PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 936, 1 October 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

; The -period of full Court. mourning for. the late .King Edward terminated yesterday.'- ./-.The from , fUll'to-half-mourning ,to;.be,observed throughout . his Majesty's, service at Home and abroad will bo by : certain relaxations :> as regards '• "social amenities. For instance, his . Excellency and- Lady Islington .have not -been :in a position to - entertain:.; since; their arrival . owing' to'the 'full-mourning rule, but from -this i)h ihey "mayiat"their discretion' give re--,cept-ions, dinner' parties, etc;,';anything,; in fact, save, big balls. This cannot bo considered-, a; very 'great deprivation, asthe dancing sea-son is '.at' an ..end,' and; will not ■ commence - again .untjl next April. - The half-mourning period ■ extends up 'to. the end of May next in official ■ circles, ---after 7 which, social, life~ will'be' free of -the Restrictions mentioned. His Excellency, is to open a; new. riflo range at; Miramar this afternoon, and at the same time Lady Islington will preside' at . tho opening of the annual show of the. New Zealand Academy of ' Fine Arts. In the evening . his Excellency will; entertain ; the Ministry, •at dinner for the first time.;.;-Lord. -Islington has also - promised -to .put. in 'an- appearance at the! Boys' Institute sports to be' held on the Basin Reserve next Saturday. '';' /

Dr. Chappie, M.P. for North Stirlingshire, who is on a visit to New Zealand, was a visitor to the House of Representatives yesterday evening. Dr.; Chappie was formerly member for Tuapeka in the New Zealand Parliament.

Yesterday evening •-Mr. : Alex. , Low; late manager.for-Young's Chemical Comfpany.: wM'^presStted 2^^l ''thestaff- .with a suit case and travelling rug, also a travelling bagand rug for Mrs. Low, • upon the occasion of lis severing his connection with - Mr; and Mrs. Lowintend"' visiting ; the Old;,. Country in 'Fobruary of next Xwishes' were expressed, that in the interim Miy Low's health, 5 which: had not been ,too good of late,- would be fully restored., i The Rev. R. Evan Davies, M.Aij of,, Knox Churoh/ Dunediu, is at present in : Wellington, and will occupy the pulpit of Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church to-morrow. . ; The death occurred at Richmond, near Nelson, on Thursday -of ,Mrs. James Bell,: a very old colonist, at the age of 86. She' arrived by the ship Philip Lang, which was the first vessel to the Otago settlement, being one of thl. first : : Free ; Church, ■-.settlers;'-' in that province. ■ Shortly afterwards,she married, and came to. the Nelson district, where she has resided since.—Press; Association. i ... Tho lato Mr. Carl William Alvo, whose death at Rangitane was announced recently, was bom in the Rhine Province, Germany, in 1849, and cam© to New Zealand in the ship Gutenberg in 1875.1 After residing in the, Featherston district four or five years'ho. took up lahdat Eketahuna, and endured tho hardships incidental to the. early period'of - settling that district. After sixteen, years' • farming—principally dairying—in' the 'Forty Mile Bush, he went back to Featherston, but. did not stay there long, as he . acquired the farm at Rangitane, near Palmerston, where hie has 'resided ever since.

Mr. J; G. Phillips, who contested the Northern Maori; electorate' "■ at', the_ byelection 'which followed the death , of Air. Hone Hoke, M.P., has acceded to. a request to become a candidate : for, the same .'constituency at the next election. Mr] : Phillips intends-to reside in tho far north alter next February. ;