Personal Items.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5120, 13 June 1907, Page 2

Personal Items.

Mr Fowlds left Auckland for Wellington yesterday. Mr J. R. Wilton, a S ulh Australian, is fifth wrangler in the mathematical tripos at Cambridge. Mr J. A. Smith, School Inspector, it examining several of the schools in tbit district.

S Our Waipukurau correspondent writer Tho friends of Mr Grosvenor will learn with regret that he is at present in the hospital to undergo an operation. Mr F. G. Massey, son of the leader of the Opposition, has passed his final law examination. Mr Massey is only nineteen years of age.

Lionel Terry, accompanied by foui warders, was removed on Saturday from Lyttelton Gaol to SeaclifF Mental Dis oases Hospital.

Tho many frionds of Mr F. J. Shanly will be glad to hear that he is well and is making good progress iu London. Mr Shanly says he is now on half tone negative work aDd collotype. Miss Jessie Bioknell, who has been appointed an inspector of Now Zealand hospitals, was trained as a probationer iu Nelson Hospital, and passed the first of her year in the State examinations for nureeß.

The district has lost another of its old settlers by tho death of Mr John Hobin, who passed a ray at Ruataniwha yesterday morning. The funeral takes place on Friday, and will roach the Hadley Cemetery, Waipawa, at 2 o’clock. A quiot wedding took place at the residence of Mrs James Clark, yesterday afternoon, when Mr Joseph A. Eaton, of Hastings, was married to Miss Mary. Duncan, of Elsthorpe. Rev G. K. Stowell was the officiating minister. Mr James Gillett, formerly Bret Harte’s mining partner, and tho original of Harie’B “Truthful James” iu his poem originally entitled “Plain Languago from Truthful James,” but commonly oalled “ The Heathen Chinee,” died on 13th April, at Sonora, California. A good story is going round of the inventive genius of Lord Kitchener. The distinguished Commander-ia-Chief desired, on tho occasion of the rocent visit of the Ameer of Afghanistan to India, to lay out an artistic garden for his gratification. Rare exotics and flowers of great variety of colours, tropical and sub-tropical plants, were brought to make the garden beautiful. One thing was lacking—there was no grass to give a finishing touch of verdure, and the few days available did not permit of procuring it. Then Lord Kitchener’s resourcefulness came into play. The garden was sown with mustard and cress seed, with the result that there was in due time a delightful greensward effect which astonished oil the visitors, and uot least the Ameer himself.