PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11853, 3 January 1902, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. W. Jennings, M.L.C./ was a pas- | senger from New Plymouth by the Ngapuhi i yesterday. ■ . | ■' Sir Frederick Sargood, Minister for De- J fence for the State; of Victoria/ will pay ! a visit to New Zealand at an early date, j accompanied by Lady Sargood.; -'.■■■■..: : | Owing to the departure of the Very ; Rev. Dean Grogan, of Napier, 'for a 12 j ■'.■' months' holiday, the Rev. Father Goggan '.;';; is ■: to be ; transferred from Wellington ;to Napier. ,''. ■ Major-General Babington, the new commandant of the New Zealand Forces, accompanied by, Mrs. and Miss Babington, ] are passengers by the R.M.s. Himalaya, which arrived at Albany from London yesterday. ''■'•■■'■'■'■'■-■::■: ,- '■;' : ; ■■, : „ /? -; The Rev. E. Eldridge, late of Knox Church, Lower Hut*, is at present supplying the. pulpit of Scots' Church ; Wooloo■win, Brisbane. He is sanguine that the climate of Queensland will fully restore -" Mrs.' Eldridge's health. : Mi", Ismay,. one :of the owners of the White Star line, who has been staying in ' Wellington for the past few days, left by train yesterday morning, en route to Auckland. • Mr. Geoffrey Drage/cx-M.P. for Derby;; also left Wellington for•; Auckland yesterday morning. _ , The Christchurch Cathedral Chapter has ' offered the -position of organist and choirmaster to Mr. J. C. Bradshaw-, Mus. Bac.. of Owen's - College,, Victoria University, associate of the Royal College of Music/ Kensington, and also of the Royal College of Music, Manchester, and the offer is; to be cabled Home. ' Mr. Bradshaw possesses ■\-.'high recommendations from several great musical authorities in England. Mr. Darling, late second engineer of the. . Waihcra, has been appointed chief engineer of thei Taie'ri. Mr. A. C. Winter, of the Wana'ka/rtakes his place.; Mr. J. Sinclair, jun.. late third engineer of the; Wanaka, tak'-s Mr. Winter's late position, and Mr. Jacobs, late third of the; Rosamond, has - been appointed third engineer of the Wanaka. ; Mr. \ Hunter will fulfil Mr. Jacobs'• position on the Rosamond. . '-. At St. Peter'? Church, Wellington, yesterday afternoon. Mr. Chas. Vince Hough-.. 'ton, 'manager for the New Zealand Shipping Company at Auckland, was married ; : to Miss Alice Mabel Rose, second daughter of Captain Henry Rose, formerly manager .''.'■ of the New Zealand Shipping Gomrmny at Wellington. The bride -wore a dress of ' 'white surah, and Limerick lace, besides a " " tulle veil ' and a wreath of wild roses and white heath, and carried a handsome Oouquet. The bridesmaids were Misses Mamie ,and Nellie Rose, sisters of the bride.-; They wore white muslin dresses, trimmed with insertion and lace, with scarlet . sashes twined in and out of the,skirts, and tied in a large butterfly bow in ~- front. The bodices were similarly trimmed, '■. having \. black waistbands and collars/They also -wore large black velvet hats, trimmed with ostrich feathers, and' black silk mittens, and instead of bouquets -carried scarlet fans,'' the gifts of the bride.' The bride's • gift to the bridegroom was a pair of gold links and a pearl pin, and the bridegroom's , gift -to 'the bride consisted of a gold locket, with a large diamond in the centre. --'• -.To the bridesmaids he gave a Ion" gold;. /;- chain each, and a gold scentball. Mr. W.. H. Rose, brother of the bride, attended the bridegroom./ The Rev. W. C. Waters officiated. After the ceremony a reception /was held at the Royal Oak' Hotel, where ;: . ;Captain Rose is staying. The honeymoon , .will be spent in journeying to Auckland overland. The. bride's going-away dre.?s was of cream, lined and strapped with pale green, arid trimmed with guipure luce, and feat to match. .; ■■■''~;"