PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, 20 January 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL

A London cable stales that the date of Princess Mary’s marriage is still undecided. It will take place in Westminster Abbey. Two thousand guests have been invited. Mr A. G. Edmonds, a well-known resident of Eketahuna, died on Tuesday afternoon.

Mr J. Robertson, ex-M.P. for Otaki is at present in the South Sea Islands, where he is giving picture entertainments.

Sir Alexander McCormack and Lady MacCormapk, of Sydney, are at present making a tour of New Zealand. The death took place at Morrinsville on Monday of Mrs Tupu-Tainga-kawa, a, leading chieftainess of the Ngatihaua tribe.

Mr A. S. Wallis, Broadway, Carterton, will shortly leave for Auckland, where he intends to reside. According to the Manawatu “Times,” Mr V. A. Christensen will not contest the Palmerston North seat in the Labour interest. • The death has occurred in Auburn, New South Wales, of Mr Jeffrey Whalan, who had reached the age O’ 110 years. He was horn in the County of Waterford, Ireland, and was by trade a millwright.

Mr S. Shugg, who has been appointed judge for the baud contest to be held in Wellington next month, is conductor of the Malvern Tramway Band (Melbourne), which won the recent Ballarat contest. He judged at the Ballarat contest in 1919.

Messrs J. Morrison and J. H. Vincent have been appointed representatives of the Orua County Council on the Manawatu Electric Power Board. Mr J. G. Harkness will fill a similar position for the Feilding Borough Council.

Mr Alexander Melville, who came to New Zealand in the. steamer Lord Ashley in 1859, has died at Mt. Eden Auckland, at the age of 95. One of his daughters is Miss E. Melville, a member of the Auckland City Council

The death has occurred at the Buchanan Home of Mr Henry M. Matthew O’Loughlin, at the age of 78 years/ The deceased was a wellknown drover in the Masterton district prior to entering the Homd some three years ago. A London correspondent, commenting on the appointment of the Rev. C. F. Pierce, M.A., to the headmastership of the Wanganui Collegiate School, states that Mr Pierce has for the last six years been headmaster of the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Cranbrook, Kent, and he received his new appointment from a special com mission in England. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was ordained at Canterbury Cathedral in 1906. In 1908 he was appointed chaplain and assistant master at Giggleswick School, under Mr Vaughan, the new headmaster of Rugby. Before that he was a for a short time assistant master at Haileybury. Mr Pierce will not be going to New Zealand before next July. He is unmarried.

Three members of the delegation which is to inquire into the position of Indians in Fiji arrived at Auckland by the Makura from Sydney on Monday, says the 'Herald.” The chairman, Mr B. V. Raju, who is a member of the Indian Legislature Assembly for Madras, is making his first adventure beyond the boundaries of India, and after completing his task in Fiji proposes to visit England, travelling via America. Mr Raju’s associate, Mr G. 8. Sharma, a member of the Council of the United Province of Agra and Oude, has travelled extensively, and lived for several years in England. According to his present plans he will return to India from Fiji. The other member of the delegation, Lieutenant Hissamud Din Khan, D. 5.0., of the 23rd Indian Cavalry, wears many decorations, which bear witness to his military career. A member of one of the Indian royal houses, he is a son of Colonel , Nawab Sir Asiam Khan, who was an A.D.C. to the late King Edward. Lieutenant Khan has seen service in Several Indian campaigns, as well as in Mesopotamia. He was four times mentioned in dispatches in the European war, and holds the British Empire Order, and the Distinguished Service Order. He will devote his time in Fiji to inquiring into the possibility of settling discharged officers and soldiers of the Indian Army on the land in Fiji.