Mainly Personal.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1404, 27 January 1914, Page 5

Mainly Personal.

The Hons. J. Barr and J. T. Paul have been reappointed to the Legislative Council.

It is understood that Mr H. Corbett, the chairman of the Ohitiemuri County Council, will contest the Obinemuri seat, at the next general election.

In connection with the recent Junior Civil Service examinations Master Douglas Gow, of Cambridge, was included in the list of those who passed with credit. He was No. 100 on the list.

Major - General Godley, Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, is at present in Cambridge directing the arrangements for the staff ride in this district during the next few days. Mr and Mrs Joseph Jay, of “Salthurst,” intend shortly to renew acquaintance with the Old Country, and have beeked passages for England by the steamer Athenic, which leaves in April next. Colonel G. Arnold Word, of Tauranga, officer commanding the 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles, arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon to take part in the staff ride for officers.

Mr Prank O’Sullivan, represen. tative of the Merry Widow Opera Company is in Cambridge completing arrangements for the visit of the company here on Wednesday, February 4th, when the worldfamed success “ The Arcadians ” is to be staged. It has proved a bigger success than any of the operas introduced to New Zealand audiences by the above popular company.

The many Cambridge friends of Mr Nelson Rout, son of Mrs Rout, Leamington, will be pleased to hear he has been successful in his studies at the Edinburgh University, the latest examination giving him 90 per cent, of marks in chemistry, 75 per cent, in anatomy, and 68 per cent, in physics. It is always pleasing to chronicle successes of New Zealanders in other parts of the world, and doubly so to record the doings of a Cambridge boy. Well done, Nelson !