Personal Items.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3544, 8 July 1905, Page 2

Personal Items.

To-day marks (he anniversary of thtf birth ot the Right H in.* Joseph Chamberlain in 1,536. Mr G. H. Moore, one of Canterhiuv’s oldest- settlers/ died yesterday,

•*•102. Si]- William and Lady Russell left England by the Athenic on July z»t, vi (heir return to New Zealand.

The follovdng have been nominated for the vacancies on the Wanganui Education Board :—? Messrs Edwin Dixon, John Jarvis F. V. Lethbridge, Hugh Mclntyre, M.A., L.L.8., Fred. Pirani, Jus. Smith. The late Lady Bloomfield was a Maid of Honour, and published a book of reminiscences relating some very intimate incidents of her years alt Court. The result, the London correr* nondent of the “Manchester Guar* dlan ” tells, was that the Queen forbadit her ladies to keep diaries while they were in waiting, and from that rule grew one of the neatest repartees that the heart of the professional diarist could desire, A young lady wh® had just been appointed a Maid of Honour was receiving congratulations it a party, and her host said : “ What m interesting journal you can keep ! ’’ The girl told him that journal-keeping was forbidden, and the answer was ; “ But I think I should keep one all tha same.” “ Then,” said the gjrl, “ whatever yon were you would not be 3i Maid of Honour.”

MrWhite'law Reid, the new ambassador to Great Britain,* was the guest of honour a! a farewell dinner given bv the Republican Club, says Reuter’s New York correspondent. “ Nobody," he said, “ needs now to life told of clasping hards across the seas or of common blood or literature to know that Great, Britain and the United States in the nature of things inevitably sustain peculiar relations towards each other, which are not held by either with any other nation, that they arc now on very good terms, and that from this time onwards the better thejp know each other and the morajfrequenit and intimate their intercourse th« better and the more enduring will b(! the good understanding between them.” Mr Reid went on to argue that, however pleasant the praises of the country to which he was sent might be to an ambassador, hisi superior and imputative duty was to look after the interests of his own country, and the greatest of these in« teresfs was peace—the peace of justice,’* Sir Percy Sanderson, the British Consul-General, who next spoke,, assured Mr Reid that the British nation wou’d give him a * warm welcome.