PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 20, 28 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Their Majesties King George and Queen Mary, visited Neustrelitz. Despite her 91 years of age, the Duchess of Mecklenburg came to the station. Their Majesties had a hearty popular reception, and returned to Berlin in the evening, where they witnessed the new opera, “Kerkyia, based on the Kaiser’s explorations.

Sir Joseph and Lady Ward gave a dinner party on Saturday, evening at the Trocadero (states a London correspondent writing on the Oh ult.) and then took a party of people on as the guests of Mr Urban, proprietor of the kinemacolour process, to the Scala Theatre, to witness a special production of New Zealand pictures in colour, the first of their kind to be shown.

The marriage of the Khedive’s second daughter, Princess Fatieh Hanem, who is aged fifteen, with Djelal Eddine Pasha, Kapoa Khatuda ■'Agent) of the Khedive at Constantinople, and son of the former Grand Vizier, Ferid Pasha, took place on March 27. The bridegroom gave about £20,000 to the bride, who will also receive an allowance of about £3OO a month. The mother of the Khedive presented the bride with jewels and the like to the value oj about £20,000.

Queen Victoria of Spain probabh lias the most remarkable telephone in the world. It is of solid silver, with a gold transmitter, and is supported by four bronze Hercules figures, be tween which a boy leaning against a Spanish coat-of-arms is conversing hj telephone (a golden wire) with an English" girl in close proximity to f British lion. Above the mouthpiece are two goddesses in angel attire. One may well ask if it is possible to get the wrong number on such a contri vance. The Queen never does, for this work of art stands on her Majesty’s writing table and connects with the royal nursery. •

Tho Hon. Thomas Mackenzie (HigV Commissioner) on instructions frorr New Zealand, has just appointed twenty-five nurses (probationary) for mental asylums in the Dominion, and the following are sailing shortly writes a London correspondent:—Mis? Lilian Marshall, by the Paparoa; the Misses Mabel F. Miller, Charlotte Keb bell, Marjory Newton, Emily Paice, Lmiisa Stannard, and Violet E. B White, by the Remuera, on May Bth : the Misses Gertrude and Winifred Airlie, Mary C. Clark, Gertrude A. Quinton, and C. M. ifelsmere, by the RiUghine, on June sth ; and the Misses Caroline M. Sellars, Nina O’Flynn Caroline' Meadows, and May H. Anderson, by the Tainui, on June 19th, All have had previous experience ir mental nursing.