PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 9 December 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lieut. F. J. 'Bobbins has resigned from tiro Masterton ft 1 iivo Brig axle, lie having left the district. A London cable records the death at the Isle of Wight, from pneumonia, of Lady Tennyson. Mr and Mrs E. C. Eton returned ■to Mastertioxi .yesbt-rclay after a health-recruiting trip to "W anganin:. IA. London cable states that Braid, til© well-known golfer, was accidentally killed while boarding a- train at Waterloo station.

The case of Private Leonard D. MoCracken, -of -Masterton, who was wounded in the big "push," -is reported to be severe.

Mr R. Olney, late of the Masterton iborough gas-fitting staff, lias received .an (appointment at Napier, for which place he left yesterday.

The friends of Mr Thomas Sewell, a Maori war veteran, will be sorry to learn that he is at present lying seriously ill at the Masterton hospital. A London cable states that the Right Hon. W. F. Massey .and Mrs MaSsey have been received by Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

[Bombardier Donald, son of Mr D. Donald, of Masterton, and Private Keen, iof Carterton, returned to New Zealand' with-the Ruahine, which arrived at Auckland on Thursday. Sine© tho last annual meeting of tho Masterton Lawn Tennis Club, the following members have enlisted for service abroad:—Dr. N. H. Prior, Messrs 0. O. A-shton, C. O. Beard, and "E. J. Brown. At a meeting of the Masterton Soldiers' (Entertainment Committee, last night a special vote of thanks was accorded Mr W. Gillespie for carrying on the secretarial duties 1 during the enforced absence of Mr H. M. ißoddington. At Devonshire House, Masterton, last evening, Miss Jessie Finnstone was presented by the boarders with a Do.ultMi cruet set and silver sugar and cream set, on tho occasion of her approaching marriage. Firmstone suitably acknowledged the gift. Mr 0. Smith, railway stationmaster at Masterton, who has -been transferred to 'Hamilton, left yesterday for the north. Prior io bis departure he was presented by the staff of the local railway station with a set of silver-mounted military hair .'brushes, Mr Brio Magnusson, son of ,sii\ FY G; of Ilawel-aj arid formerly cl Masterton, who. wa.si tliird writer oxi -the iPyranius, has -been -dis-, .charged from the Navy ■ medically' un- . fit." His health broke down while! serving in the tropics.' Mr Magnus-| son saw service on a number of battleships, i including the New Zealand while she was in colonial waters. He liflis received ■a 'firsts, class discharge. ' In the course of his speech at the-' hailf-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand yesterday, Mr Harold Beauchamp referred to th©, late Mr Martin Kennedy as follows:—"Mr Kennedy was so closely identified with the Bank for the last 22 years, and attended our meetings «o regularly, that his absence makes a sensible gap |! n onr assembly. Shareholders have lost a very efficient and valuable repx*esentative, who was at ail times keen j arid ,constant in the safeguarding of j their interests. A man of , great natural ability, and endowed with qualities of insight, .foresight, and shrewdness in an unusual degree, Mr Kennedy brought the force of all his capacity and wide business experience to bear upon the many and sometimes complex problems which, from time to time, came up for discussion at the Board's deliberations. His counsels were inspired by J;i3 native and jprudfence, .ana the soundness of his judgment was almost always .proved by the course of events. JTlie fact that he was eanraistentiy re-elected unopposed shows that he enjoyed the unbroken confidence of his fellow shareholders."