PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 February 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

The death is announced by cable , •of Sir John Gordon a former Premier of the Cape Colony. Maslrton! i **• w^ kuM , mow yesterday. j "Mr M F. Bourke, a Masterton yesterday. | The 'Rev. S. J. Seroeil ; uIJ M \he I E Daniell are representing bh Methodist Church ot the Methodist Coat ereiu (, I The Ven. Archdeacon Fancourt unci inc a holiday with Mi and mis n nLk, of thai, tor* "l""" 1 ; Wellington. Inspector Millev - heftlt]l ° I < the South Wairarapa. is at laid up. He fell irom his motor, bicycle, and was severely shaken. | At the meeting of the Hospital and Oban table Aid Boatd _ yesterday, a motion of ™ ,ld °! cn ™ with the family of the la to Mi N. I>. Bunting was carnod. Mr E. R. Cameron, acemar/ta-nt at the Masterton branch of the Bank of New South Wales, who has been •promoted to the position of manage, of tho Eketahuna branch is to bo, succeeded by M. 11. H. Hammond at, present accountant at- Palmers-en North. I Tho Rev Father Cahill, who has j been in charge of the Dannevirkoj Catbolio centre for several years j past, is to be transferred to El t ham. j His successor will-bo the Rev. father i Walsh, at present stationed at Hutt,

Messrs Rankin and Webb, of tho local Stock Department, will judge the noxious Avecds_ exhibit at the forthcoming Ekcnahuna Horticultural ShoAv. A pri/A 1 has' been offered by tho above gentlemen for the most complete collection of weeds exhibited by school children. Mr J. Craigie, M.P., has offered tho citizens of Timaru a handsome marble statue of Robert Burns. The statue will be shipped from Italy jiext month. The gifts to tho toAAii by Mr Craigie during the past- ten years, says a Timaru Avire, include "a fine avenue of trees, valuable exhibits for art gallery, a,;:d chime* for tho noAV post ofhee clock. The death occurred in Masterton yesterday -cf Miss R.hoda Rubin a vScorrar, 'the sixtocn-ve.v-okl daughter of Mr and Mrs J\ Scorrar. The deceased, Avho was very popular w'th all who knoAv her. had been_ piling for pnmo time. The family Avi'l have tho sympathy of a la-rsre number of friend's m their bereavement. M;r W. Aitchison, of 'Martin-bor-ough, anticipates taking a trip to Canada at afti early date on a visit to Mr Charles Saundcr-ii, a brother of Mrs Aitchison, and a ono time resident of Martinborough. Mr Aitchison Avill probably bo accompanied by other members of tlie and Featherston families. Mr R. Knoakcs, who claims to have been the first Avhite boy born in Grey town, Wairarapa, somo 60 years ago, is at present on a visit to that town 1 . Latterly he has been on a trip to Australia,. Ho was in the N.Z. raihvay service tor a number of years, and is now retired on a pension. Mrs Knapp, of Greytown, is his sistcu-'. His mother Avas the first white Avoman who died in G'roytoAvn.

A wedding, in Avhich considerable interest was manifested in the Ballanco district, Avas celebrated at the Roman. Catholic Church, Woodville, on Tuesday, AA'hcn Mr Thomas O'Dea, the popular manager of the Ballance Dairy Company's butter factory at ■Ballance, and son of Mr James O'Dea, of Kapuni, Taranaki, Avasi united to Miss Frances Parker, only daughter of Mrs P. Scally, of Pinfold Road, Woodville, and formerly of Mangatainoka. Mr H. F. Green, accountant for tihe Masterton: "Borough Council, was yesterday appointed from sixty-seven applicants to the position of seoreta.rv ,to the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid -Board. The final selection was betAveen Mr Green and Mr Ester, of Dunedin. Mr Green hag hadi a lengthy experience in accountancy work, and is a highly respected citizen of Masterton, who should render excellent service in ihis neAV appointment.