PERSONAL ITEMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 15049, 30 November 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The engagement is of Norah, second daughter of Mr anjfl&rs Frank Armstrong, of Akitio, Ivan Knight, of Dannevirke. Her Excellency Lady Jellieoe and tha Honourable Lucy Jellieoe, now visiting China, are expected back in New Zealand about the middle of January. The Hons. W. Downie Stewart and D. H. Guthrie, accompanied by Mr A. D. McLeod, member for Wairarapa, were passengers from the north by the Main Trunk express this morning.

At a gathering of members of the Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society last night, Miss M. Cameron was unanimously nominated a-S the Society’s queen in the Gala Week Queen Carnival contest.

Sister May, matron of the Masterton Methodist Orphanage, left Wellington to-day on three months’ leave, which she will spend with her relatives in England. Sister Anne will be in charge during her absence. Mr and Mrs F. W. Temple expect tosail for England by the Ormonde fenm j Sydney in the middle of April. E^y'9‘ J sailing they will spend a week or tT/o with their son in Australia.

Constable Dunphy, who has been stationed at Pongaroa for some years, is under transfer to Napier. His successor will be Constable Mclntosh, of that town. Constable Dunphy was formerly stationed at Masterton.

During the week-end a painful accident befel Marjorie Turley, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs F. Turley, of Martinborough. Whilst jumping the child fell and broke her arm. She was removed to the Greytown Hospital.

A Melbourne cable states that Mr Oxenham, secretary of the General Post Office, has resigned, and has been succeeded by Mr H. P. Browu, of the British Post Office, who has been loaned to the Commonwealth during the past year. Leonard A. Seaton, aged 11, died in the Auckland Hospital yesterday as the result of injuries through a fall from a horse on a farm at Clevedon on Sunday. He was rounding up cattle when the horse stumbled, throwing hiiA on his head, resulting in concussion. -Ij&k Mr Robert Hunt, who died in land, was the father of Mr Horace Hunt. In 1893 deceased accepted the post of secretary of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, and for 29 years he watched over its fortunes. Mr Huut was foT a long time honorary organist to the Auckland Choral Society. Ho was also a member of the Masonie craft, and was a foundation.,member of the Lodge Remuera.

A wedding of interest was 'celebrated on Tuesday afternoon at Holy Trinity Church, Avonside, Christchurch, by the Rev. 0. Fitzgerald. The bride waa Bertha, youngest daughter of Mrs E. h'bson, Hill’s Road, and the bridegroom was David Charles Hamilton. Floranee, Professor of Physics at Victoria University College, Wellington, and youngest son of Mrs E. Floranee, Caledonian Road. The church was decorated with arum lilies and daisies by the children of the Sydenham school, where Miss Robson had been mistress. Dr. C. A. Cotton, of Victoria College, was the best man, and the organist was Mr A. Lilly. During the meeting of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation in Wellington an opportunity was taken to present the president (Mr T. Shailfii, Weston) with a handsome canteen table silver inscribed as follows:—"Presented to T. Shailer Weston, Esq., by the Employers’’ Association of the Dominion of New Zealand as a taken of their appreciation of his services to their organisation, and to commemorate the 'completion of his ten years of office as their president.” The presentation was made by Mr Bignell, of the Wanganui Association, in a short and felicitous speech, at the conclusion of which the gathering gave three cheers for the president and three for Mrs Weston.

A London cable states that the late Hon. Nathaniel Charles Bothschild left £2,250,000, on which duties amounting to £915,000 are payable. He left £lO,000 to the British Museum to pay the salary of the custodian of a collection of parasitic insects. Mr Bothschild in his will instructed that his funeral should be plain Ind simple, without an oration of special service, procession or display of any kind. He requested his executors to make sure that lie was dead by requiring a medical attemb*ufa to cut a vein or an artery. A his will states that parcels of marked “British entomological IoUHr ties” shall as soon as practicable after death be burned unopened. This is explained by the theory that rare specimens are only found in an extremely circumscribed area, perhaps a single meadow, -and Mr Bothschild apparently wished to ensure that such specimens should not be exterminated by persons merely seeking profit. Mr H. V. Lawry, the popular secretary of the Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society, who will leave next week on transfer to his head office in Wellington, was the guest last evening of the members of the Society at a gathering in the Park Kiosk. The opportunity was also taken to say “au revoir” to Mr H. P. Hugo (business manager) and Mr B. J. Young (musical director), who leave early in the New Year on a trip to England and the Continent. There were over sixty members and friends present, and the customary amateur theatrical freeness and genial spirit prevailed throughout the evening. The Mayor (Mr O. Pragnell), at a suitable interval, referred to the cessful record of the Society, especially since Mr Lawry had been secretary, and Messrs Hugo and Young had hnld their respective offices. Their poprAllity with the members bore eloquent timony to their tactful administration, and there was no doubt that their absence would be felt when the Society staged its annual performance in 1924. As an expression of esteem and appreciation for services rendered, Mr Lawry was presented with a. pocket wallet, while Messrs Hugo and Young received a pipe eaeh, the presentations being made amidst applause. An gnjoyabie dance was continued until midnight.