PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Ailiuh Donald, of Featlierston, win judge tho dairy caU.le at tho Manawiatu show.

.. Mr O. Gr. 'Wey, of Masterton, who enlisted for aoi-vieo, has bewn injected i'ns medically unfit. A London cable reports tho death of Mr Neheuniali Cujijiock, editor of Weislliey's Diaries. Mr J. C. Yorke, Inspector of factories, paid an official .visit to Pahiatua last week end.

Profesisor Wtikns, of Otago Univerfciity, is going to tho front as a capfc'ain in tilie Tinmelling Corps. . A London caiblo message staftes that Leur's Waller, the well-known actor, bias died from pneumonia. The death occurred at Ta ill ape, 011 Monday, of tho Rev. David Gordon, B. A., late of Mart ran, aged 80 years.

Mr J. G. Brechin has been appointed secretary of the new cheese factory company at Scarborough (Pahiatua). Licsutenajit-Ooionel Cook, Officer Commanding the hospital ship, Mararna, was a visitor to Masterteon yasteirday. Miss Martin, daughter of Mr A. itantm, of Otaraia, has been sariouisly i'Jll ■wijih appendicitis, but is now convalescent.

• night nominated by tlie Wellington Pras.bytorj'' as aVEcderator of the Now Zcafeul General Assembly.

C.'ijptain and Mrs Wbitley, übo lately 'left Pahiatua for Ro tenia, have sustained a bereavement hi the death of their -little boy, jGeorgio. Tlie Dunedin Presbytery yesterday nomi'jiated the ißiev.. It. 'Ri. M. Sutherof Kajikorai, to the Modoi';itor-ship-of tho Assembly for 191 G.

\ Mossi's Bland Rayner, C. r J'. Barriball, and iD. Kijikpatrick retiro this year from }uhe Council of Lincoln teheepbreeders' As'sociation, but ar« eligible ifoi* reelection. Private J, W. Clwy.stall, formerly of and Oo.'s staff in Masterfcon, was one oi] the of tin* British Transport Marquotto, which was sunk in tho A.egean 2jlrd.

Tho Rw. G. C. Crulcksha.uk, Vicar of WihaJigapei, has been appointed Anglican Chaplain at Tail heronikau cnmip, and (Rev. Canon Williams, Warden of St. John's Gellege, Tamaki, has .been appointed chaplain to tho EigtyJi fß(e.jnforc*.mont,s. Tho Rev. Fiather T. MeKouna, of Pahiatua, met with an ace'dent a few days agio .that might easily have kx-n of a much mor fi serious nature. H« wa.ss iji tlio net of chop-ping wood with a newly-sliarpCTHMl axe, when ho had tho misfortune fo cut the fleshy part of « /to?.. Th© injii' v necessitated surgical treatment, but the rev. gentleman has not been prevented from attending to liis usual 'ecclesiastical duties. By the last English mail word was received of tho death in Londou of Mr Frank D. Passmore. In tho '7o's tho late Mr Passmoro was one of the most prominent figures in New Zealand. Mr Passmore, who was 70 years of age, was engaged in England to como out to New Zearland to take control of thb constructed railways in the- North Island, which at tho timo were being handed over by the contractors. It was ho who introduced tho method of keeping railway accounts, which furnished tho basis of tho more elaborate system of later yoars. Subsequently ho took charge of the Rakaia railway systom. Roturning to England lie resumed the practice of his profession as consulting ongineor.