PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3966, 24 June 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

A lengthy illustrated article, entitled “Lady Ward at Home,” desenb:ng the life of the Wards in New Zealand, apepared in a recent number of “The Gentlewoman.”

At a recent- meeting of the Ormond School Committee, one of the members, Mr J. T. Herbert, presented to the school, on behalf of himself and wife, a prettv framed portrait or the late Captain Scott, with Ins last message inscribed, on the margin. The committee highly appreciated the gift, which was at once hung up in trio school, and accorded a hearty vote of thanks to Mr and Mrs Herbert.

Mr. Thomas Haskell, of Gisborne, arrived Home recently by the Otway, on a visit to his last remaining relative, an aunt at Torquay,-after tlnrtysiv years’ residence in New Zealand. Mrs Thomas Mackenzie (wife of the High Commissioner for New Zealand) had the honor of being privately received by her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, May Ist.

Wiring last evening the Nelson A went of the P.A said: The death occurred to-dav of Mr William Pooie Smith, a verv old settler, at the age of 95. Mr Smith, in his younger days, was an officer in the mercantile marine and settled near Nelson in 1850, residing in the district ever since.

New Zealand was very well represented at Their Majesties’ C’oiirt—the third Court of the- season—held at Buckingham Palace. Those present included the Countess of Cranbroo'k (who will always be best remembered in New Zealand as Lady Dorothy Boyle), the Countess of Hardwicke, Laclv,Blanket (who presented the Hon. Helen Plunket and Miss Freda Butler), Sir Joseph and Lady Ward and Miss Ward, the Misses Helen and Mary Mackenzie (daughters of the High Commissioner), and Miss Mahdl Feldwiek (Invercargill).