PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10230, 12 June 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr Charles Ibbetson will enter the Masterton Hospital to-day to undergo an operation for appendicitis, wnis numerous friends will express the hope that the operation will be entirely satisfactory.

Mr E. C. Jack, Secretary of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, is acting as Secretary to the recently-formed New Zealand Producers' Association.-

. Captain C. W. Ferris, one of the best-known of Gisborne's citizens, and a veteran of the Maori wars, left on Saturday for Sydney, where he will take up his residence for the benefit of his health.

Mr A. H. Herbert intends delivering a political address in Eketahuna m about a fortnight's time. The-Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister of Railways, proceeds to New Plymouth to-day.

'Mr James O'Sullivan. the wollr known "All Black" Taranaki footballer, was married at Patea on Thursday, to Miss Kate Sheahan. Mr R. J. Eames, at one time on the staff of this paper, has become subeditor of the New Zealand Farmer.

Mr William Reid, of Wanganui, yesterday celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday."

The Hons. Jas. Carroll and A. T. Ngata are to be present at the "Liberal" social in Carterton to-night. Mr E. J. Finch, inspector of the Bank of New South Wales, in New Zealand, will retire from office, at the end of this month. Mr Finch entered the service of the bank in 1860. At that date only, twenty-seven branches of the bank were in existence, whereas to-day there are 326.

Saturday was the fifth anniversary of the death of the Right. Hon. R. J. Seddon upon the steamer Oswestry Grange. Dr. Holland has been appointed honorary surgeon to the Pahiatua Hospital. Mr Timothy O'Gorman, a pioneer settler of Pongaroa, has leased his •farm, and has purchased a small property in Pahiatua, where he intends ,/fco reside.

1 Captain A. H. HerTwrt, of Eketahuna, has been promoted to be Major of the Ninth Battalion WellingtonEast Coast Mounted Rifles.

A London cable, received last night, states that Lord Islington has been promoted to be a Knight of Justice in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

His Excellency the Governor returned to Wellington on Saturday. The Hon. G. Fowlds will represent the Government at the Coronation festivities in Auckland.

The Lyttelton Times understands that Mr T. Drummond will probably contest the Riccarton seat at the general elections, in the Radical interests.

Mr A. Fisher, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, has declined Honorary Directorships of Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and Birmingham.

Ensign Neilson, a former officer of the corps, conducted the services in the Salvation Army barracks at Masterton yesterday. '