PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11724, 5 August 1901, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mrs. W. R. Bloomfield was a passenger to Gisborne fey the TeAnau on Saturday. Mr. J. P. Firth, principal of the Wellington College, has been granted a year's leave of absence/ and : intends enjoying an extended holiday. Therefore, accompanied f * by Mrs. Firth, he will leave for England at the end of the present year. ' The ex-Mayor, Mr. D. Goldie, has been placed on the list of vice-presidents of the Auckland Scenery Conservation Society in ■■■' • place of Mr. . Jas Russell, who is absent in England. % Mr. Goldie was last year president of the society. . _ Mr. - Charles Shand, farmer, Te Houka, -was the other evening presented with a. gold albert and locket, and his wife with a. silver '- sugar basin, on the occasion of their leaving -'■'." Te Houka after a residence of 24. years. Mr. James Hogg (Balclutha) made the presentation'. An enjoyable dance was suose- ' quently held. Among the passengers by the s.s. apanui, which left Wellington for London last . week, is Mr. Leopold Mandel, son of Mr. Joseph Mandel, a young New Zealander, who, after spending some yearsi _the We lineton College, under Mr. LP- *«"*. 8.A., is proceeding to the Old Country to . ' pursue at Guy's Hospital Medical bchool 1 the study of medicine. A pleasing ceremony took place on Saturday morning last at the warehouse of Messrs. John Burns and Co., hardware merchants, < - Custom-street, when Mr. A. M. Paterson, one of the staff, who is leaving to take up an appointment in Christchurch, was presented with a, valuable souvenir by his fellow employees. Mr. Currie, who made the presentation on behalf of the hands, referred to Mr. Paterson's lengthy service with the firm, and to the marked good feeling which had always existed between the recipient and his fellow workers, and wished Mr. Paterson every success in his new appointment. Mr. Paterson responded, thankI '£ sv -:■: rag the donors. " On June 4, at St. Paul's Church. Cambridge. England, Miss ' Edith Sanderson, " elder daughter of Mr. S. La Trobe. of Hen-derson,-was married to Mr. Frank Ernest Workman, only son of Mr. Workman, of Woodchester Lodge, near Stroud. The church was prettily decorated with white flowers. The bride looked very lovely in si long-trained dress of pale creme silk, trimmed with Maltese lace and chiffon. She wore a white veil; and carried a shower bouquet of white roses, stephanotis, carnations, orange blossoms, and ferns. The bridesmaids —cousins of the bride— May Arrowsrnitb and Miss Florence Appleby, were in dresses of white over yellow, and wore picture hats of black chiffon and led roses, and carried bouquets of red carnations. The younger bridesmaids. Misses Muriel and Lorna Campbell, wore creme silk dresses, with hats to match, and carried „'... , -, baskets of Mareschal Neil roses and ferns. '~' t Each bridesmaid wore a gold and pearl brooch, the gift of the bridegroom. The bridegroom was attended by Mr. Eeginald (Hobday. The bride was 'given away by her brother, Mr. W. Sanderson La Trobe, M.A., of St. John's. , After the marriage a large number of friends assembled at Downing Grove. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. S.. La Trobe, Mr. Workman, sen.; Mr. Henry Workman, Miss Workman, I)r. and Mrs. Gordon Campbell, Dr. and Mrs. Stokes, the Rev. W. Watkins, the Rev. R. F. Smith, Mrs. Lamb, Mr. C. G. Lamb, Miss Huddleston, the Rev. .J Carnegie Mullin, Signor Nordone, Miss Van Oudtshoorn, Mr. and Miss AVkite, Mr. De . .Villiers, Mr. Durack, and Mr. Worrall. 'After the reception the newly-married;pair left for Sidmouth for the honeymoon. The bride's travelling dress, was of pale gray cloth, with stitched blue satin trimmings, and pale blue hat to match. The bride and bridegroom received over 140 valuable presents from friends in New Zealand, Egypt i: {America, and England. '