PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 12061, 4 March 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL.

There will be- a full meeting of Cabinet -fcliis week. TVi,, Acting-Pwmigi, the Minister of Lands, and the Minister of Labor have all returned to Wellington. The death is announced of the Marchioness of Ripon, wife of" the Marquess of Ripon (Lord Privy Seal). The deceased lady was a daughter of . Captain Henry Vyner and a first cousin of her husband. She was married in ISSI. Mr Joseph Chamberlain, accompanied by his wife, has travelled to London from Highbury. He will go on to the Riviera with the utmost privacy. The most contradictory statements have been published regarding the right honorable gentleman’s liealth, but the weight of evidence is in favor of those who tako a pessimistic view. Colonel Lumsdcn. the originator of Lumsden’s Horse, which played a part in Ihe South African campaign, is at present in Wellington. A London message advises that the Prince of Wales’s eldest son has passed the preliminary examination for entry to the Royal Coliege at Osborne. At the Hilkido Workshops on Friday last Mr C. W. G. Haines, on the occasion of his marriage, received a present of a set of cutlery from his chopmates. Mr M. G. Thomson made the presentation, and conveyed to Mr Haines the good wishes of his fellow-employees. Mr J. Blair Macon, the Harbor Board’s engineer, left Dunedin on Saturday on a short visit to Christchurch.

Mr Paulin’s message:—EJ3.E. to N.E. winds, and fine.