PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8187, 31 July 1912, Page 7

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. The following received invitations to a dinner party at Government House yesterday:—Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister) and Mrs Massey, Hon. J. Allen, lion. W. U- Ucrrios, Hon. A. L. Herdman and Mrs Hordman, Hon. W. Fraser, Hon. F. M. B. Fisher and Mrs Fisher. Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, Hon. H. D. Hell, K.C., Hon. Dr M. Poraaro and Mrs Pomare.

Mrs Massey and tho Misses Massey (twol arrived by the Auckland express yesterday. Together with Air Massey they are staying at the Occidental Hotel.

Second-Incut. T. E. R. Symons, of the Grenadier Guards, hay boeii Appointed an aidc-dc-camp to Lord Islington. The Wellington Football Club last evening made presentations to two old members—Messrs F. N. Abercrombie and IV. J. Hill—who are leaving Wellington for Auckland.

Mr M. Marcus, manager for the Rickards Vaudeville Company, arrives in Wellington to-day in charge of the organisation opening at the Opera House to-night. Mr Marcus will stay at the Hotel Cecil. Mr and Mrs Erie Riddiford.Miss Maria Bauchop, -Mr -Miles and two daughters, Mr Corrigan, Miss Stewart. Miss Elsie Simpson, and Mr AI. Kilgour, all of Wellington, wore among tho guests present at the trooping of tho colour at Whitehall, on Friday, Juno 14th.

Air Chas. E. Sligo, late of Pahiatua, has loft Scotland, where he stayed with relatives in Perth, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, returning to London. He hopes to undertake a cycling tour through Samel-set, later probably visiting Canada.

Mr George A. Field, of Wellington, and his wife arrived in London by tho Friedrich do Grosse at Easter, after an absence of over thirty years. Mr and Mrs Field have spent tho interval in visiting relatives and friends, and in touring in Yorkshire, the English Lake district, and elsewhere. It is their intention to leave for New Zealand by the Kuahiue early in August. Our London correspondent writes:— Colonel A. W. Robin, of tho New Zealand staff corps, is in London, and will pay a lengthened visit, as ho is to represent New Zealand on tho Overseas Dominions section of tho Imperial General Staff, an organisation with tho object of bringing the overseas defence forces into closer touch and uniformity with those of the Mother Country. Col. Robin spent some time in Canada before coming to England in order to further his knowledge of that Dominion before starting work here. Mr Albert H. Sutcliffe, of Palmerston North, arrived in London on May 4th with his daughter. Miss Rita Sutcliffe, who has been very ill, and was ordered by her medical adviser a long sea trip (writes our London correspondent). They have visited relatives in Manchester and Blackpool and go to Norway to visit friends. There they expect to be for about a month, and on their return they rest for a week and then go on the Contient for a month. Devonshire and other parts of England will' later be visited before Mr and Miss Sutcliffe return to Now Zealand, via Vancouver, early in November.

Many Australians, says the “Daily Chronicle," have been surprised to learn that, tho widow of their most renowned poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, is still alive, and it has been sensibly suggested that they should provide her with a pension before erecting a statue of her husband in Melbourne, ns they are about to do. Soon after her husband’s death Mrs Gordon unwisely parted with tho copyright of hia works for a very small sum, so that sho has received no pecuniary benefit from the large sale of tho poems of the "Laureate of the Centaur, both in England and Australia, during recent years. Mrs Gordon is a native of. Glasgow, and she married the poet in 1864. She is now Mrs Lowe. Under date June 21st the London correspondent of tho "New Zealand Times” writes:—Among the students of Cambridge University who figured prominently in the class lists issued last Saturday were six New Zealanders, each of whom have taken an honours degree. Mr N. M. 8011, of Christchurch, took first-class honours in classics; Mr E. J. Wilson, of Auckland, a first in modern languages; Mr C. M. Sevan Browne, of Christchurch, second-class honours in natural science; whilst Mr H. T. Morton, of Auckland, Mr A. C. Jacobs, of Feeding, and Mr A. E. Stout, of Wellington, obtained both Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts degrees with honours in both. Well done. New Zealand! The degrees wore conferred on Tuesday last.

A crowd of passengers always congregate on the bow of the steamers passing through the French Pass for the purpose of viewing the pilot fish "Pelorns Jack." A beautiful snapshot has been taken recently and is now on sale at. Shariand and Co.’s Photo Store, Lambton quay. *