Personal Items.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5119, 11 June 1907, Page 2

Personal Items.

Mr William Waldorf Astor has given four London charities £IO,OOO.

Mr Clement L. Wragge, the wellknown rnetoorologist, was in April camping in tho Himalaya Mountains. Lady Plunket is to leave England on her return to New Zealand on the 28th iast.

Mr J. Graham, strtionmastor at Kaikora, commenced his annual leave od Saturday, and is being relieved by Mr P. N. Wallace, relieving stationmaster. A piivate lettor received in Wellington states that Mr P. W. Robertson, the Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand for 1905, spent his Easter holidays very profitably in visiting Nuremberg, Heidelberg and Munich. The long vacation at Oxford begins next month, and it is probable that Mr Robertson, who was in the best of health when the last mail left, will avail himself of the opportunity to pay another visit to the Continont.

Word has just come to New Zealand that Mr Duncan Stout, the third son of the Chief Justioe, has won the Sands Cox prizo in physiology at Gay’s Hospital. It is tenable for three years, and is valued at £ls per yoar. He has also got a proficiency prizi for the term Three were declared equal. Mr Stunt bad 875 marks, A. W. Cox 874, and W. Gardiner 860 They were declared equal, and tho tv* o prizes divided. The prizes awarded are worth £ls each. Mr Stout won last year an open science scholarship.