PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3018, 15 October 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr R. L. Stanford. S.M., is ' seriously ill, states the "Manawatu Standard."

inspector of factories aft fWanganui,' has been appointed as-;, ihsbector at- - h

MrT. E.'Cockcroft has been ap'pointed honorary, veterinary surgeon to the Manawatu A. and P. -Association. At St: Mark's Church, Carterton, yesterday morning, Mr Herbert Hickson was married to Miss Nellie Wilmshurst, of Clareville. The Rev. R. Young, . Vicar, performed the. marriage ceremony. The Rev. J. N.- Buttle has received and has accepted a call to Woolston Church, in the Durham Street Circuit, Christchurch. He •will leave Masterton about March ' next. A cablegram received in Masterton yesterday ir.'n Frc-mantle stated that Mr F. 'W. Temple had arrived there on Tueaday by the P. and O. steamer China, on which vessel he comes as far as Sydney, en route to New Zealand. Information has been received by the Government from Admiral Sir R. Poore that he will arrive at Wellington on the Powerful on November -17 th. His Excellency hopes to be accompanied by six ships of the Aus-' tralian squadron. ' - Mr William John Wilkins, man- . ager of the Hastings branch of the Napier Gas Company, died suddenly •oh Tuesday morning. - The deceased, who was 63 years of age, was a native of London, and first arrived in the Dominion thirty-five years ago. .He was the oldest servant- of the Napier Gas Company, and had been ia charge of the Hastings branch tot the past twenty-one years. The death of Mr Walter Fry, who for many years resided at Featherston, occurred at the Dannevirke Hosnital on Monday last. The deceased, who was 64 years offage, was born in England and came out to JMew Zealand with his parents when about two and a-hatf years old. The | family resided at the Hutt for a few I -years, and then camo to Featherston. About two years ago Mr Fry removed to Dannevirke. A widow, four sons and a daughter are left to mourn their loss. The death i 3 announced of Mr Balmfortb, of Patea, who was one of the early settlers. He was 70 years of age. He arrived in Wellington in 1857, and he resided in the Rangitikei and Christchurch districts for some time, and went to the Manutahi district in 1875, where he took up a farm. In 1882 ho became landlord of the Central Hotel, Patea, and remained in that potttion for eight years. The succeeding year he was again farming in Manutahi and at Otoia. He took a ketm interest in local politics, and was for several years a member of the Patea Weat Road Board, Patea Harbour Board, and Patea Borough Council.