PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVI, Issue 8625, 6 December 1906, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Three daughters and a son of Lord and Lady Plunket leave for Home by the Athenic to-day.

Mr Maurice Cohen, Mayor of Palmerston North, returned from a tour of the East by the Wimmera, yesterday.

Mr R. C. Kirk was yesterday re-elected chairman of the Wellington and Wairarapa Charitable Aid Board.

A message from Melbourne aunounces the death of Mr Sam Cook, a well-known horseowner and trainer.

A cable message, from Rome, states that Bishop Grimes, of Christchurch, was received in audience by Pope Pius.

Mr J. Godber was elected chairman and Mr R. C. Kirk treasurer of the Wellington District Hospital Board, at yesterday's meeting of that body.

According to a message to the Capa Times from London, Mr Allan Thomson, the first New Zealand Rhodes scholar, has won the Burdett-Coutts Scholarship at Oxford University.

Mr Charles Edward Bird, who has been manager of the Dunedin Club, Fernhill, relinquished his, position. Mr Bird has occupied the position of manager lo tho Club for thirty-two years.

An Adelaide message states that, the health of Dr Rainy, ex-Principal of the New College at Edinburgh, who is on a recuperating tour, is improving. When ho reached Adelaide yesterday he was too ill to land or receive visitors.

Hon. Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria, defending Sir Samuel Gillott, said there was no better man in creation. He was a fool to allow himself to be driven from public life. Those who attacked him were not fit to be compared with him.

Pastor Ries, who has been in very indifferent health for some months, and, in consequence, resigned his seat on the Waipawa County Council, has tendered his resignation as a member of the Dannevirke High School Board of Governors.

The congregation of the Kent-terrace Presbyterian Church, Wellington, met on Tuesday night to welcome home Mr and Mrs W. M. Hannay and Mr D. Robertson, members of the church, who have recently returned from a visit to Britain and America.

A well-known Auckland identity, Mr W. G. Garrard, died on Friday last, at the age of 80 years. Deceased, as a seaman on H.M S. Terrible, took part in the Crimean War, and on coming to New Zealand he took part in the Maori War. He was best known in Auckland as a street orator and dog

ranger

Mr F. J. Dignan, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, in Masterton, will leave for New Plymouth, on Saturday next, to take temporary charge of the New Plymouth office, owing to the illuess of the present manager there. Mr Baillie, accountant, at Masterton, will take charge of the local institution during Mr Dignan's temporary absence, Mr Fendall acting as accountant.

The Rev. Anderson Gardiner, minister of the Bluff Presbyterian Church some twelve years ago, and who has since been minister at Manly, the fashionable seaside suburb of Sydney, is at present on a visit to New Zealand, and occupied the pulpit of his old church at the Bluff on Sunday week. Mr Gardiner, although totally blind, has a wonderful memory, and the scripture lessons which he commits to memory aro recited with pleasing effect. Mr Gardiner is a preacher of great ability.

The Oamaru Mail records the death, in the South of France, of Mr Augustus Henry Aldborough Stratford-Henniker, who was well-known all over Otago as Warden and Stipendiary Magistrate in various localities. After Mr Stratford-Henniker's retirement from business in Oamaru a few years ago, he spent some time at Hanmer Springs, and then took a trip Home, where, however, his health was not good. Mr Stratford-Henniker entered the navy as a youth, and was on the China Station at the time of the war of 1858. Later he settled in Otago, entering the service of the Provincial Government in Dunedin, subsequently acting as clerk to Major Keddell, then a coroner and warden on the goldfields. Thereafter Mr Stratford-Henniker (then Mr Stratford) was warden at Mount Ida and other localities in Otago, Resident Magistrate at Thames, Wairarapa, Wellington and Oamaru, and Stipendiary Magistrate and Warden at Greymouth and Balclutha. In 1884 he was admitted to the Bar by Mr Justice Williams, having undertaken the task .of studying law at an age when for most men sustained study is a matter of difficulty. Upon retiring from the Bench a few years ago, he settled in Oamaru, and practiced as a barrister and solicitor for a couple of years.