PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9767, 30 August 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Lieuteuant Sauuders, of the Greytown Rifles, will be a candidate for the certificate of captain in the Territorial Forctj, at the examinations to be held next mouth. LieutenautOolonel R. W. Tate will be the supervising officer at the Greytowu centre.

The deatn is announced by cable, received from Sydney at S. - 2() r.his mormue, of the Key. Jossph Beale, ex-president of C;lie Methodist Conference, from pneumonia.

Mr Umhain Bell, inventor of the telephone, arrived at Bluff yesterday at'fceruoou by the Moaua, ami spent; the evening in luvercargill. He is accompanied by Mrs Bell aud by Mr aud Mrs F. H. Baldwin. Mr Baldwin has achieved fame in aerial circles in America. The party is making a tour of Australia iiad New Zealand.

Mr A. T. Magi unity lias been unanimously re-elected chairnjau of the Nelson Education Board for the fourth ("inie.

Mr James Sole, of New Plymouth, who came oul; with his brothers by the Oriental, arriving on November 18th, 18-11. celebrated his Recoml birthday on Sunday. The old gentleman is still well aud hearty, aud is able to atteud to his garden.

Mrs Tilsou, wife of Mr Robert Tilsou, a well-known aud highly respected settler at Pouatahi, died last eveuing. The deceased lady had not been in the best of health for the pr.st few days, but it was uot thought the end was so near. There is a large family, tho sous being well-known horsemen.

' The death is anuotiuced of Mr Francis James Rosa, eldest son of the late Captain Aurouio Silva Rosa, aged forty-two years, aud well known at the Birch Hill station, Wairau Valley, Marlborough. His death revives interest in the claim to the estates of the Viscount Yeleuta, Silva Vericas. The deceased's father, Captain Rosa, who was drowned from a coasruig schooner oil' Capo Lambert on October 2:srd, IS7S, was a native of Podroguel Fayal, Azores Isles, and lauded at Whaugarci, Bay of Islands, from the whaler Planter in 1554, being' then seventeen years of age. Captain Rosa led a wandering life, having, it is said, run away from home in dread of army conscription. He descended from the Vericas, of the Yeleuta tates. The claim to the estates is le™ to the senior member of the family resident in New Zealand—Mario Louisa Houoria, a native of gPelorus Valley. Marlborough. who was born in ISIiS, and who has been, it is understood. iv communication with tho British Consuls at Lisbon and the Azores since IS'.VJ.