PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13491, 10 June 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Rev. J. D. Jones, M.A., B.D ex-^hairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, is at present visiting New Zealand as v.a official commissioner. At Napier, Mr and Mrs John .Beck- < ett Fielder, on June 6th ctlebrated ; their golden wedding. The death occurred at Otane m MonI day of Mr William' White, o---d 74 a I well-known Hawke's Bay res;.,ant, and ; formerly a member of the Ci-interbury < Provincial Council, states a Press Asso- | ciation telegram. -.-,. i Eight years ago to-day (J"nne 10th | 1906) the Righl Hon. R. J. Seddon passed away. . New Zealand is feeling, m more ways than one, the loss of the great Liberal Leader to-day, as much as when the unexpected blow fell on this Dominion. j VMi r S 601"86, M>Gfre Bor, one of New Zealand s well-known engineers, passed away at Kelburne'\(Wellington), on Sunday. For a time he was in the Government service as Inspector of Machinery, , | A Melbourne cable states that the Moldavia's New Zealand passengers •are: Messrs Trevor/ Sw&wem, Cardno, Farquharson, Scales; Lieutenant Weeks; Captain Hewitt ; Mesdames Trevor, Weeks, Oardno, Hewitt and Bedford; and the Misses Bedford.