PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6318, 22 February 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss M. Stagpcolc and Miss Thelma Williams, of Gisborne, are on a holiday visit to- Wellington, arid are the guests of Mrs. L. W. Hanlon, of Oriental Bay.

,-Administrative business in. connection with the East Coast Native Trust is responsible for the presence in Gisborne cf His Honor Judge Kawson, Native Trustee.

Mr. A. T. Jones, manager cf the City Bumf, is leaving shortly for Australia. While there he will attend the largest hand contest ever held in Australasia, ut Toowoomba, Queensland. Air T. M. Wilford, the Leader of the new Opposition, after a few days' spell is likely to start on a tour of the constituencies, and presumably %e '"'ill have with him the organiser of the late Statham party. Sir Francis Bell, 'who is to leave shortly for a trip to the Old Country, states he has resigned the portfolios of Marine, Valuation and Forests, retaining that only of Attorney-General.

Dr W. F. Browne, ox Latimer Square, Christchurch, has been appointed to represent the Christchurch City Council at the 33rd Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute, to be held in Bournemouth, England, during July. Mr Ernest Toy, the well-known Australian violinist, who has been located in America for the past six or seven years, is visiting Auckland and Rotorua. After visiting Australia he intends to return to the States. Air Toy is accompanied by bis wife. Air. Harry Shugg, judge in the band contest at Wellington, has been conducting bands for 19 years. "V ith the Geelong Harbor Trust Band and subsequently the Malvern Tramways Band, he has entered for competitions thirteen times, with a record of eleven firsts, a second, and a third. The Rev. Air Ditterick, general president of the Australian Protestant Federation, will arrive in the Dominion in April for a lecture tour for the Protestant Political Association. Air Difcterick is an ex-president of rhe Australian Methodist Conference, and one of tiie leading speakers in Australia, as well as the author of several bocks.

M. Andre Tennoir, a member of the staff of the Royal Natural History Museum, Brussels, and of the Entomological Societies of Belgium, France, and Egypt, is visiting Christchurch. He is - maxing a comparative study of the two-winged insects of-the diptera - of Europe. New Zealano,. Australia, and South America, mainly on behalf of the Brussels University. In view of the death of the Pope, it was stated in'some circles that the world-famous Sistine Choir would not visit Australia, as arranged. .ELI doubts -on the matter were set at rest bv the arrival in Sydney recently or Aliss Agues Murphy, who was so intimately associated with the career or Aladarne Alelba, and who arrived to make preliminary arrangements in connection with the visit.

Among the eminent vocalists to visit New Zealand this year (states the Christchurch Press) will be -Aliss RoMna Buekman, the Ndw Zealand -soprano. who within the last seven or eight years has risen to be acknowledged'as England's greatest soprano. Aliss Buekman, who will be accompanied bv her husband, Air Maurice d Ois«oy. a fine tencr. will commence a concert tour or Australasia in Wellington, during- tiie first week o* June. The hero of the Cocgee shark fatality. Mr Jack Chalmor-, who valiantly dragged voting Goughian from the grip of the man-eater, is a native of Dellingtou. His maternal grandparents are Air and Airs George Stager. of No. 6. Roxburgh Street, Wellington. Chalmers was born ill Hawker Street, Wellington. Hi? paternal grandfather was Air Win. Chalmers, proprietor for many years of a cooperage in Waterloo Quay, Wellington. Young Chalmers' mother, formerly Aliss Louisa Seagar. was only recently on a visit to Wellington. His father. Mr Jack Chalmers,' was a wellknown first-class racing track cyclist, whose forte was 'Handicap riding, and

in this he was at ‘his prime in Australia about twenty years ago. when lie raced under the c-ash-amateurisni cf the League of Wheelmen.

The death is announced of Mr. Geo. MacDonald, of Wharerata, who passed away suddenly yesterday. He appeared to be in his usual state of health, but while dressing collapsed, and died shortly after. Although a little run down, Mr. MacDonald had not shown any signs of illness. Born in the Western district of Victoria in 1870. about 25 years ago Mr. MacDonald came to New Zealand with two brothers. For a time he was station managing, gr.ally settling on a property at Wharerata. The lave Mr. MacDonald leaves a widow ami three sens and one daughter— Cyril, Wrey. Keith. aiul Iris — to mourn his loss. He was a son of the late Mr. A. MacDonald, of Matawhoro, ami a brother of the late Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald. Another brother, Mr. John MacDonald, resides at Tologa Bay, and another. Kenneth, at \Vhangam. and Duncan at Napier. Of his sisters, Mrs. G. S. Grey lives at Gis bathe. Mrs. Fraser in Queensland, and Mrs. J-obson in Wairoa.

The wedding of Miss Louise Thompson, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Thompson, of Opotiki. to Mr. Alfred George Pitcher, son of Mrs. and the late- Mr. James G. Pitcher, of Te Karaka. took place at the residence of the bride’s parents, Opotiki. on February S. The ceremony was performed by the Dev. David liird, it.A., of St. John’s Presbyterian Church. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked charming in a 'beautiful gown of cameo pink charmeuse, trimmed with silk' fringe to match, the bodice having a design in gold tissue. A .veil of Brussells lace, held ini place by a circlet of pink rosebuds, ami orange blossoms completed a very pretty toilette. The bridesmaid. Miss Margaret Thompson (sister of the bride), was attired in- an ivory georgette frock, with low swathed belt of ivory satin. Mr. H. S. Holmes acted as best man. After the ceremony the guests (mainly relatives) were suniptuotfsly entertained, the usual -toasts being honored. Later m the afternoon the happy couple left by motor for their honeymoon, amid the hearty good wishes of their many friends. »