Personal Items.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 36, 12 February 1904, Page 2

Personal Items.

Many Royal relatives of the Huke of Tecl; and Princess Alice, of Albany lire arriviii). at Windsor foithe wedding cei'enionies there. 'IVo pupils of t| K . Convent Schools, Dora Hedford and I Wis Hoy, have been awarded secondclass certificates for shorthand writing. Owing to the death of Mr Powell Williams, M.V. for .South Birmingham, Mr Chamberlain will not visit the House of Commons prior to his .depa/i'tui-e for j'F'gvpt. K. .10. I-'oster, -the Fnglisii ciickebor now in Austvali'a with Warner's team, derii's a rmnour rei-eiil-l.v published in „ ,\,. H . Zealand paper to- the eli'ect. that lie intended to settle in tiiis colony Mr t!eo Lumsden, for manvvears a promiiienl public main of inverca.rgi'll. fur-ine'ly a f.iember of jth,. I'r-o'vincial Council and deiieral Assenrbly, died yesterday, having nearly completed his S'.Hli year, lie was given t'ae names of '••|li ))l ,..st Ceorge," and (from a resemblance to the late W. F. (UadsUme) ••Southland's U.d.M." A London cable announces the death of the Hev. Altivd Ain-rcr M.A., i..1,.11., Master of the temple' He was I. ,01-n, in 18117. and he had hvMii M'ius-Um- of the Tyinplle Is-ncu 18H1, and was Chaplain in Ordinary to the King. Among his literary work was a ■'Memoir of Uiinb." Tiie livv. 11. Hull (Co-nnexionnl Secretary of the N.Z. Wesleyan Cliurclr) was a iii.sseiig.-r by last'n-igihCs steamer for Auckland. Mr Hull Ims important -busiin-ss eugugemeiits in the Aucklanld district previous to the sessions of (.-1,,, conference which opens on March fti>il. He was accompanied by Mrs Hull. During, the stewards' luncheon at the raivs yesterday Mr Oliver Saini.'el, President of the Club, briellv proposod n toast, the health of Milt, h. Stanford, hi doing so lie relerred to the many occasions ilnringscnern years past on which Mr Stan-lord |„„| | MVII . iux , wnl , u tJ laranak, J.o. meetings. 'Phe toast twin drunk enlluisiasfirullv with musical honours, followed' by three hearty cheers. Mr .Stanfo-ixl, in replying, said he bail always secured '""ch enjoyment on the Tarannki idceiourt**-iuw men had exjiei-ieneed I'iQi'e iileasiire than he. ]„ thanking Hie geivtiemeu present for the kind manner in which the toast had lj m soured, he said thnt who'^M," "ni i,. ,'h T('' l,lvvnys u "" ttl(1 th « laianaki J.C. as a pattern club.