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ABOUT PEOPLE. 1
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The Goverrior-General and Lady Helen |
IFergiifon entertained t'he following at din
ner at Government House last evening: — i
The Governor, the Governor of Tasmania
and Lady Kllison Macartney. Sir Robert
'Philp, Lady Phflp, Miss Philp and Miss
D. Philp, Sir Samuel Griffith, Sir William
Crcsu'ell and Lady Crcswoll, the Prime
Minister and Mrs. Fiaher, Sir John and
Lady Forrest. Sir William and .Lnrlt- Trvimv
Sir 'Rrtbert and Lady Best, Sir Alexander
and Lady Peacock, Sir Henry and Lady
Wollaston, Mr. Joeepli pook, Professor
Baldwin Spencer and Mrs. Spencer, Gap
tain and Mrs. Tickell, Gaptiin and Mrs.
Olarkaon, 'Mr. and ^Irs. W. Fitzpatrick,
Major T. M. and Mra. M'Inorncy, Major
G. and Mra. Steward, Mr. and Sirs. G. H.
Knibbs, air. and 'Mrs.. Atlec Hunt, Mr.
and Mrs. R. K. Garran, Mr. and Mi's. D.
C. M'Lachlan, Lady Doris Blackwood, -Mr.
C. T. Allen, Captain Foxton, Mr. V. Hood,
Captain Fane, Mr. Luttrell. The follow
ing were invited, but were unable to at
tend: — 'Lady Stanley, Sir John and Lady
Madden, Sir George and Lady Turner,
Mrs. Cook, Colonel A. Freeman, Colonel
and Mrs; D. M'Leish, Mry. Fane, Mr. C,
Gavan IhifTy. ? Before dinner the Gover
nor-Cleneral invested Sir Robert Philp with
the insignia of a K.C.M.G. '
Lady Helen Ferj^ison and Lady Ellison*
^lacartTiey, accompanied by Lady Philp
and Lady Doris Blackwood, and attended
by Captain- Fano, were the guests of Ad- i
miral Uhizaka at afternoon tea on board '
|H.I.J.M,S. Aso yesterday afternoon^
j The meeting to be foeld to-day at 4 p.m.
, in the Old Council Clianiber at the Town
Hall, with Lady Stanley in t'he chair, is i
a meeting of the original members of the
committee of the Victorian division of the
Australian branch. of the British Red Cross
Society, and of those representatives of
the principal interests in the State to
whom letters of invitation to join the com
mittee have beerf sent.
Mr. Robert Harper, ex*M.P., was present
at a piceting of s^i'clioldere of the Kauri
limber -Co. Ltd. held yesterday. . He was
welcomed- tack by t/hc chairman froin his
j orld tour, and sympathetic references
ere 'made to his serious illness in Xcw
^ork.- Reference was made at t'he meeting
to the aibsence of -Mr. Hamilton-Smith, wh6
bad been granted leave of absence to en
able him to go to the war. Hopes were
expressed for his speedy and safe return.
Mr. F.^ Massy Buruside, M.I.AJ3.,
, A.M.I.M.L., has resigned bis position as
general manager of tlie Melbourne General
Motor Bus C-o. Ltd., and asked to be re
Jicved of his duties on 31st July.
One of the few remaining Crimean
veterans has died in the Ovens Benevolent
Asylum, j3eeeH worth, in . the person of Wil
liam !N icheles, -who had been in the asylum
seventeen years. He was 92 years of ::gc,
and came of a long-lived family, bis mother,
living to tbe^age of 100 and his grand
^°ther to 115 years. Nicheles fought in
toe Crimean war and also in tfhe American
war. Another inmate of the asylum,' John
MU'arlane, of -Mooroopna. died in the same
institution at the age ot 93.
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