PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9184, Issue 9184, 7 April 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Inspector Wilson, head of this police district, was a visitor to Palmerston to-day.

Mr T. P. Blake, who has lately disposed of his Kelvin Grove property, left Palmerston yesterday on an extended trip abroad.

Mr J. Craigic, M.P., and Mayor of Timaru, was a visitor to Palmerston yesterday. Mr Craigie is on his way to Auckland.

The Bishop of London and Canon Newbolt have recommended the Rev. liarry i). Burton, of St. Albans, England, for appointment as the vicar of St. Michael's Church, Christehurch, in succession to Bishop Averill. The Rev. Burton was ordained in 1831 and is a widower with six daughters. i Very many friends throughout Hawke's Bay will learn with deep regret of the death, at Gisborne, on Sunday, from typhoid fever, after a very short illness, of Mr Lionel Gordon Saxby, in his 35th vear. ' Mr Saxby, who was the eldest son of Mr G. 11. Saxby, rcccntly of Napier and now of Auckland, born at St. Lawrence station, Hawko s Bay, nd educated at the Napier Boys' High School and War.ganui College, lie was an ardent footballer and a first-class athlete. The. late Mr Saxby had resided in the Poverty Bay district for the past eight years as manager of Mangataikapua station. He leaves a widow (a daughter of the late Sir James llcctoi) and one child. On Tuesday, at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs R. Johnston, BrookHold." Waverley, in the presence oi a lorge number of guests, Miss Eveline Maud Johnston, fourth daughter of Mrs R. Johnston, and Mr John Gook, ot Glen Oroua, were married by the Rev. Mr Mclvor. The bride looked charming in a beautiful white 6ilk dress, richly trimmed with a panel of tucks and lace and pearl, the yoke and sleeves being of tucked chiffon. Tho two chief bridesmaids were Miss Ruby Johnston, sister of the bride, and Miss Flossie Arundell. The bridegroom was attended by his brother. Mr E. Cook, and Mr A. Johnston. The presents were numerous and costly. The usual toasts wore honoured at the wedding breakfast, after which the happy couple went south for their honeymoon.

The "Lady of the House," a Dublin journal, in a recent issue, says: " Lady 'Plunket, who has lately taken a house at Cheltenham, where Lord Plunket join her on his return from New Zealand, had a somewhat uncommon hobby as a girl—namely, collecting cleverly designed picture posters. While her father, tlie tote Marquis of Duft'erin. was British Embassador -to France, Lady Plunket "■ot- together a fine collection of French poster.?, executed for wealthy business linns by prominent French artists. _ All that time artistic posters were practically unknown in the British Isles, and the comparatively recent improvement in this form of advertising is due to an enterprising English manufacturer who studied 'in Paris the methods under which pictorial advertisements wore executed there. Ladv Plunket brought all her pictures to Old Conna Bray, after her marriage, and lhe room in which they hung was oiten visited by her friends."