Personal Paragraphs.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue III, 21 July 1900, Page 130

Personal Paragraphs.

Lady Ranfurly gave a very large reception at Government House, Wellington. on Monday afternoon. The rooms were decorated with the usual exquisite taste displayed by the Countess, and everything passed off very successfully but for the contretemps which extinguished the electric light and plunged the rooms into darknesj at about five o'clock. Lamps and candles were, however, quickly procured and the rooms re-illuminated, though, of course, somewhat dimly. The incident caused much amusement, being regarded as rather a. good joke than otherwise.

Mr Matthew Runciman, eldest son of the Rev. D. W. Runciman, M.A., Auckland, who has been in Buenos Ayres for several years, is expected shortly on a visit to his relatives.

Mr Albert Field left Auckland last week to join the I’aparoa which left Wellington on July 12th for London.

Miss J. Runciman, of Auckland, is at present staying with Mrs J. Gray, at Khandallah, Wellington. The second Ponsonby “At Home” takes place in the Ponsonby Hall next Friday. As these dances are generally very popular a large number should be present.

Mrs Howard and Miss Maud Howard, of Auckland, left for Melbourne on Monday, where Miss Howard intends to stay for some time to continue her studies in singing. Mrs Black and Miss Winnie Cotter, of Remuera, Auckland, are at present staying at the Grand Hotel, Rotorua. The West End Lawn Tennis Club gave the first of the winter series of progressive euchre parties in the Ponsonby Hall on Friday last. The evening proved a great success. The Count and Countess de Courte have much enjoyed their stay at Rotorua, and speak highly of the spa as a health and recuperative resort. Mr. and Mrs. Dalgetty, of Christchurch, have been visiting Rotorua. Miss Rice, who has been spending some months amongst friends in Hamilton, has returned to Auckland.

Miss Arnaboldi, of Waihi (late of Auckland), has been presented with an illuminated address and a set of silver-mounted carvers by the members of the Presbyterian Church at Waihi.

Miss Rita Seale, of Hastings, is staying with Mrs. Hector Smith, Napier. Miss Kate Hitchings returned to Napier from the South last week. The Rev. W. Ready, of Auckland, went to New Plymouth on Thursday last.

Miss Hazard, a sister of Mrs. J. C. Parr, of Auckland, and Mrs. Clare, of Singapore, are on a visit to Auckland.

The flax-dressing experts, Messrs. R. Duncan, R. Gardener and J. Rutherford, arrived in Wellington from their Northern tour by the Zealandia last week.

Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Evans, who have been visiting Auckland, have returned to New Plymouth. Miss Biggs, who has been visiting her aunt. Mrs. Paul, of New Plymouth. has returned to Hamilton. Professor Wall and Mr. W. Izard have gone for a trip to the islands during the vacation. Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Morrison, of New Plymouth, were in Christchurch on Monday, and went North by the Flora on their way to Nelson, where they purpose spending a week before returning home.

Mr. and Mrs. Langley Shaw, of Napier, are spending a few days in the country in the Hawarden and Waikari districts.

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During- the stay of the flagship Royal Arthur in Wellington Admiral Pearson is the guest of Lord and Lady Ranfurly at Government House. His Excellency the Governor has consented to open the annual poultry, pigeon and canary show in Wellington on the 19th in st. As more than 900 exhibits have been entered for exhibition, the show promises to be more than usually successful. Miss A. H. Tasker, daughter of Mr. Tasker, of the Wellington Police Department, obtained first-ciass passes in her three subjects in the Victoria College, and Mr. Tasker has every reason to be proud of his daughter, who has won State and High School scholarships, matriculated twice, and also passed the junior and civil service examinations. and taken the first section of LL.B.

Miss Julius, daughter of Bishop Julius, Christchurch, is the guest of Lord and Lady Ranfurly at Government House.

Miss Lennox, of Remuera, returned to Auckland last week from the South, where she has been spending a prolonged holiday. LONDON ITEMS. Mr- and Mrs T. W. Leys and Miss Leys leave London to-day for Matlock Bath. Derbyshire, where they intend to spend some weeks at a hydropathic institution. Mrs Leys is better, and has been able to go out for drives and do a little mild sightseeing. The marriage of Miss Elsa Jessie Geraldine Levin and Mr Harry B. Vogel will take place on 10th July at the church of St. John the Baptist, at Old Malden. Mrs W. H. Levin will hold the usual reception afterwards at Tunstall House at Worcester Park in Surrey. A large number of New Zealanders have been invited to the wedding which promises to be a smart society function. Sir Walter Buller is to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Science at Cambridge next Tuesday. This degree is a much higher honour than the ordinary courtesy degree of L.L.D., as it is the University’s recognition of exceptionally meritorious work in

science. The last New Zealander to receive it was, I think, the late Sir Julius von Haast. when he was Commissioner for New Zealand at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. Sir Walter Buller with his son and daughter will be the guests at Cambridge of Sir Robert Herbert.

Private E. Toogood, of the New Zealand Mounted Infantry, who was invalided Home with a gunshot wound in the foot to the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, is, I hear from the AgentGeneral, quite well again. His only anxiety is to be sent back to South Africa again in one of the drafts going out. This martial and plucky spirit the Agent-General is endeavouring to gratify.

In a list of army doctors who hava won the V.C. the “Daily Chronicle” includes the name of Surgeon-General William George Nicholas Manley, C. 8., and Surgeon Lieut-Colonel W. Temple. The former won his cross at a Maori pa, Tauranga. New Zealand, in 1864. Assistant-Surgeon Manley was the last man to leave the pa after attending to the wounded. Dr. Manley is the proud possessor of the Royal Humane Society's, the British Ambulance and the Prussian War Medals, the Iron Cross, and the Bareariaai Order of Merit. Surgeon Lieut.-Colonel Temple, M. 8.. was assistant surgeon in the Royal Artillery in 1864. During the attack on the Maori stronghold at Rangiriri, New Zealand. Dr. Temple frequently crossed the fire zone to obtain water for the wounded men whom he attended to with so much skill and zeal. Since Old Oom Paul has gone to war. We’ll make it hot for every Boer. But soldiers find there’s else than lead To hurt a man or kill him dead. The hard, rough life, climatic ills. Are apt to bring on grievous chills. To ward off which there’s one thing sure, A dose of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. The marriage arranged between Mr John Forester Edwards, son of the late Rt. ITon. Nathaniel Edwards, of Nelson, N.Z., and Miss Doris Squier, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs John Enston Squier, of La Perouse, Sydney, Australia, at St. Peter’s Church, Cowfield. Sussex,

eventuates on June 27. Owing to the bride’s parents being in Australia, the wedding will take place from Oakendean, Cowfold, the residence of her aunt and uncle. Mr and Mrs Pearce Foster.