PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9507, 6 May 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Queen Alexander has returned to-Lon-don after a health visit to the Continent. The Prince of Wales will be invested with tho Order of tho Garter on Juno 10. Mr J. B. MurraV was last night reelected chairman of,the Wanganui Harbour Board.

Mrs Reed (wife of the late Dr. Reed) and Miss Reed, who were residing for, a few years in Palmerston, but of lato have lived in Sydney, are at present en a visit to this town.

Mr W, C. Smith, headmaster of the Grovotown School, Marlborough, ha 6 been appointed by tho Government to tho charge of educational affairs in tho island of Niue. ■ . ■

Mr H. P. Butts, manager of the Bank of Australasia at Wavorley, transferred to Gore, was yesterday presented, with a. puree of sovereigns by Waverley residents at the. Town Hall.

Constable T. Mahoney, of the Palmerston police force, who has been transferred to Wanganui, loft for that town to-day. The .-.'Vacancy here has teen filled by Constable B.'Henry, of Mount Cook Station, Wellington. A cable message from Australia announces the death of the Right Rev. Charles Edward Camridgo, AnglicanBishop of Bathurst, who euocumbed sud. denly from heart failure while writing a letter. He was the oldest Bishop of Australia; and was twice Acting Primate.

Two further-cases of appendicitis lave occurred in Palmerston during the present week. Tho victims are Miss Pole, who is now in a private hospital, and Mr W. Wood, junr., who is also in hospital, and was operated on to-day. Both are progressing favourably. The death is reported of a very old identity of Wanganui, Mrs Edward Hines, who had attained the ripe age of 85 years, and who, with her husband, who survives her, were among the pioneers of Bendigo, Gabriel's Gully, and the West Coast. In October last tho couple celebrated their diamond wedding. „„, At Dannevirke, yesterday, Mr G. Bickford, local manager of the Bank of New Zealand for fifteen years, was presented, at a representative meeting of settlers and townsmen, with an address and handsome souvenir as a mark of appreciation of his untiring services in advancing the interests of town and district. The presentation was made by Mr Hall, M.P. Mr and Mrs Bickford leave on Monday for England 'on a holiday tour. Mr Armstrong, a well-known resident of Foxton Line, has reached Salt Lake City, Utah, with his family, where they intend to reside permanently.—Tamihana, . for some years a- prominent native resident of Oroua Bridge, his wife, and two young Maori women are settled close to Salt Lake City. Mr Harris, a Mormon missionary in this district, who left Salt Lake City in October, said the Maoris were in good health when he camo away. They were contented and happy, and expressed the hope that they would be able to visit their friends in Manawatu in a few years. One of the native girls is at college and,is making good progress with her studies'. The funeral of Mr E."J. Riddiford took place at the Lower Hutt yesterday, and was attended by a largo number of relatives and friends of the deceased. The chief mourners were Messrs Vivian, Daniel, and Eric Riddiford (sons of the deceased), D. Riddiford (brother), and R. Riddiford (nephew), and Messrs 0. A., W., and E. P. Biinny. Local bodies and institutions represented were the Lower Hutt Borough Council, Hutt River Board, the University of New Zealand, Victoria College, and almost all the large companies, firms, and business houses of Wellington. Conspicuous among the gathering at the graveside was a party of Wair rarapa natives under their chieftainess, Niniwa Here. N(iia. ( Upwards of fifty wreaths and floral emblems were conveyed to the grave-yard in two carriages. They included one from the employees of each of the different stations owned by deceased.