PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8781, 12 June 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr M. Casefberg and family have left on a holiday tour to the Auckland district. Mr F. G. Massey, son of Mr W. _\ Massey, leader of the Opposition, lias passed his final law examination at tho age of nineteen years. The Minister of Lands (Hon. R. M'Nab) has accepted an invitation to> deliver a political address at Stratford next Friday night. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward arrived at Fremantle by the Mooltan, yesterday morning. It is understood that they will leave the steamer at Adelaide, and travel by rail to Melbourne and Sydney. ■ Lieut.-Colonel" W. Duthie, who recently succeeded Lieut. -Colonel Collins in command of the Wellington Rifle Battalion, is confined to a private hospital, where he has undergone an operation. He is said to be making satisfactory recovery. Mr Burns, Canadian Commissioner to the New Zealand Exhibition, arrived at Auckland, yesterday, from the South (says a Press Association message). Mr Burns intends to remain in Auckland for a week or two before proceeding home. When Sir Joseph and Lady Ward arrived at Fremantle by the Mooltan, yesterday, the Acting-Premier and ah aide-de-camp of the Governor boarded the Mooltan, and extended them a welcome. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward were the guests of the Governor during tlieir short stay at Fremantle. In addition to Sir Joseph and Lady Ward, the following passengers for New Zealand reached Fremantle yesterday by the Mooltan:—Mr C. H. Izard, M.H.R. for Wellington North, and Mrs Izard; Dr Fitchett, SolicitorGeneral ; Mr W. Belcher, seamen's delegate to the Maritime Conference in London; Mr Hislop, private secretary to Sir Joseph Ward; Mr and Mrs Roseuburg, Mrs Clyme and child. The late Mr John Beaufort, whose death occurred, at Pahiatua, on Friday evening, under circumstances already published, was a member of a well-counected English family, being a nephew of the Earl of Beaufort and of Miss. Maria Edgworth, the novelist', The death occurred at Dover, at the" age of 80, of Captain BeiliifiH, wild retired from the South-Eastern and Chatham steamship service in 1898, when he was senior captain. He had been in the service of the company fifty-three years, and had crossed the Channel thirty thousand times. Acting on medical advice, Mr T, A. Peterkin, Mayor of Lower Hutt, who is well-known in Wairarapa, . will not attempt to carry out his Mayoral duties for the present, though his condition is improving. On Monday night the Council granted Mr Peterkin a month's leave of absence. Councillor Russell was appointed DeputyMayor. A Wellington correspondent wires:— Mrs Seddon's handsome new house in Park Terrace is nearing completion, and will be ready for occupation next month. It is understood that when Mrs Seddon moves in, the Hon. Dr Findlay will occupy the Ministerial residence in Molesworth-street. It is recorded by the Otaki Mail that the condition of George Walls, the jockey injured at the late Otaki races, is very satisfactory, and that there is every possibility of him being up aud about within the space of a few days. The frontal bone is fractured, and there is a large gash about the eye, but the eyesight is in no way affected. The death is announced at Lyttelton of Mrs Mary A. Collins, an old New Zealand settler. Mrs Collins came out to Melbourne in the ship Red Jacket, in 1857, and in October, 1858, she was married to Captain J. P. Collins, with whom she came to Lyttelton in 18(i8, in the steamer Alhambra. Captain Collins died some years ago, but Mrs Collins had resided in Lyttelton ever since her arrival. Mrs Collins leaves three sonsCaptain W. P. Collins, of the Rotoinahana, and Messrs G. Collins and J. Collins, both of whom are in business in Lyttelton. Mfss Matilda Monteith appeared as a solicitor at the civil sittings of the Wellington Magistrate's Court, yesterday, and had the unique experience of being the first lady to take a seat at the Bar in the Lower Court in Wellington. Miss Monteith, on asking for an adjournment of a case on behalf of Messrs Levvey and Mackenzie, was congratulated by Dr M'Arthur, S. M., on her first appearance at the Bar. His Worship said he hoped that they would see Miss Monteith frequently. It is understood that Miss Monteith was admitted as a solicitor at Hokitika.