PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 203, 6 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A London cable message states that'«a the Marquis of Linlithgow is engaged to J Sir. Frederick Milner's daughter. 'M According to a London cable message, m the Associated Board of tihe Royal CoM lege and Academy of Music have granted;; Ivy Wigmorc, a violinist of Perth, second renewal of her exhibition for a# year. J Dr. J. E. Weld, a-welKknown figure i in Oxford, Canterbury, died on Monday/j He came to New Zealand nearly fifty ■] years ago, settling first at Havelook, Pelorus Sound, and 'finally at Oxford-,! where he resided for nearly forty He was the first resident doctor in thef-a township, and for many years he prax£«| tised his profession in a way that wojsJ him the confidence and respect of theis people. He was most sympathetic to theyj poor. M

Mr. Joseph' H. Williams, for some years! president of the Hawke'a Bay AgricukJ tural and Pastoral Society, and a knoww sheep-farmer, died at HaveiocfcJ last Thursday evening, aged fifty-sixl years. The deceased was ft son of ffim iate Mr. Edward Marsh Williams (ixgl judge of the Native Land Court auM Resident Magistrate for Bay of and northern districts), and settled affil Hawke's Bay in 1875. He was formerftji manager of Mr. J. N. Williams' Frimleji wtate. ■ . *fl A New York cablegram announces ths| death of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, fQU?»;| der and leader of the Christian Sclent tists. The late Mrs. Eddy was born im New Hampshire, and was a Congregft|| tionalist. She was married three timers She discovered Christian Science in 18ft*| and began teaching it in the followsa|| year, organising the Church of (Scientist) in Boston in 1879. In 188|| she was ordained to the ministry, the same year she founded the Mass*| dhusetts Metaphysical College at Boj|| ton. She was the founder of two -J|g three papers devoted to the work,'anq| was the author of several workß Christian Science. '•|j|