PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13108, 17 May 1911, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Oxford University will confer a -octorship upon Sir Joseph Ward, says a London cable. Mr John P. Hayes, who has been on a holiday visit to. Auckland, has returned to Nelson. A Pahiatua Press Association wire states that Mr. J. C Cooper, who contested the Pahiatua seat three years ago, wi'.l bo unable to contest any seat at the general election. A New York cable says that Mrs. Taft, wife of the President, was so ill at New York on Monday that the President hastened to her bedside from Harrisburg. Mrs. Taft is suffering from a swere nervous breakdown. A lates desptch states that Mr Taft declares his wife's condition is not serious. A Southland pioneer lias passed away in the person of Mr. John Milne, who arrived at the Bluff in 1865 in the ship Jessie Gilbert. For many years h» was an hotel proprietor in Wyndham; Mr W. A. Shanly, a well known resident of Hastings, died on Friday ; in his seventy-fourth year. He arrived in Napier thirty-eight years ago, commencing business as a jeweller, thence removing to Hastings. The deceased was a violinist of uom© talent. A Wellington Press Association message states that Captain Hamilton, formerly 'A.D.C. to Lord Islington, was married at St Paul's proCathedral yesterday afternoon to Miss Enid Elgar, daughter of Mr and Mrs Chas. Elgar, of Featherston. Captain Hamilton is the only son of Lord Claude Hamilton, and is a nephew of the Duke of Abercorn. Mr. J. V. Roebuck, who has resigned from tho Lands and Survey Department in order to take a position as draughtsman under the West Australian Government, left Nelson yesterday for Wellington en route to Perth. Prior to his departure Mr. Roebuck was tho recipient of a Gladstone bag and dressing case from the local staff of the Lands and Survey office, the presentation being made by the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr R. T. Sadd).