PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 35, 11 October 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Duchess of Fife’s wedding gown Twill be a very simple soft white satin charmeuse, and her going-away gown -will be pale grey charmeuse. Princess Jlaud. the chief bridesmaid, will wear pale pink charmeuse; Princess Victoria, champagne-colored charmeuse; Queen Alexandra, black satin, covered en%K>ly with white net, closely embroid'.,vncd with crystal and jet paillettes, and further adorned with diamante leaves. Xhhfs-Sydney Sun Special Cable.

His Excellency the Governor will pay his first visit to Stratford on Tuesday next, arriving by special train from New Plymouth at 2.30 p.m. and leaving again at 3.45. An address of welcome will be presented to the Governor by the Mayor at the Post Office, and afterwards His Excellency will be taken for a motor run round the surrounding district.

The Rev. E. Bandy, of Stratford, has accepted a call to the Union Street Church, New Plymouth.

The death of Mr Baxter, cx-Lcndon manager of the Bank of New Zealand, is reported by cablegram.

Mr P. Skoglund, Town Clerk, in a letetr to the Mayor, staets that lie is fgetting along well, • and that he expects to lie able to resume duty in about a month.

Mr A. S. Legh, who has for 12 years acted as travelling representative in New South Wales for the Dunlop Rubber Co., has been appointed to manage that company’s New Zealand business at Christchurch. A complimentary dinner was tendered to him by the company’s executive staff before leaving.

A very old resident of Greymouth, Mr William Holder, merchant, died yesterday. He arrived in Otago in 1862, following the gold fields there, and then cam© to the coast. He founded the firm now known as Holder and Sons. He was the best-known business man on "the coast and took a prominent part in Methodist Church affairs.

Lady Patey, wife of Admiral Sir George Patey, is to leave England on February 13, by the Orsova, to join her husband oh the Australian station. Although the Admiral does not say so, writes a special correspondent on H.M.A.S. Australia to the Sydney Daily Telegraph, there is little doubt that she would have been in Sydney to welcome the, fleet had the Admiralty House difficulty not arisen. As. it.'is,‘ 'Sir. George Patey is. at the mercy of house agents, just like any ordinary citizen. Admiral and Lady Patey have two children, a pigeon pair. Lorna, so named because the A ndmirt sasilaw bzaahuoalowfc —? Admiral is a west countryman with a veneration for the Blackmoors’ famous novel, is eight years old, and Hodney, named after H.M.S. Rodney, a, command of his Excellency’s father, is five. ; . - . , -