footballers and asked to accept a presentation on their behalf. Mr McMeekan, in making the presentation, which took the form of a silver mounted spirit cabinet, suitably inscribed, said ilr Hatton bad been secretary of the Club since lie had arrived in the district two years ago, and had done all he could for the good old game. He made special reference to Mr Hatton in forming the Eastern District SubUnion, of which ho was hon. secretary, and which had made football in the Eestern District, more especially in Whangamomona. They were all sorry ho was leaving the district, and hoped that he would taka as much interest in the game in his new place of appointment. Messrs Armstrong, Keeley, Klee and Little alLspoke of Mr Hatton’s worth ns a footballer and as secretary of the Club. ' Mr Hatton, in thanking the footballers for their presentation. said he was only too jiieased to do all ho could for the game. Football had always been a hobby of his, and no doubt he would drift into it again, when,ho arrived at Ormondville, where he had been transferred as Postmaster.