PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9700, 3 November 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr Edward Joues, of Kuripuni, left this morning for a holiday tour of the South Islaud. Mr J. Strang, of Gladstone, left for the Palmersfcon Show to-day, whore ho will judge the fat stock tomorrow. Mr and Mrs J. S. Cooper, of Te Ore Ore, returned home by the mid-day train, and are looking well after their tour ill the North Islaud. Miss Cooper, daughter of Mr Justice Cooper, who has been on a holiday visit to London, returned by the ShawSavill steamer lonic. Miss Gertie Mills, daughter of Sir Jas. Mills, who has spent the past five years in England, returned to New Zealand by the lonic. Sergeant Mason, Maori war veteran, for many years in charge of Blenheim police, retired yesterday. Sergeant Dart, of Mount Cook training depot, is to be in charge for the next month. Mr J. Milne, secretary of the Wellington farmers' Meat Co., left for Woodville yesterday,where he is being married to-day to Miss A. Bliss, of that town. The honeymoon is to be spent in the Sonth Island. Mr and Mrs T. W. McKeuzie, of Lansdowue, left yesterday morning on a holiday trip to Christ-church, and Misses D. and G. Gray and Mr A. Gray. of Fairburn, Masterton, left for Christchurch aud Duuedin. The Professorial Board of Victoria College has selected Mr Robert Kennedy, 8.A., as its caudidate for the Rhodes scholarship. Mr Nelson Dyson, of Wellington, leaves for England next mouth, where he will take up the profession of popular song and music writing. Several of his sougs are already being sung at concerts and music halls. The New South.Wales Alliance has decided to secure the services of Bey. L. M. Isitt and Mr T. E. Taylor, M.P., in connection with the NoLicense campaign at the forthcoming elections.—Received 10.45 a.m. Sir John Logan Campbell, the patriarch of Auckland, entered upon his »3rd year to-day Notwithstanding his great age, he is still hale and. active, with full mental capacity. The only serious effect that age has had upon him has been to slightly impair his eyes, and to somewhat affect his hearing. He still daily attends his office in the city. Captain Waddilove, mate of the tug Duco, now overdue on her voyage to the Chathams (says the Pelorus Guardian), was in 18GG a member of the crew of the barque James McCarthy, from Liverpool to Bueuos Ayres, and another member of the crew was Mr W. G. Boers, now of Havelock. Captain Waddilove was afterwards a pilot in the Straits of Magellan, aud he and Mr Boers reuewed acquaintance about eight years ago, when the captaiu was in cliarge of the Te Kapu, trading from Wellington to Havelock. The funeral of Mr John Jack, of Wellington, took place yesterday morning. The body was incinerated at the crematorium, it being the first to be so disposed of. The Rev. Kennedy Elliott read the form usual in the proceedings, the closing words being:—"We now commit the body to the flames—the symbol of purification and ardour and of the ineffable God, for our God is a consuming fire. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes." The casket containing the body was then automatically drawn iuto the furnace and the doors immediately closed. The ashes of the deceased are to be forwarded to Dundee, aud will be interred in the family vault there.