PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9735, 23 July 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr E. W. Payton and Miss Paytou, of Auckland, are on a visit to Masterton. Mr Payton has been attending the auQual conference of the Acclimatisation Societies, held in Wellington this week.

Mrs D. K. Logan is staying in Napier for a few weeks.

Mr Thomas Neave has been appointed an Assistant Law Officer by the Government.

Mr J. A. J. Maclean is suffering from an attack of influenza, and is ac present confined to his bed.

Mr and Mrs H. O. Robinson and family have returned to Masterton from a visit to the South Island.

Mr J. Duncau, assistant director of fields and experimental farms, was in Masterton yesterday on official business.

Gazetted appointments in the Lands Department are : —Mr O. R. Pollen, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor, Hawke's Bay; Mr T. N. Brodrick, Commissioner and Chief Surveyor, Canterbury; and Mr F. E. Greenfield, Chief Draughtsman, Nelson Lands Office.

Mr P. H. Forster, of the Parliamentary staff, died in the Wellington Hospital yesterday after only three days' illness. Deceased was well known to visitors to the ladies' gallery, of which he had been in charge for several years. Many years ago he served in the Armed Constabulary,and also under Colonel Sommerville in the Boer War.

Mr Peter Gow, of Waipukurau, died at 10 o'clock this morning , . The deceased, who was in his seventy-second year, was an old and highly esteemed settler of Hawke's Bay, aud was a brother-in-law of Mr Scrimgeour, of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton. The late Mr Gow arrived at Auckland by the ship Prince Charley in 18(52, and later went to the Hawke's Bay district, where he resided for nearly fifty years.

Mr and Mrs J. L. Blundell, of Gladstone, are spending a holiday in WellingtOD, and were present at the Racing Club's ball. Mr and Mrs Bluudell expect to enter into occupation of their new house in about a week's time.

Dr. P. S. Foster, assistant housesurgeon at Wellington Hospital, has resigned, having been appointed resident house-surgeon at Christchurch Hospital. On Thursday the Hospital Board passed a motion of appreciation of his services. Dr Brown, who has has just passed his final examinations at Otago University, was appointed to take Dr Foster's place.

At the Auckland University College on Tuesday night a large gathering of students was present to farewell Mr Kenneth Sisam, M. A., the New Zealaud Rhodes Scholar for 1910, who leaves for England on Monday next for Oxford, where he will be in residence at Merton College. Professor Dettmann dwelt on Mr Sisam's brilliant scholastic career, and in particular his many successes while at the Auckland University College, and on behalf of the staff and students wished Mr Sisam every possible success.

"I am the only honorary doctor of medicine in the United States," said Dr Bell, the inventor of the telephone, when asked in Sydney if he ever practised as a doctor. "It was an honorary degree given to me by Heidelberg on account of some contributions I made to the art of surgery. When President Garfield lay dying, I made experiments to enable them to ascertain the position of the bullet by means of electricity. I am doctor of philosophy, law, science, and I am very proud to be an LL. D. of Edinburgh, where I was born, and a D.Sc. of Oxford."

At Hukauui on Wednesday. Mr W. O. Tweutyman, sou of Mr W. Twentyman, of Hukauui, was married to Miss Agues Foss, third daughter of the late Mr D. Foss, formerly of Cartertou. The ceremony was performed by the Key. Mr Walks, of Eketahuua, in the Hukauui Public Hall, in the presence of a largo number of relatives and friends. Misses Edith Foss (sister of the bride) and Tweutymau {sister of the bridegroom) acted as bridesmaids. Mr G. Tweutyman was best uiau, and Mr "Bert" Foss groomsman. A large number of guests were eutertaiued at breakfast at the residence of the bride's mother. The wedding presents, were numerous, serviceable, and costly. The gift of the bridegroom to the briue was a handsome gold bracelet, and to the bridesmaids pearl and amethyst brooches. Mr and Mrs. Tweutymau left by the midday train for Napier on their honeymoon tour.