PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9137, 9 February 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

! The Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Wallis) denies a report that he intends to retire, and eays he has not thought of such a etep. Mr W. H. Herries, M.P., told an Opotiki Herald representative the other day that he had disposed of most of his landed property, and intended to devote himself entirely to politics. The Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Railways, will visit Feilding in the first week in March in connection with the railway time-table. He will be the guest of the" Chamber of Commerce. Dr. S. Brown, senior house surgeon of tho Wellington Hospital, has resigned his position, in order to pay a visit to tho Old Country for the purpose of entering into research work there. The Napier Daily Telegraph's Hastings correspondent says the Ministerialists of the district are about to make a strong effort to induce Mr R. M'Nab to contest the Hawke's Bay seat at tho next elections.

It is probable that Mr Hall Caine. the novelist, will pay a visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1911. He is at present negotiating with the Manx Society in Melbourne, with the view to conducting a lecturing tour in the Australasian dominions.

Miss Julia Gilford (Mrs Robert Fitzsiminons), who will appear in Palmorston next month with Rickards' vaudeville company, is said to be delightfully pretty, a charming dresser, and an artistic einger. For some years ehe was one of the principals of an Opera Company in America.

A Press Association cable message received from London last night announced the death of Captain John Joseph Dunne, who was born in Queen's County, Ireland, in 1837. He was educated mainly on the Continent and at Jesuit schools, since which period he served hie country, and travelled the world over. He was wounded during the Maori insurrection in 1863-65, and was for a time a governor in 11. M. Prison service. A great writer, he contributed to innumerable periodicals both at Homo and abroad, while he was also an artist, painter, modeller, and black and white worker.

The Paekakariki Anglican Church on Friday last was the scene of a very pretty wedding between Herbert Leslie Langford and Miss Helena. Viola Jii6t, of Palmerston North. The bridegroom was supported by his brother, Mr Norman Langford. " The bride's wedding dress was beautiful, of a dark blue colour, and her travelling dress, of a rich purple hue, was exquisitively made. The bridesmaid was attired in a very pretty white dross. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. Edwin Jones. The marriage caused much interest in Paekakariki, the wedding party being saluted with whistling of engines and the firing of detonators, brought about by their friends of the railway. Mr and Mrs Langford left by the Wellington express to spend their honeymoon in the South Island.