PERSONAL

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 134, 8 June 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Hon.. W. Hall-Jones has been steadily improving in health during the last week, and is now well ontho road to recovery.

Mr C. A, Loughnan, solicitor, of Palmerston North, has been appointed Crown Prosecutor for that town in succession to Mr H. S. Fifezherbert, recently raised to the Magisterial bench. It is understood that the question of filling the vacancies in the Legislative Council caused by the expiration of the term for which Messrs J. E. Jenkinson and J. Rigg were appointed will not be settled until the Premier's return from England.

A sister of Major yon Tempsky recently paid a visit to "the battlefield of Te Ngutu o te Manu, where the distinguished Prussian lost his life in action against Titokowaru's men. During her visit she was presented with a greenstone axe, which was dug out of the ground near the spot where her brother was killed.

Mr and Mrs C. J. Liggins, of Dunedin, are at present on a brief visit to Blenheim, and are the guests of Mr and Mrs F. Paine. Mr Liggins was formerly manager of the local branch of the Union S.S. Company, and now occupies an important position at the head office, Dunedin. It is nearly 16 years since Mr Liggins' previous visit, and "Blenheim has wonderfully • improved," he says. -

A Press Association telegram from Auckland says that Mis* Martha E. Bedgood died at the home of her brother at Paihia, Bay of Islands, on Tuesday, May iißth. She was a daughter of one of the old missionaries, and was born at Waimate North in 1837, in the first wharepuri built by the missionaries. There in her chiMHood she witnessed some of the exciting incidents connected with Heke's war in 1845. Her active life had been for the most part devoted to the Maori work. Miss Bedgood's last public work was to tour the Auckland diocese some years ago as a Bible colporteur. Bishop Cowie used to value her information as to Maori work. Her body was buried on Thursday, May 30th, in the churchyard at Waimate North, within a few chains of the place of her birth. The funeral service was partly in English and partly in Maori, being conducted by Archdeacon Walsh and the two local Maori clergymen.

Captain the Hon. Nigel Charles Gathorne-Hardy, of the sth Northumberland Fusiliers, and Lieutenant Edward Lycett Lyon, of the 18th Hussars, have been appointed A.'s D.C. to Lord Plunket, vice Captains Braithwaite and Bingham, who have returned Home to rejoin their regiments. Captain Gathorne-Hardy is the fourth son of Lord Medway (heir to the Earldom of Cranbrook), and has been adjutant of his regiment. He served in South Africa in 1902 with the Imperial Yeomanry. He is unmarried. His eldest brother > the Hon. Captain Gathorne-Hardy, married Lady Dorothy Montague Boyle, daughter of the Earl of Glasgow. Captain GathorneHardy will escort Lady Plunket back to New Zealand via Canada. Her Excellency was born in Ottawa during the regime of her father, the Marquis of Duffenn and Ava, as Governor-General of the Dominion, and it is her intention to stay a week or ten days there, in addition to the time spent in travelling. According to present arrangements Lady Plunket will leave England on the 28th hist., and will arrive in New Zealand about August 18th. Lieutenant Edward Lyqn also served in South Africa. He is coming out from England by the Omrah, and will reach Wellington about the 17th prox.