Personal Items.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5402, 15 April 1909, Page 2

Personal Items.

Hie constituents have presented Mr Farrell, member for North Longford, with 000 sovereign* in honour of hie imprisonment D* Josseliu, lately aooountaut in the Bank of New Zealand, Sydney, wee sontenoed to nine months’ hard labour for embezzlement.

A cable message from New York states that Signor Caruso, the great tenor, ie suffering from atony of the vocal chorda. Specialists advise two years’ rest. Mr William Edward Akroyd, of Mangapapa, has beau appointed to fill the vaoanoy on the Hawke’s Bay Laud Board oaused by the resignation of Mr Owen Edwin Bart ram.

A wedding that created some local interest took plaoe in St, Peter’s Church yesterday, when Miss Rethbon* was married to Mr Werburton Tbs Rev. Canon Eoolea performed the ceremony. A eon of Mr R. Soott, of Waipukurau, who left the Dominion to gain further experience as an engineer, ie now employed at the works of Viokere, Maxim end Go., England. Another of Mr Scott’s eons is ou the staff of a Uni varsity in Ohili.

Mrs Russell Sage is said to pay the heaviest tax of any person in the oity of New York. The tux-books show that twouty New York women are assessed for upwards of £3,400,000, and more than a soore of others are uquired to pay from £20,000 to £50,000. The engagement is announced of Miss Gwendolen Chase Morris, ssoond daughter of Mr Chase Morris, of Wellington (late of Feilding), and grand* daughter of Colonel Chase Morris, of Dunedin, to Mr 0. H. Vassal, of Oxford, Englaud. Mr Vassal was a member of the last British football team that toured Now Zealand.

The daath is reported from Feilding of Mrs M‘Keuzie, relict of the late Mr T. W. M'Kenzio, aged 82. The deuoasod lady was boru iu Argyle, Scotland, and came to the colonies in 1840. She was married in 1842, and lived at Horowhenua from 1853 to 1897, sinoe when she has been living in Feilding. She leaves seven sons and seven daughters to mourn their loss.

The Uov. Bates, recently appointed Government meteorologist, was assistant weather reporter, F.R.G.S, PR, Met S., and Cor. member of tho Imperial Meteorological Sooiety of Austria. He was born at Spalding, England, iu 1808, and ordained in 1891, Minister of the Ohuroh of England. He served in New South Wales and New Zealand until appointed chaplain to the Niuth New Zealand Contingent iu South Africa After returning from the war he retired from his olerioal profession through illness, and entered tho Civil Service in 1903 in the Meteorological Ollioe. On the amalgamatibn of that ollioe and the Weather Bureau in December, 1906, he became assistant weather reporter to Ouptaiu Edwin, R.N, who had founded the Bureau in 1874.