PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LV, Issue 8612, 20 November 1906, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr J, Gr. Woon, a very well-known resident of Wanganui, is seriously indisposed.

Mr John Card, of Featherston, who has been on a lengthy visit to Australia, returned home on Sunday.

Mr W. Kennedy, an old resident of Greytown, died on Friday night. He was buried at the Greytown Cemetery, on Sunday afternoon. Mr G. P. Donnelly has disposed of a portion of the Turamoe Estate to Mr J. 11. Harris, of Hastings, and formerly of Woodville. Mr H. Gilford Moore, the well-known solicitor of Palmerston, who has been ill at Rotorua for some little time past, is now making fair progress towards recovery, and expects to return to Palmerston very shortly. At Dunedin last week a presentation was made to Dr Sidey, of Hawke's Bay, who for twenty-two years past has been clerk and treasurer of the Presbyterian General Assembly. The gift took the form of a purse of gold and a portrait of the doctor done in oils.

The death is announced of Mr John C. Reid, late of Carterton, which occurred at Dannevirke, on Saturday, after a brief illness. Deceased, who was aged 52, leaves a widow and family of eight, (four boys and four girls). The interment will take place at Carterton.

Dr Thos. Fergus, at present assistant house surgeon at the Wellington Hospital, has been appointed by the Hospital Board to succeed Dr Crawford as house surgeon at the Wanganui Hospital, the latter having resigned from the position to go Home for experience.

The death occurred, at Waipukurau, on Sunday, of Mr Fred. Bailey, a well-known Waipukurau cricketer. He played against the Norsewood Club last Wednesday, and, on the way home by train, in the evening, was seized with illness, and on arrival at Waipukurau he had to be taken home on an ambulance.

Mrs Sarah Ann Swan, relict of the late Mr Steven Swan, died at her residence, Anderson's Line, Carterton, on Sunday, at the advanced age of 82. Deceased had been a resident of the Wairarapa for many years, and three sons and three daughters are left to mourn their loss. There are many grandchildren.

Mr C. J. Smith, of Williams and Kettle, Limited's staff, Napier, has accepted a position in the New Zealand office of the Oceanic Steamship Company, which is being opened at Auckland, and leaves for that place on Friday, the 23rd inst. His loss will be greatly felt iv volunteering circles in Napier.

A London correspondent, writing under date October sth, says:—Lord Ranfurly, who returned to his country seat near Dungannon this week, has completely recovered from the illness which confined him to his room for some weeks at Filey, near Scarborough. His lordship celebrated his fiftieth birthday in August last.

Mr J. L. Murray, who has been confined to his house for over a month past, through somewhat severe illness, was able to get about a couple of days ago, but an attack of influenza supervened. To-day Mr Murray had again to keep his bed, but, though in a weak condition, he is reported to show signs

of improvement,

Mr Upton Sinclair, the author of the novel, " The Jungle," which led to investigation of the Chicago meat-packing industry, is suffering from nervous breakdown. It is believed that his condition is due to strain caused by his sudden emergence from obscurity and poverty into affluence and publicity. He is compelled to give up for some time his intention to visit England.

Friends of Miss Smith, daughter of Mr T. H. Smith, of Queen street, who "has been seriously ill for a considerable period, will be pleased to learn that she has progressed sufficiently to leave the Masterton Hospital, of which institution she has been an inmate for many weeks, and is now staying with a friend in Cole-street. Miss Smith is making satisfactory progress towards convalescence, but is still exceedingly weak.

The young man who was badly burned about the throat and chest some months ago, at Longbush, and who has been in the Greytown Hospital ever since, is not expected to survive his injuries. His doctor and nurses have made a desperate fight to save him, but he was not expected to survive over yesterday. A brother, who came up to see him, was laid up with influenza as soon as he arrived at Grey town — News.

In reference to the sudden death of Mr John Carson Reid, who passed away at Dannevirke, on Saturday evening, at the age of fifty-five years, it appears that the cause of death is supposed to have been heart disease. His end is believed to have been hastened by influenza, following on the shock of a broken leg. He was formerly a resident of Wairarapa, and a well-known sport, and a few years ago went to Dannevirke, where he purchased the Railway Boarding-house.

A considerable amount of interest was evinced in the Pahautanui district last Friday in the celebration of the silver wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs E. Boulton, who were amongst the earliest of Pahautanui's settlers. Over one hundred guests attended the dinner given in the local Assembly Hall to mark the event. In proposing the health of Mr and Mrs Boulton, the member for the district (Mr W. H. Field) said that it was such colonists as their host and hostess who had built up the credit of the colony.

Miss Marie Narelle had a splendid sendoff from Sydney on leaving for Maoriland. A contemporary says:—" The origin of the name Narelle, by the way, is both piquant and interesting. Before Miss Narelle took to the stage—indeed, before her wonderful talent was discovered—the aboriginals who lived on her father's station in the backblocks of New South Wales used to delight in the voice she possessed as a girl, and endowed her with the name Narelle, which means singing bird. The name stuck to her, and so she adopted it in after years as a stage pseudonym."