PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 86, 7 May 1909, Page 2

PERSONAL

lo? ;.', , • U r'"' lllstnt,t stock-inspec- «■> who has been in town for a few iwy s, leaves by to-days mail train. Licul.-Col. Uauchop, C.M.U., officer commanding the Wellington District, is in town and will be present at the iinveiling of the Marsland Hill Memorial this afternoon.

A quiet ,vedding was solemnised by the Rev. A\ Into on Wednesday last the parties concerned being J|'r. Robert •.!»"'> t'.""'tll son of Mr. Thomas J' nitoll, ol Inglewood, to Miss Mabel Christian seventh daughter of Mr. 1 nomas Christian, of Eliot Street Xew 1 yinouth. Mr. Ernest i'Tintoff, brother of the bridegroom, fulfilled the duties as best man; Miss Edith liodgcrs, niece f the bride, acted as bridesmaid, accompanied by little l'hylli* Thompson and Dorothy Standing as lloral maids. ■Captain llope-dohnstone, who accompanied the Anglo-Welsh football team »n its travels in Australasia last vear, has purchased a farm in the Kiliiki n district, and intends to settle in Xew Zealand. " I

it is not given to every local preacher to spend forty-nine years of his life 'i this work, but a proud record in tiiis respect i,, held by Father Laws, of the Napier Circuit. At the hist quarterly 11 Hug of the llawke's Hay metropolis special reference was made to hi., retirement from active work on account of growing physical disabilities. Tne following resolution was unanimously passed: "That we deeply regret the retirement of Father T. Laws from the active work of a local preacher through growing physical infirmity, and that this meeting places on record an expression of the affectionate regard and high esteem which Mr. Laws has earacd throughout a long and honorable career as a local preacher for forty-nine years in the Old Country and this' Dominion."

Mr. D. M. Luckie, late Deputy (Joinnii.ssioner of the Government Life Insurance Department, died at Wellington last night. Deceased retired from the service last July. He was 81 rears of age last October.' He was a very old resident of New Zealand, and ' well known as a journalist in Nelson. Wellington and Auckland in the early days. —Press wire.

■Mr. W. G. Foster, managing director of the Wellington Meat Export Company, and Miss Foster were passengers for Loudon hy the Ruapehu yesterday. The marriage of Sir Thomas Ren!, late I'remiir of Victoria, has definilelv been arranged rJohanna," of the Sydney Rulletin. informs her readers), and Hie wedding lour is definitely planned io lake place in Xew Zealand. The bride is to be the widow of a former llawke's Ray sheopfarincr. Captain England, who commanded the Ximroil on the first journey to the Antarctic, is at present confined to his bed iu Christehurch. He intended to leave for Tlrilain by the Hulcshire, but he has had to postpone the voyage.