PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 December 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Andrew McKenzie, of Green Island, has been appointed postmaster at.Greytown. . i . ( , ;

The Rev. A. T. Thompson, of Masterton, leaves to-day for Ohristchurch" to attend the Presbyterian Genera* Assembly. • Miss Davis, of the- staff of the Grey town- school, is laid aside .with rheumatic fever. - Her place is being temporarily filled by Mrs, Balding. Mr William Piatt, the waW diviner, who has recently been flying" engagements in Haw'ke's Bay and Poverty Bay, is at present in Masterton.

Captain Carr and several officers of H.M.S. Psyche came to Masterton on Saturday. They were motored round the district yesterday by Mr H. G. Williams.

Mr Johnston, manager di the Bank' of Australasia at Masterton, leaves for Timaru on Wednesday. His successor (Mr Costello), will arrive from Timaru in the course ,of a week or two; \„ ; , According to ' t the Port's, DunecLm correspondent, the opinion, ;« steadily gaining ground that the two new Judges will be found to be ,Ht?,Jj. ; "Hl Hosking, of Duncdin, and Dr mond, of Wellington.

Mr A. G. Wise,, publisher of the DoTiinion newspaper, and formerly of this town, spent the week-end in Masterton. Mr Wise is leaving at the end of Ihis month for Sydney, where he is starting in business. Services in Knox , Church, Masterton, will bo conducted on Sunday next by the Rev. Mr Thomas Halliday. During his stay in Masterton the Rev. Halliday, who ia a recent arrival from tTie Old Country, will be the guest or Mr B. Kaynor, Lansdowne. The following ministers and elders will represent tho Wairnrapa Presbytery at the Presbyterian General Assembly, which opens at Chri&tchurrh on W'ednesday: Revs. A. T. Thompson (Masterton), M. Bawden-Harris (Pahiatua. 1 ), G. K. Stowell (Featherston), and Messrs E Feist and J. Wingate (Masterton). and H. Bloomfield (Pongaroa). ' ' • Tlie English mail brings information of the death of one of Taranaki's. early settlers, Mrs Thos, Smith, of Hob'den Bridge, York, at the advanced age of 97 years. Born in the year of Waterloo, she Tiad lived in the reign of .six sovereigns— George 111., George IV., '■ William IV., Victoria. Edward VII., and George V. She was "hut a child when George IV. came to the Throne, and up to tho last she clearly remembered'tho coronation of his successor in, 1830.