PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 September 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

'The Governor-General land Lady Alice Fergussori motored from Pic.ton to Blenheim yesterday morning. They were met on the outskirts by the pipe band and played to the Square, -where the Mayor and chairman of the County Council officially welcomed Their Excellencies to the. district. The ViceRegal party were entertained at luncheon and inspected -tlie various points of .interest. Last night there was a public welcome and reception :at the Town Hall, and a further round of festivities has -befell arranged for today, to-morrow and -Saturday.

A message from Perth announces the .fleath' of Mr. ®. T. Robinson, K.C., forfiler Attorney-General and Minister of Mines in the Lefroy (West Australian) Government, aged 54. Mr. IR: Page, chief light-keeper at Qaipe Palliser, has -been transferred to Kahuraiigi, on the West Coast of the South Island. Mr. Saunders has been appointed to Cape Palliser.

The engagement is announced of Mi-ss Gwen Price, daughter o.f Mr. J. J. Faulkner, Hastings, and Mr. C. Hales Yallance, second, son of Mr. and , Mrs. C. i l . Vallance, Kalyumanga, Masterton.

A cablegram from, London reports, the’ dfea'th : of (Lord Melville at .the ,age of jS3.' ; 'He was the son of - the- Bfev. Ohfirles Dundaspof (Bpwortli> -Lincolnshire, and sucefe'feded-to- the.title on the death 'of : his brother in 11904.' 5? He -was married'three 'times and leaves ai widow foiir Sons, and "two 'daughters. His heir is -tlie Hbn. Henry Gc-C. Dundas, ■Whio'ls ’British Consul''at Ajaccio, Corsica. .. ' "

A Christeliureii 'telegram' announces the death of Mr., William -Garrard, aged 90 years. Deceased was well-known to old-time -sportsmen. He came to New Zealand sixty years ago "and settled at Nelson till 1874, when he removed to Christchurch, where he remained till 'the time of his death. His -sons are Mr. W. -G. Garrard (Christchurch), Mr. Joseph Garrard (Lyttelton, manager of Kinsey and Co., Mr. C. W. Garrard, chief inspector of, schools (Auckland), land Mr. H.' F. , (Jurrard (Christchurch). M

, A quiet wedding was recently sol.onjnised at Kuripyni .Church, Masterton, when Ada, only daughter of Mi'. E. : and the'late Mrs. L. Hardiugham, of Ilomeibush, Masterton, was married to Mr. George -Health, eldest, son of Mrs. and t-he late Mr. G. Health, London, the Rev!' Bullock offieiatiiigrTk erJxrid e, who was given away by her father, wore a frock of navy -blue taffetas with collar , and cuffs of rosewood georgette,■and blue crinoline hat trimmed- with shaded flowers and blue- velvet ribbons. She carried a. dainty Victorian posy. Miss 'B. McKenzie, of Masterton, attended as bridesmauL Mr. A.' Hardingham was best man, and Jacksoil : groomsman. • \ : . ; v. ■'•i The deatn occurred at Mangatainoka. yesterday .-of Mr. Waltei' -..Edwaid Gicaves,' at t'fie age :: 0f W years, alter a 'long illness, he was- boiri in W«l----iiiigton in 1^59,'‘ ' At‘ tKfe of - ten jjfears.ke came, to Masterton, and when >7 years oi.d removed lo Woodville,' where he" was in -business .as a. painter and epapefhanger. ■ At Wpoilyihe he was married to; Miss Saiah . Ann Pitt-, finis, and 39 yeans ago he 'took up his residence fit Mangatainoka, where lie remained to his death. -He leaves a widow and ten children, five sons and five daughters as under —Walter John (Petone), Joseph William (Pahiatua), Clarence ‘Howard (Pahiatua), Sidney Frances, (Miangatainoka), Hubert Ivan (Mangatainoka), Mrs. F. Baker" (Petone), Mrs. J. Liekford (Napier), Mrs. J. Neil (Petone), Miss G. M. Greaves (Petone), and-Miss M. Greaves (Mangatainoka). ,