PERSONALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9573, 26 July 1923, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Mr Andre Skalski. accompanied by his business manager, Mrs Stanley McKellar. were passengers by the Arahura yesterday for Napier. Princess Maud’s marriage has been fixed for October 15 in the Guards' Chapel. Wellington barracks. it will be the first Royal wedding there. —A. and X.Z.C.A. Paymaster-Commander Reginald Butcher, states a cable from London, has been appointed Secretary of the New Zealand naval force. He will hail by the Rotorua. —A. and 2s.Z.C.A. Misses G. NeweyJ F. Hill and 27. Gallagher, of Gisborne, left by the Arahura last evening to join the North Island ladies’ hockey team m 'Wellington, where the annual interisland match is to be played on Saturday next.

Sir Joseph Cook and Sir James Allen are proceeding from London to Geneva for the meeting of the Mandates Commission on August 2. Sir Joseph Cook is participating in the Nauru and New Guinea and Sir .James Allen in the Nauru and Samoa discussions. Tiic secretary of the Melanesian Mission, states a P.A. message from Auckland, advised that tiic l Bishop or I Melanesia underwent- anotkc-i operation in London on Saturday. The operation was successful, and he is expected to sail at the end of January* Th ere was a very large attendance at the Paiut&Jn Hill cn Tuesdy evening, when tiie residents of the dist- : rict met m force to say farewell to Constable and Mrs Maloney, who have been transferred to Takapau ‘During an interval in the dancing. Archdeacon Yv iliiams made a few remarks. :ii which he referred to the excellent qualities of their guests, and presented Airs, Maloney with a substantial c-heque. troni me residents of Pattitaln. constable jlaclrsey suitably replied. Ino wife of Mr i.. J. Carmine, former.v or Gisboi-ne, who was until his retirement on superannuation a few months ago. superintendent of telegraphs at Blenheim, passed awav recently A elnngton. Ike late Mrs Carmine had not enjoyed the best of Health for some time, and the news of her death _ was not altogether unexpected by her many friends. Mrs Carmine leaves bcs.des. her husband, a grown-up family of three to mourn their loss. The Lady Superintendent reported to the meeting of the Cook 'Komvital Board yesterday that four nurses*had sat for the State examination for rstraiion and certificates held in June, me results were: Nurses E. Smith and lapse:t. passed with honors, gaining ■ 5 per cent.: Nurse D'Aivy. partial pass, surgical paper and oral oxaniin“jlon: Niuse Al. Camobell. pa.—-cd -Muses E. Smith. M. Cam-obeli. and D Avcv have left the Hospital, having completed their trainiiw