PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXV, Issue 11785, 23 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr A. J. Stone-Wigg, of Masterton, is visiting Wellington. Mr John Payne, M.P., is visiting Masterton.

Miss Lilla Fairehild, of Wellington, who has been visiting Masterton, left to-day, to bo the guest of the Bey. Eaymond Kichards, of Pahiatua. The death of Captain B.C. Paterson, a retired shipmaster, is reported from Dunedin. Deceased was S2 years of age. Mr Justice Chapman, who is presiding over the present sessions of the Masterton Supreme Court, arrived in Masterton Igtt evening. HSftordship the Bishop of Wellington (Dr. tfprott), who conducted the consecration service at St. Matthew's Church on Sunday last, returned to Wellington to-day. Mr W. W. Gabites, accountant of the local branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., has been promoted to a position at the Invercargil branch of the Company. Mr Gabites is at present on a holiday trip to Auckland. Mr H. A. Parker, who defeated E. O. Anderson in the Sydney lawn tenuis championships, is a son of Mr Robert Parker, of Wellington. For several years he was the tennis champion of New Zealand.

The services in connection with the opening of St. Matthew's Church have brought a number of visitors to Masterton. Amongst them arc Mrs InnisJones, wife of the Vicar of Feilding, who is staying with her sister, Mrs H. B. Dyer, and Miss Fowler, who is the guest "of Mrs Meredith, Llandaff. Three deaths occurred in Gore on Sunday of well-known residents. The Rev. X.M. Davidson, aged 84, was ordaiiaeat Dunedin in 1866, and after a perioif at North Taieri and Mataura Valley Was inducted to the Mataura charge in 1576, retaining that position for Eixteen years. During the last eleven years he had lived in retirement Vt Gore. He was the first Moderator of the Mataura Presbytery, and also filled the position of Moderator of Otago Synod about twenty-five years ago. He wae twice married, and a widow eurviv€B him. Mr William Johnston, aged 80 years, a well-known resident during the past thirty-two years, also died. He arrived in the colony in 1869. After working a few years at the engineering trade at Port Chalmers he took ap land near Gore. For several years he has lived in retirement. He leaves a widow, four sons and five daughters. Mrs Paterson, wife of Mr J. A. Paterson, baker, also passed away on Sunday, aged 43. —Press Association. Sir lan Hamilton, who is mentioned as likely to be appointed Commander-in-Chief in India, has been Inspectorgeneral of the Oversea Forces for the last few years. The creation of this position, it will be remembered, occasioned a great deal of discussion, particularly when Lord Kitchener declined it, saysjjjie Lyttelton Times. Sir lan HamUJtcJfe sixty years of age. He firstsaw active service in tne Afghan War of -.879 and two years later he was serving against the Boers in South Africa. He was wounded at Majuba Hill. From South Africa he went to Madras, and from India to the Soudan. Beturning to India he took part in the Burmese War, and during the next ten years he served in virtually all the small frontier wars. His active service included, ox course, the South African War, and for nearly three years, with a brief interval of administrative work in England, he was in the field. He is known as teing at once the luckiest and the unluckiest of soldiers, for while his luck has always taken him into die fighting and out of it alive, his lack of luck has almost invariably brought him a wound in battle. His left arm is virtually useless, having been shattered long ago on the Indian frontier, and though this is the severest wound he suffered, he bears the icais of several others. Incidentally, he is described as the most popular man in the service.