PERSONAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 90, 29 March 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Nurse O’Callaghan has commenced her duties as Plunket Nurse at Hastings. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, under medical advice, takes a few weeks holiday on the Continent.

Mr. Frank Morton, the wellknown journalist, is in Napier today.

Miss P. Baird left Hastings this morning en route to spend a holi day in Dunedin.

Mr. Roland Vernon of the Colonial Office, will accompany Lord Denman, the new Governor-General to Australia.

Messrs. G. Britnell and G. Mayo have been appointed Government nominees on the Wairoa Harbour Board.

Mr. J. P. Thomson and his son, Mr. W. N. Thompson, of Napier, were recent callers at the High Commissioner’s office in London.

Mr. H. R. Robinson, Receiver of Land Revenue, who left for Dannevirke this morning, will return to Napier on Thursday night.

Mr. H. D. Broadhead’s exhibition in classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Mr. N. M. Bell’s exhibition have been prolonged. They both belong to Christchurch.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands, the Secretary of the Land Board, and T. Lang, of the Lands Department will return to Napier from Dannevirke on Thursday evening.

Mr. W. E. Watts, of Johannesburg, South Africa, who has been on a visit to his brother-in-law, Mr. J. Bamforth, of Hastings, left for Christchurch this morning. Dr. Buck, Northern Maori member, will shortly leave Wellington Kaikohe, where on April Bth, a memorial to the late Mr. Hone Heke, his predecessor in office, will be unvailed.

It is reported at Ottawa that Lord Grey has abandoned his visit to the West Indies, and the Arctic journey planned for the autumn, owing to lack of time before the Duke of Connaught’s arrival. The London papers announce the engagement of Lord Islington’s senior aide-de-camp, Captain Gilbert Hamilton, and Miss Enid Elgar, of Featherson, New Zealand. Captain Hamilton is the only son of Lord and Lady Hamilton, and he probably possesses more cousins than anyone in London, among the number being the Duchess of Devonshire, the Duke of Marlborough, Lady Waterford, Lord Kerry, Lord Charles Fitzmaurice, Lord Hamilton, Lord Dalkeith, Lord Winterton. Lord Durham, Lord Valletort, Lord Lichfield, Mr. Roland Hamilton. Lady Beatrice Rawson, and their many brothers and sisters.