PERSONAL MATTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11935, 24 March 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mrs l>. K. Logan, of Lansdowue, is on. p. visit to the South Island. « Mr and Mrs O. J. Percy, of To Oro ~ Ore, Masterton, will leave on Friday on a trip to Australia. Mr AWll. Jackson, of Masterton, was taken ill suddenly yesterday afternoon, mid is confined, to his bed. Mr J. 0. Bee, of Masterton, is at present indisposed. There was a improvement, in his health to-day. Mr and Mrs G. C. Williams, of Masterton, and Mr and Mrs W. E. JESidwill, of Fcathcrston, are visiting Tiniaru. The Kcv. A. T. B. Page, of Greytown, is now convalescent, and is able to j, r et about once more. Mr It. M. Currie, deputy-stipendiary steward, will aflic-iate at the Easter meeting of the Wairarapa Racing Club. The funeral of the late Mrs Kibble[white took place yesterday afternoon, nt the Masterton cemetery, the cortege jbci'ng'a large ami representative one. Mr and Mrs Kobert Lucas, of Wan'ganui, arc at present on a visit to relatives in Featherston. Mr Lucas is i .yon of Mr ami Mrs S. W. Lucas, of Featherston.

Mr , Oiifcut, who will shortly be severing his connection with Messrs Yeitch and Allen, has tendered his resignation as a member of the Greytown Borough

iff" The'death occurred in Australia reeently of Mr W. Cvighton. who arrived ■'' iv Xl'awke's Bay over forty years ago ,;, ;!ud' was sheep-farming at Kisslngton

for many years. Sir Joseph Ward, the leader of the Liberal party, left Wellington for Atiekland by the midday train to-day. He will deliver a political address in the Atiekland Town Hall to-morrow evening. On Friday evening last the members and adherents of the .Presbyterian Church Mnrtinborough, tendered a. fare•wcll social to Mr C. J. Tocker, who is returning to the Divinity Hallat Dune«Un to continue his studies for the m nistry. and presented him with a purse of sovereigns. The death of Mr Michael John Lau-<lers,-a very old settler in Ne-w Zealand, occurred at his residence in Wellington on Sunday morning. The deceased, who was Si years of age, joined the 57th Kegiment ("The Diehards , ') nt Limerick in 1804, when he was only cighteeh, and later in that year he went out to the Crimea. He was one of the survivors of the Battle of Inkerman. A meeting was held in Masterton evening, and was attended by repfrom the Competitions Soi «>iety, Horticultural Society, Theatrical Society,-St. Matthew's Choir, Savage Club, and Orchestral Society, at which a strong'committee was formed for the purpose' of giving a complimentary concert to Mr M. B. Yarnham, who is about to'leave this district, and take up his residence at Akatarawa. The date, of the concert has been lixed for 2Sth April, and everything points to the function being a. record one, and a litting farewell to a resident who has always given his support to every movement for the advancement of the town.