PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 47, Issue 143003, 15 January 1921, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Auckland message states that Mr ”W C Somers, of the firm of Russell and Somers, the well-known shipping died last night. At its meeting last night the Trust 3kmds Trust appointed Messrs C. R. . Daniel 1, E. G. Eton and R. Krahagen as .its representatives on the Board or Managers of the Technical School. At the Kelburn Presbyterian Church on December 28th, Mr L. J. Maule, sousitor, of Wellington, was married to Miss Eileen Newcombe, formerly of 3^iGterton. Kc morning services at St. Matthew’s Church tomorrow will be Conducted by the Rev. Armstrong, of Queensland, who is at present on a holiday visit to New Zealand. The death took place last week at her •residence in Gisborne of Mrs Maunsell, wife of Mr Cecil Maunsell, and mother of Mrs C. B. de Lautour. Mrs Maunsell -was a pioneer settler of sixty-six years standing, and had a wide circle of friends. A number of the results of the law professional examination, held m November last, were released for publication yesterday. The Masterton candidates whose names appear below passed factions in the subjects specified. The subjects are denoted as follow: 1, Contracts; 2, Property I,; 5, Criminal Law. The results are not complete, ana a supplementary list will probably appear on Tuesday: —H. E. Moore, 1,2, 5; C. Miles, 1. The stormy days of the Church Union are recalled by the death recently of the Rev. Colin A. Bannatyne, who was the real leader of The “Wee Frees, and eonstitued their first General As ■ sejh ly on the Castle Esplanade m a when the dissentients had ■ieen excluded by the majority, writes a Edinburgh correspondent. Later he became one of its college professor:?. He -was not a man of great scholarship or brain power, but, as became one brought up under Dr. Begg, he had an indomitable will and a cast-iron determination to stand in the old paths, even if all the rest of the world should go past 3&im. Though he spent his working liie an the lowland parish of Culter, his intellectual affinities were with the \High- • gsml host of the General Assembly. Ha *fas, by the way, a cousin of Viscount > HftnTay, the late Lord Chancellor. Writes a London correspondent: Mr J. W. Stewart, the retiring Lord Provost of Glasgow, has received the baronetcy which it is now the custom to bestow on the municipal heads cf our two ■principal cities at the close of their three years’ service. The honour is well deserved. I cannot help thinking, however, that these hereditary dis--tinctions will be a white elephant m the course of time to most of those who come into them. It is understood that man accepts a hereditary • title fcw'iics an endowment, so that the bedrer is always beyond the reach ol want. But investments occasionally go -wrong, and the baronet has to turn to ■work. Not so long ago there, was a ■ Scottish baronet who was a stationmas--fcer and in future we may have onr - groceries Or our books handed out to ris "by a "entleman who is entitled lO call . -fcfmar.if “Sir.” It would be far better r £ recognise municipal service by a distinction confined to the man who had earned it.

Great exception is taken by Miss Louise Mack,'to the extracts from Mrs Asquith’s somewhat notorious memoirs ’which are being forwarded to New Zealand. She declares these clippings do mot give a fair description of the brilliant Margot Tennant, who became the second wife of England’s Prime Minister. Mrs Asquith, she affirms, is celebrated for her housewifely qualities, and these extracts must be sent by toub" men who have no means of inowing the facts. It is well known that Mrs Asquith was never missing from the duties of the luncheon table in 3ser own home except when she accompanied the Premier in his official duties, her home life is very charmongfshe was greatly beloved by her •Jour step-children, of whom the brilliant Raymond Asquith, who gave his life m the - war was one; and that she had been the/greatest influence for good with them all- She iB a constant patron of :art literature and music. Many now y?eil known men with talent owe all their success to the helping hand she held out to them. But above all, her •chief characteristic is that she is such a, fine home maker, which is exactly op■posite to the impression which is being put befor- the Dominions in these extracts taken from their rightful setting.