PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8830, 8 August 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Rev. A. T. Thompson, who has been granted six weeks' holiday, left on a visit to New Plymouth today.

Mr Robert B. Bell, representing the Ashburton Mail and Guardian, was a visitor to Masterton to-day, en route for the south.

By a cable message {received at 8.35 this morning) the death is announced of the Marquis of Bristol, at the age of 73.

The death is announced, at Auckland, of Mr Wm. Smith, for a great many years Grand Secretary of the Protestant Alliance.

A London paper mentions that the estate in the United Kingdom of the late Mr John Tinline, of New Zealand, has been sworn not to exceed £88,402.

Mr Joseph Blommaart, of Featherston, was married to Mrs Lucy E. Brown, of that district. The newly wedded couple are spending their honeymoon in Masterton.

Prince Edward, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, has developed quite an amount of ability as a singer. It is said he lias a singing voice far above the average and has been selected as a member of the Choir of the Royal Naval College, where lie is attending school.

A send off to Mr and Mrs Ashton, of * Masterton, who are leaving for Carterton in a few days' time, where Mr Ashton is opening in business, is to be given in the Foresters' Hall on Monday next. Mrs Ashton has been a valued member of the Anglican choir during her residence in Masterton.

Amongst the passengers from Wellington, yesterday, for Pictou, by the Pateena, vvere the Very Rev. Father O'Shea, Vicar-General, and a number of Catholic clergy, who are to take part in a solemn requiem mass for the late Very Rev. Father Lewis, at one time in charge of that parish. The priests will afterwards attend a meeting of the Deanery for the Wellington Catholic district, to be held in Blenheim this week.

The news of Sir John Hall's death was received with sincere regret by what it is the custom to call "the New Zealand Colony" in London, which numbers many who in former days had been closely associated with him either politically or otherwise, and by ail of whom he was held in the highest respect and regard. Most of the leading papers had obituary notices of him, referring to the principal incidents in his long and honourable career.