PERSONAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7710, 12 January 1905, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mr J. H. 3lack'ie, of the Auckland Technical Scool, was in New Plymouth on Wednesday. The Rev. F. A. Bennett will leave for Rotorua on Saturday in order to make arrangements for his removal there.

Mr W. J. l'enn, who has been indisposed for some time, was out on .Wednesday for the first time. Ho spent an hour at the exhibition.

His Worship the Mayor on Wednesday received a telegram l'roiu the Hon. .las. Carroll, Native Minister, .staling that he is unable to visit the exhibition. Sir .1. (J, Ward, accompanied by Lady Ward, Miss Ward, and two secretaries, left for Onehunga last evening. The party go on to Kotorua, where Lady Ward, who has been unwell for the past month, takes a coarse of live baths. Dr.. Mason also went North by the same steamer. At Te Ilehui Church yesterday afternoon the marriage was solemnised of Mr Charles Frederick Messenger, a younger son o[ LieutennntColonel Messengei;. to Miss Ida Maud Heslop, daughter of Mr W. Heslop, Smart Hond. The ceremony was conducted by the Kev. (J. W. Dent, of Wuitara. A very interesting wedding was solemnised on Wednesday, the contracting parties (being Mr F. Foster, of JJunedin, and Miss Rose Carter, daughter of Mrs Ellen Carter. The ceremony was performed by the Kev. ■I. N. JHittle at tlwj residence of the bride's brother, Mr C. Carter, Victoria Street. The bridesmaids were Misses Foster, H. Carter and Maffy Carter, Mr A. Carter acting as best man. The bride was given away by Mr C. Carter. After the wedding breakfast the happy couple left by train, en route for Dunedin. Mr Edwin Henry Lougli, a resident of Tiinaru for more than foi'ty years and for thirty-seven years town Clerk, died on Friday last. Mr Lough was Imi-n in 18a3, and came to Lyttelton by the ship North Fleet in ]Bf><l. He was for a time with Air Rhodes on the Levels Estate, and was engaged in various calling's till 18(it, when he was elected clerk to the Levels Koad Hoard. In 18(58 he was appointed town clerk and treasurer of the liorough of Timaru. Mr Lough leaves three sons and three daughters. It is understood (says the London Telegraph) that Prince Louis of liattenburg will be appointed to an important, command afloat, probably in the Mediterranean, in the course of the year. His Highness was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral on July Ist last, and it is reported that Avheii he hoists his Hag for the first "time his flagship will be one of the new battleships of the King Fdwurd VII. class of 16,:-150 tons, the largest men-of-war ever constructed in lli'i.s country and the most powerful afloat in olTence and| defence, l'rince Louis commanded the battleship Implacable in the Mediterranean when last employed at sea, and for some weekti acted as commodore, specially distinguishing Himself in the manoeuvres oil Argosloli, when he eluded the blockading force, which was in superior strength. For the past two years he has acted as Director of Naval Intelligence, one of the most responsible positions at the Admiralty, and during the late crisis jthu efficiency of his administration '■was amply proved, His Serene High|)iess it; not only a most popular office--, but is regarded with absolute [confidence by the fleet. He is a sailor and a scientist, which is held to be pn essential combination m a [ltajMt commander of u licet.