PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXV, Issue 11755, 19 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mrs J. Major, of Pahiatua, will leave on a visit to Melbourne on Thursday.

Mrs Thomas, wife of Mr S. Thomas, of Waiowaka, Pongaroa, died on Sunday.

Mr J. O'Reilly, of Cartcrton, who lias been on a trip to England, will return on September lGth. Misses Octavia and Nellie Tclford, who have latterly been residing in Napier, have returned to Cartc.rton. Mr .1. do V. Howard, accountant at the Palliatua branch of the Bank of New Zealand, has left on a visit to Australia.

Mr, A. C. Pearcc has been elected councillor for the Kahautara riding of

the Featherston County Council, vice A. Hamiay, resigned. •(■■Mr David Crowe, Mayor of Pahia"tjan, who has been seriously ill during the past two or three weeks, is now making favourable progress towards recovery. Mr Alex Murray, formerly of Waterfalls, Alfredton, and an ex-member of the Masterton County Conucil, is now fanning at Levin. He is at present on a, visit to friends in the district. At the congratulatory meeting to Archbishop O'Shea in the Wellington Town Hall iast night, Archbishop "Redwood announced that the Very Rev. Dean McKeinia, of Mastertou, had been appointed Vicar-General in succession to Archbishop O'Shea. —Press Association. There was a crowded gathering at the Wellington Town Hall last night, when a number of congratulatory address were presented to Archbishop O'Shea and also a cheque for £400 subscribed by the people in the Wellington diocese, says a Press Association wire. The. addresses were from the clergy, the executive of Auckland Hibernian Society and the branches, the executive of the Wellington Hibernimi Society, and its branches. Speeches were delivered by Archbishop Redwood, Bishop Clcary. and Dean Power.