PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 60, 5 April 1909, Page 3

PERSONAL.

; A eaVle from Sydney announces the j aeatk of Mr. T. R. Allt, chairman of the j North Coast .Steamship Company, who recently returned from a visit to New Zealand. A pretty wedding was solemnised at St. John's Presbyterian Church on Wednesday afternoon (says the Ha vera Star), the contracting parties being Mr. W. G. Spewing, of Waiiganui, and Miss Agnes Annie McXivcn, eldest daughter cf Mr. and Mrs. McXiven, of Hawera. Mr. R. MeXab, ex-Minister for lands, goes on a visit to Australia after bhc Easter manoeuvres in Southland, in which, as a volunteer qflicer, lie will assist, and may then make a six months' ■lrip to the Old Country. A meeting -was held in Invercargill a 'few days ago to forward the proposal to erect a memorial to Kdward Gibbon Wakefield. Mr. W. IS. Scandrett, Mayor oi Invercargill, said that it was proposed to obtain two paintings of Mr. Wakefield for the town. lie was the most distinguished colonist, and New Zealand yould not have been a British colony except for his efforts. It was due to Mr. .Wakefield that Governor Ilobson had ioui'rieyed' from New South Wales, and ihad secured recognition as a colony for New Zealand. He had assisted to form th.'' New Zealand Land Company, and de- . gpateh the flret emigrants to \\ elhngjton. Dr. HoJgkinam said it ha< be Slated that the grave of Wakefield had discovered in * neglected state, art SuTattention nf the Government had SL town to that fact. The Invercar- , XSUi was purely loca 1, and the