Personals.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 19, 5 January 1923, Page 4

Personals.

Sir William Sowden, of Adelaide, will leave Sydney by the Ulimaroa this week on a visit to New Zealand.

The Hon T. M. Wilford, leader of the Opposition, accompanied by Mrs Wilford, has left Auckland for Rotorua.

Princess Victoria is suffering from bronchitis and pulmonary congestion at Sandringham, says a London cable. Sir Benjamin and Lady Fuller are leaving Sydney in February on a visit to (he East.

Mr W. Goss, the veteran tennis player, of Christchurch, accompanied by his wife and daughter, returned south this

morning. Mr and Mrs F. R. Buch, who have been on a visit to Mr and Mrs F. Per rin, of Hastings, returned to Auckland

this morning. Sir Thomas McKenzie, who has been staying in Napier for a few days, passed through Hastings this morning for Pahiatua and the South.

Lady Alary Duncan, of Scotland, who is on a tour of the world, arrived at Auckland from Sydney bjl the Niagara, and will go on to Rotorua on Saturday.

Miss Ridley, who is visiting New Zealand from England, is at present the guest of Lor|l and Lady Jellicoe at Government House, Auckland.

Mr G. E. Ironsides, assistant stock inspector in Pahiatua for the past two and a half years, has received notice of transfer to Wanganui. The engagement is announced of Miss Marjorie Daniell, youngest daughter of .Mr C. E. Daniell, of Mastorton, and Mr E. O. Ramsden, of Wellington. Air 'Gibson, of the reporting staff of the ‘‘Dominion,” who has been attending the tennis tournament ns special correspondent, returned to Wellington to-day.

The marriage was celebrated in the Methodist-Church, Masterton, of Miss L. Rothwell, daughter of the Rev. B. F. and M!rs Rothwell, of Masterton to Mr. J. Stineir, of Napier. After the ceremony a reception was held at the Parsonage, Worksop road. Mr A. Ogilvie Winsert, of the staff of the Palmerston North Boys’ High school, has been appointed assistant master in the secomjary department of the Waipukurau District High School. Mr Harold Elworthy mnd Miss Alargarot Elworthy, of Timaru, are pro coeding to Fiji where they will bo the guests of Sir Cecil and Lady Rodwell, at Government House.

Mr G. M. Spence, his Sister, Miss D. Spence, of Auckland, and Mr R. D. Brown, left Hastings early this morning on a motor tour to Auckland, via Gisborne, Opotiki and Rotorua. Mr Spence will be absent from Hastings about ten days. • Dr. F. A. Rodway, of Nowra, will be one of the British Medical Association’s delegates to the ■congress of the Australasian Association for the Ad vancement of Science, to begin in Wellington on January 11. Mr J. A. Johnson, M.A., of the University of Tasmania, and Messrs A. N. Lewis, LL.B., and J. J. Johnson, of the* Royal »Society of Tasmania, also attend the congress. St. John’s Church, Dannevirke, was the scene of a pretty wedding on Boxing Day, when Miss Caroline Harriett Cuff, eldest daughter'of Mr and Mrs J. H. Cuff, of Mangatera, was married to Mr Alfred H. AL Ibbetson, who has been appointed accountant in the New Zealand Loan and Alercantilo Co., at Mastertom

Mr C. E. Robertson ,the well-known stock judge, recently underwent an operation in a private hospital, and is reported as making, a good recovery. Intimation was recently received that Air Robertson had been unanimously recommended by the New South Wales Friesian Association to judge Friesian cattle at the Sydney Royal Show, to be held in Sydney at Easter. The death occurred at Auckland on Tuesday last of Mrs Catharina Myers, widow’ of Mr. Louis Myers, sister of the late Mr. Louis Ehrenfried, and mother of the Hon. Arthur M. Myers, Mr. Leo Myers. -Dr, Bernard Myers, Mr. Benjamin Myers, and Mrs William Coleman. The deceased lady", who had reached her 80th year, came to New Zealand ovef. sixty years ago, of which the earlier half wa 8 spent in Dunedin and the later in Auckland.

The death is announced of Mr. John Barton, a well-known resident of the Hutt Valiev • Mr. Barton was the first white child born in the Upper Hutt district, his birthday being October 8. 1850. He was a son of Mr. Richard Barton. Isle of Wight, who came out in the Oriental in 1840, and his mother was a daughter of the Rev. John Butler, the first resident clergyman in New Zealand —from 1819 to 1824—colony in 1840 as an agent of th© New Zealand Land Company. Mr. John Barton was educated as a lad at Mr. Toomath’s School at the Hutt, and at Nelson College, and became a civil engineer, joining the Provincial Government service, lanI a n 1879 he became assistant city engineer of Wellington. and later entered the pastoral industry.