PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8536, 17 March 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lady Plur-.kcr was n piisscngor for the North' by the express to-day. Mrs W. Miiler, wife of tho ( Rev. A. Miller of Ngariiuwiihiii, Auckland, was seized with illness while ;;t tea in the immse. and expired in a few mmiilcs yesterday. Mr P P Bigwood. managing director of" the Wellington Pony and Galloway Raciii"- Club, was a visitor to Palmerston |..-ilny. He returned to Wellington this iiftcrnoon. The Governor and his staff arrived in Auckland from New Plymouth this ]i,v>"ning. To-morrow, with the I relrtier. he attends the Maori gathering ar W:\haroa. Mr 11. D. 8011, K.C., Crown Prosecutor in Wellington, has been granted leave of absence for twelve months to proceed to the- Home Country. Mr M. Myors has been appointed to act as ("rowif Prosecutor during hi 3 absence. Mr Stringer, Crown Solicitor, of Chnstehiirch. has also been granted leavo of absence. A v.edding which created considerable interest was solemnised at St. John's Presbyterian Church, Wdlir.gteTi. on Saturday afternoon, when Mr E. A. J'.lundoli. eldest son of the late Mr Henry IMundcil. of Ihe Evening Post, km mar.-2-k'd to Miss Linda McLean, daughter ot Mr Neil McLean, of Wel;tngton, by the Rev. J. Paterson. The Premier arrived in Auckland from The South this morning. Ho proceeded to Ngaruawahia, where he will attend ilvj regatta to-morrow. He will meet the Maori Land Commissioners, and accompany them to Wahnroa to consider Ihe Maor'i petition to the King regarding Maori rights, and returns to Auckland on Thursday. He remains there four or five days.

Mr A. C. Holms, one of four young follows who left Featherston last year for British Columbia, writing to a friend in I'Vathrrston, under date January 29th, .stales that S. Smith is now in Atlin. Alaska. W. Turnbull is at. Lakt* Bunfz.mi. and J. Crowther is in Vancouver with Holms. The majority of football (cams in British Columbia, says writer, are now playing the New Zealand game, and the representative team was coached by W. S. Morrin, one-time Auckland player. Three Now Zealand<>r.< ji.ro members of one of tho prominent teams. —Mastertou Times. An old Imperial soldier named James Lactin, an inmate of tho Old Men's Home, died early on Saturday morning sit tlis age of 76 (says an Ashhurtoii Press Association message) Deceased ioined the 86th Regiment in 1850. and went through the Indian Mutiny under Brigadier Stewart, lie then joi::od the S3:d Regiment, and subsequently ■.;.e's7th Regiment (Hampstoad Foot Fiwihor:;), v.-ith which ho was before Pekin with tin- allied English av<\ French armies m 1860. He also .served in Japan and Burmali. and hold'the Indian Mutiny medal .-uirl medal and clasp for good, conduct and long service, lie arrived i:i New Zealand in 1874. He will be accorded a military funeral today. The French Government has arranged for a congress of gentlemen representing the freezing industry in all parrs of the world, to be held at- Paris in the course of the next month or two. An invitation was sent to New Zealand to be rep reSfiiied. .and Cabinet on Saturday appointed Mr Gilbert Anderson, formerly manager of the Christchurch Meat Company, An tho position. 'Mr Anderso::. who ha:been in England since 1906, i.s o:\o ot the brst-known figures in connection vyitii the freezing industry of this Donumon. lie had much to do with the_ # eetabhshjiient' of the present system of grnair.g. nnd was the prime mover in establishing the West- of England steam service from \(».,v Zealand. Mr Anderson wan riuui-a»-m"- director of the Christchurch Mo;it Company until 1906. when ho asceprrd ;i position in connection with the industiy in London.