PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 99, 27 March 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr, <!'. M. Steward. ■'liop of Melanesia, is visiting Taranaki.. . Ex-Emperor Karl is suffering from n fc>ver.. and the doctors are hold- , ing a consultation on the case. Sfr Reginald Parke, of Hamilton, . 'died on Friday at the age of fifty. M ioUr years Tile death is announced of Mr William Mowat Hannay, ex-general manager of the Wellington-Mana'watu Railway Company, % The Dunedin City Council appointed Mr O. W. Payne, of Auckland, as tramway engineer, on six months’ trial. Hr- and Mr s O. Smart returned to Stratford on Saturday night by the mail train after a fortnight’s holiday, part of which was spent in Rotorua. (By the will of Mrs Mary Kennedy (widow, of Mr Martin Kennedy, of Wellington) the sum of £11,050 has been bequeathed to Catholic iqstiiution 8 and charities, .The. Press Association,.reports the death at Dunedin of Mr J. M. Stevenson, Mayor of Port Chalmers, who; was' . well-known in yachting 'V circles -

Mr and Mrs T, Smith, who attended the Rakers’ Exhibition at Auckland, and afterwards visited Rotorua, returned to Stratford on Saturday night by the mail train.

The*, appointment is announced of /Mr John Baird Thompson as ,Un-Jder-Secrctar v for Lands, in succession S\io Mr T, N. Brodrick, 0.8. E., 1.5.0.. who is retiring on superannuation.

Dr. 0. 11. Bums, who recently passed the final medical examinations in Dunedin, has been ahvarded the Medical Travelling Scholarship for 1922 ; and the Batchelor Memorial Medal for gynecology.

Many friends in the Stratford dis- . tricfe will bo interested to learn that Mr O. H. Clinkard, for some two , year 8 past managing clerk for Messrs Spence, Rutherford, Macalister and Coleman, at Stratford, and who recently severed his connection with that firm, was admitted as a solicitor of the Supireme Court by Mr Justice Hosting on Friday last, on the motion of Mr H, H. Cornish, Mr # Clinkard, it is understood, i B about to commence the practice of lii& profession in Wanganui,