PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10185, 10 March 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr C. F. Redman is visiting his parents in Masterton.

The Methodist, Conference has appointed Mr A. Parsons home missionary for the Kuripuni district.

■The'Hon. D. Buddo will have charge of the Lands Department during Sir Joseph' Ward's absence in- England. The Earl of Crewe, who has been indisposed, is steadily recovering," says a cable.

Mr T. Duncan, J.F., a former resident of Masterton, was yesterday a visitor to this township.

Mr and Mrs C. George, of Dunedin, are on a visit to Masterton. They are the guests of the Rev. A. and Mrs Hodge.

Mr C. B. Pharazyn. of Longwood, Fcathe/ston, has returned this week from a visit to the Old Country. The Rev. Edward Walker has resigned the charge of the Presbyterian Church at Halcpmbe in view of the possibility, of his departure for an extended stay in California.

Mr A. E. Fanthorpo, of the South Island, has been appointed to succeed Mr Bennett as bailiff at Masterton. Mi- Bennett leaves for Collingwood immediately on the arrival of his successor.

The Rev. S. J. Serpell, the newly appointed minister.to the' Masterton Methodist Church, entered the ministry of his church in 1884, and previous to his appointment three years ago to Wellington, held appointments in New Plymouth and Tima.ru. In each place he was very popular.

'A oaWe message has been received in Auckland announcing the death of Mrs Chary, mother of the Right. Rev. Dr. Clenry. Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland.. The deceased'lady .was in her eighty-sixth year..

Mr John Martin, of Martin's Bay, Wellington Harbour, whose death was recorded last week, was one of the men who wore compelled by the notorious Te Ivooti to navigate the schooner Rifleman from the Chathams to Gisborne, when the vessel -was seized by the Maoris, who had been deported to the Islands in consequence of their misdeeds in Poverty Bay.