PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 February 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr T; S. Ronaldson, j has been a. visitor to Mass-1 . iterton this. week... Ben Morrise, of Rongokokako, -is among list' of newly-created Justices of tho Pekce. Mr Justice Edwards will probably preside at the sitting of the Supreme (Court in Mastertqn this month. ■ Mr H. W. Thompson, of the firm Of Messrs .Thompson-Payne, i& at jpreeent on a. visit to Masterton. ; Captain and Mrs Neale, of Onehave returned home after Spending .a sKort holiday at Carter--son. Mrs F. T. Playle, of Carterton, iwho ha& been on a, trip to the Old 'Country, returned home on Thursday ■evening. The Rev. d. H. Olds, ono time of ♦Masterton*! has received advice that Bie has passed the final section of the IB.A. examination. Mr and Mrs John Hessey, who liave been on an extended visit to HOhristchurch and the West Coast, . "liave returned to Masterton. The newly elected" managers of the {Masterton Technical School last (evening unanimously rq-elected Mr IW. H. Jackson chairman for the enisuing year. . (During the,absence of the Rev. A. Hopper, of Carterton, at the Methodist Conference at Dunedin, Mr F. T. Blartin is i&chargepf ( the Carterton (Methodist Church. " ■ Messrs j. H. Escott and G. R. .-Bykes,. M.P.'s, were visitors to the .[jPahiatua horticultural show this was also present at ihe Hamua 'sports. ■''A "London cable records the death Sir John Tenniel, the famous artist,, at the age of ninety-four years, jflfor fifty years he was an artist on '♦' Punch," retiring in 1901. Mr M. L. Reading, assistant editor of the N.Z. Tfhaes, has. been appointed editor of the Lyttelton Times, i mi succession to Mr S. Saunders, who is retiring from the position. . It is understood that Mr Downie : Stewart; the present Mayor of Dunodin, will be the candidate of the Rejform Party for Dunedin West at the General Election towards the end of the year. iMr Stanley Grundy, barrister, and solicitor, of Auckland, son of' Mr W. T. Grundy, headmaster of the Clyde «tuay school, is at present lying seriously ill in the Auckland Hospital. Mr Grundy is well known in Masterton.

The SRer. S. J. Serpell,**of Masterion, has been elected President of the Wow Zealand Conference of the Methodiat Church. This is the highest office' in the gift of the Church. The Rev. Serpellhas been President of the Wellington district for some time paßt. At the annual meeting of the Masterton Technical School last evening, it was dooided*to forward to Mr Edwin Feist, who ••has retired from ihe Board of Managers, a letter expressing appreciation of the valuable services rendered to technical eduoaiioq, by hrn during his long term of office.

■ The death occurred at Adelaide, South Australia,, on February 17 th, of Mrs J. K. Gillies, in her twentyseventh year. Deceased, who was ■well known in the" Wairarapa, was Ihe eldest daughter of Mr George Canton, of Tauraarunui, and late of Carterton, and eldest granddaughter "of Mr and Mrs Canton, sen., ofWaldegrave street, Carterton. 'An Auckland telegram states that Mr WHliam "PcWie, an ex-Mayor of •Gißborne, died suddenly yesterday. 'He hnrl been playing in the Exhibition Bowlihct Tournament, and was apparently bright and well, when it© was suddenly taken ill. He received medical attention, but died two tours later. The cause of death was apparently heart disease.