PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 523, 2 June 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Ikcelleney the' Governor and . Ladj Flunket are to motor froni Palmcrston North to 'Wellington this morning.. Lord'Plunket will go on to Lyttclton this evening to attend the annual Imperial function to be held there to-morrow, and will Also honour the Ohristchurck'Poultry Shaw with his presence. Ho expects to return to Wellington on Saturday next. 'Heir Excellcnc-los will. romaia here until June 12, the Governor possibly" a few days longer, v but ho will make a trip ujvoountry on Wednesday tiext to open 'the now Mnnawatu Gorge Bridge. With the exemption of tlio Hon. T, Maokenzie, who is at Dunedin, ahd the Hon. L T. Ngata, Who is at Tort Awanui, all tho Minister!! of, tho Crown are' in Wollingtoni Tho Hon. A. W. Hogg returned last night From n'short - Visit. to Blenheim. The 1 appointment of Dr. Valintine, In-spector-General of Hospitals, as Chief Health Officer in'placo of Dr. J. M. Mason, was announced yesterday. The house ilia of Messrs. W. and Q. Turubvdl and Go. was flown at half-mast yesterday'out of respect to Mr. S. S. Griffiths, tho. arm's' manager at Wanganui, who died there on' Monday.. '. : Dr.\ P. F'. M'Evedy, who was vice-captain of the Anglo-Wolsh football team which visited the Dominion last year, is about to commence tho practice of his profession in this city. ' ' '■"; '•'...' , .:.'. . Tlio Rev. Edwin A. Soott, until recently Archdeacon of. Uhristohurch, Now Zealand, is now on tlio stall' of clorgy at St: Mark's, Wolverhampton. Mr. Scott is a nephew' of the iato Aiohdcacon of unti' of Sit Gilbert Scott, tho famous architect. A largo number of well-known oitizens attended tho funeral.of tho, late Mr. James liiddick, yesterday afternoon. Among those present wcro if. prcsontntivos of tho Oddfellow Lodges of the city, in which order tho deceased had held high rank. ' Tho service at tho churoh was conducted by tlio Rev. J. It. Glasson, and at tho graveside the Oddfellows' burial sorvico was recited by flro. John Kershaw. Tho following nominations have been received for tho vacancy on ■ tho Wellington District Land Board, caused by the retirement (by offltixion of time) or Mr. J. M. A'CoUrt:—Messrs. J. M. A'Oourt, Sanson; R. Bonld, Johnsoiiville; J. Brenincr, Ruanui, Mataroa; H. T. Ellinghaia, Horoeka; L. Heulbrooke, Waterfalls; A. J. Jobhn, Tuhoroa, Huntervillo; C; M'lntyre, R&ngi. wahiaj W; M'Lcnnan, Taibapo; T. H. ; Hobinsoh, Taihtino. , Sir Francis Caradoo Rose Price, Baronet, Whoso Wedding to Miss Marjorio Russell, daughter of Sir William Russell, took place at Hastings yosterda.V, is tho fifth Baronet of tho namo, tho baronetcy having been created in' lblS.. The pbpraKe,recordß.that ho is second lieutenant in tho Glamorganshire Territorial Yeomanry, lato lieutenant in tho Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and that ho served in South. Africa during the, years 1900-1. Ho is tlio son of tho third baronet, and was bom in 18S0, and in 1901, ou tho death of his elder brothor ( ho succeeded to tho title. Several years before the. death of Sir Francis Price's father—Sir Rose Lambart Price—Lady Price, his mother, assumed for herself and her sons the namo of FriDe-Fothorgiil—a nnrto which, they aro entitled to hear while in possession of tho rlonsol Estates, but her son,. the present baronet,!'has registered his namo m tho , Army List as "Prico" simply,