PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11882, 19 January 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL MATTERS.

A Brisbane cablegram announces the death.of Lady Bell, widow of the late < Sir Joshua Peter Bell. Captain Foster, who has- been in' charge of tho South Wairarapa division of the Salvation Army, has been trans- ■■>■■ ferred to Norsewood. The friends of Mr A. J. Minifie, of • Masterton, who has been laid aside with': illness, wrll be pleased to learn thatv there was an improvement in his condition to-day. . . , The engagement is announced of Mr Henry Heathcote, eldest son of Mr and : Mrs Mawley, of Ditton, Masterton, to / Kathleen, third daughter of Mr and ■''' Mrs Gascoyne Beard, of Ovingdeait," " : Masterton. ■/• Mr A. R. Harrisy formerly of Eketa- ~V huna, and now of the Edison Labora- A". ' tory in tho United States, who is now in tho Dominion on a holiday trip, will '" make, a brief visit to Masterton and. '•', Eketahuna before .returning to Amer-'. ica. ~'>". ; "'''^ . An Auekland,;.telegram states that the' 7 Right Hon. ! W. J l ,. Massey, who has greatly benefited by, his re.st, left for ; Wellington last.njght. He returns to"'-. Auckland in, a..month's time to turn , the first sod lof the branch railway to Waiuku. Miss Mary Pickford (better known, as Dolly Nicholson, the Biograph Girl),'J has been joined by. her husband, Owen : Moore (also a well known picture.play: er), in the Famous Players Company for tho production of "Caprice," a : drama in which Mrs Fiske was a big success on the stage. A Tauranga wire announces tho death : , of the Rev. Canon Gbodyear, agod : " sixty-three. He was superintending " Maori Missioner in the Bay of Plenty, including Rotorua. He was the last of the Maori missioners sent out by the Church Missionary Society. He arrived at Wairoa (Hawke's Bay) in 1878, was stationed at Maketu in 1883, and Tauranga in 1896. He leaves a widow and two soub and seven daughters. Ho had been ailing for some weeks.