PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 January 1926, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Alice Fergnssou 2m ve arranged io visit Rotorua next month, arriving tliere on Wednesday, -/February 3rd, and staying on until 'ihe following Tuesday, when they will leave for the East Coast by way of Wtokatane- and Opotiki. On -SaturdSjr, February 13th, they will ar,xive at Matahia Station, Tokomaru Ray. From there they will attend the Maori gathering at Tikiitiki, during the ■course of which the carved memorial church will be consecrated, and the l»anument to the Maori soldiers of the iVigatiiporon tribe will be unveiled by ■llls Excellency. On Wednesday, February 17th, their. Excellencies will go to Gisborne, and will remain there .an-, ‘.til the following Saturday, when tluy will leave on their return journey, arriving at Hamilton on Tuesday, February 33rd. At the end of the month their Excellencies will return to Government House at Auckland, ow* 3£ r C. F. Redman, formerly of arrived at Wellington today' from Australia by the Maunganui. A quiet wedding was solemnised at Kohunui when Mr Argo Flutey, the well known Tuhirangi footballer, was married to Miss Rita Payne, niece of Mrs T. Te Whaiti, of Kohunui. Mr H. G. Monro, of Dunedin, the -well known All Black footballer, who is at visiting Masterton, will play lawn tennis tournament on • Thursday.

Mr G. McKay has been appointed manager of the Wairarapa team to •contest the Wellington, provincial athletic. championships at Wellington \on January 30th. Dr. Helen Bakewell and Miss May Kane leave by the Maungamii thia week for Sydney, where they join Mrs and leave for Naples by the •Orvieto. They intend spending son;; time in the south of Italy.-Field-Marshal Lord Allenby and Lady Allenby will arrive in Auckland by the Uliinaroa from Sydney on Tuesday, January 26th, and will stay at Government House, Auckland, before leaving for the tsouth on a tour of both Islands. . Mr Zaire Grey, the well known Californjan novelist, accompanied by Captain L. D. Mitchell and his wife, of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, ar.-.l Mi <3 M. K. SiAfi, of New Y-orlt City, arrive 1 at Wellon by the Makuia yesterday. 'They- left for Auckland by the daylight Limited this morning. The wedding teak place at St. .John’s Church, Fc.itherston, on Sunday morning, of Mr Robert* L. Baker, only son of X Mr and Mrs R. Baker, of Hastings, and Miss Marjorie Wakely, second daughter of Mrs W. Wakelv, of Kelvin Grove, Feafhorston. The bride was given away by her uncle, Mr H. Wakely. -of Waitara, and was attired in white satin, with the orthodox veil and orange blossoms 1 , and carried a shower bouquet of carnations, gypsophila and roses. She was attended by Miss M. Baker, who wore a frock of pale blue •crepe de chine, and Miss G. E. Wakely, .attired in almond green crepe dc chine. Both carried bouquets to tone. Mr R. P. Baillie was best man. Sydney has been excited over a marriage which recently took place there. The bridegroom was Prince Louis-Cosa. r- V ido r-Maurice de Broglie, son of the Due de Broglie, Prince of the (Holy Roman Empire, who was born ii . DiepjLt in 3892. The bride was Millie. J Mar jßJ&Yntoinette Aussenac, solo pianist with Dame Clara Butt and Mr Kc-n----aierley Rumford, who are appearing in Australia, and are shortly duo here in New Zealand. The honeymoon w.is spent at Kato-ombn. Mile. Aussenac was born of French parents at Lisa or. 'On leaving the Conservatoire in Paris, -where sire studied under Duvernov's tuition, she toured Europe, appearing under the direction of such masters as <he villa rd in the Lambreux concerts 3!t Paris, Vincent d’l ndy at Brussels, Richard Strauss in Berlin, and Per -z Casas in Madrid. Sir London Ronald, -writing to a friend of the new princess, said: “Ml-ie. Aussenac is one of phe most beautiful artists I have listened to for years.” It is probable that Mile. Aussenac will accompany the Rutt-Rumford concert parly to New .Zealand. s» • Maurice Patrick Malone, of Frasertown, who, while on a visit to Hastings, died on Saturday under peculiar •circumstances, was a soldier settler, sinfijfcvas 30 years of age. He was one of jfffamily which bore a splendid war record. His father, a prominent solicitor in Taranaki, left with the Main Body, and as Colonel Malone, Bi-iga-•dier of the Wellington Regiment, was killed at Cliunuk Bair on the day of the famous landing at Suvla Bay/ His •oldest brother left with the Main Body, sand was Inter killed in France; the second brother was with the first landing contingent at Samoa; he and his remaining .brother were wounded in Palestine and France respectively, -while his only sister drove a motor ambulance in London. After being invalided home he was under treatment for gome time, and on demobilisation drew -ar. allotment at Ardkeen, Eraser-town, Wairou. About five years ago he marine d-ft-he second daughter of Dr. Paget, <■£ Stratford. He is survived by his -wife and one little girl.