PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 2846, 15 June 1896, Page 2

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The wpddin|r of Princess Marguerite of Orleans and' Commandant MafiMahpn’ tpok plape PS April 23rd in the phapel of the Chateau at Chantilly, before a brilliant company, wbp came down by special train from Paris. The Abbfi de Beauvoir addressed the couple, alluding to the parentage of illustrious blood and martial deeds on both sides. A lunch was afterwards given at which the Duo d’Aumale presided. There was a great show of officers in uniform from neighbouring garrisons.

Mr “Jack” Baillie, the popular young Wellington artist, has arrived in London, and is making many acquaintances in literary and art circles, ./ Mr Baillie moans to spend July at St. Ives, wliejre the Newlyu School most do Congregate. It is a well nigji ideal community, and a stqy there shpqld be of the greatest yalqo tp the New Zjealander.' fCe brings (writes our London correspondent) a number of h'S pictures with him, I understand, and talks ot exhibiting them at one pf the Bond street galleries. District Judge Ward arrived from the South by the Penguin yesterday. One of the sights of S.E. London just now is Sir John Gorst with tails flying and a pothat, tooling along a /bright vermilion bicycle. The machine is believed to he the only one thus coloured in the metropolis. Mr E. Dobson, an old Blenheim “ boy,” has taken over the Yea Chronicle newspaper (Victoria}, the proprietorship and editorship pf which M r Galvin recently resigned on ap?;qirmg the Pfawera Post. Mr Dobson has or some years past held thp part proprietorship of the Seymoqr Telegraph. Constable Mo Auliffe, who left for Invercargill op Saturday night, was presented by his pororadps in the police lores with a silver mounted walking stick, suitably inscribed, frier to bis departure, the presentation being made by Sergeant Stagpool,