PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3040, 10 November 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs S. Forman and Master Forman, who had been on a holiday tour to the Old Country, returned to Masterton on Saturday night. Ex-Judge Conolly died on Sunday night at Auckland in his 87th year. He was stricken with paralysis last Thursday. Mr A. Naughton, who has filled the position of secretary to the Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union for some years, is resigning the position. Mr Naughton intends returning to the OJd Country early in the new year. During his residence in Eltham he has (says the "Aigus") identified himself with many movements to advance the interests of the province. Sir Frederick Darley, Chief Justice of New South Wales, who retires at the end of January next, this month completed twenty-two years on the Bench, and this period, added to eighteen years' previous service as a member of the Legislative Council, will make up forty years of strenuous public life. Sir Frederick proposes to leave for England a week or two after his resignation. Dean Slattery died recently at Newvtown, New South Wales, aged seventy-five years. He was one of the oldest and best-known Roman Catholic priests in New South Wales. When completing his studies at Maynooth he had Archbishop Carr and Bishop Higgins, of Ballarat, a 9 class fellows. Dean Slattery was one of the sixty priests who took part in the ceremony of laying the cornerstone of St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, in 1868, and of that number two only now remain, the (Dr Carroll) and Archpriest Sheehy. A wedding of considerable local interest wa3 solemnised at St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, yesterday, when Mr Ernest Williams, of Masterton, sot of Mr E. ton-Williams, of Hawthorne, Ne'-v South Wales, married to Miss Edith Emily second da'isfhter of Mr E 'win Etell, a wall-known and respected Masterton settler. The brMn wis eivon away bv her uncle, Mr Edward Exell.- Miss Jessie Exell, sister of the bride. Mi*a Edmonds (of Christchurch)., and Miss Williams i'of were bridesmaids. Mr Divid Brown was hest man. and Mr A. Rigs: groomsman. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Frerbert Watsoi, at the conclusion of which a reception was held at the bride's home. The honeymoon is to ha spent in the South Island, and lor there Mr and Mrs Williams left by the afternoon mail train.