PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 14579, 2 June 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr K. B. Boss has been re-elected a member of the Hawke's Bay l->ud Board. He polled .'546 votes against LAW cast .for his opponent, "Mr A. <•• Steele^. Mr James S. Hordman, son of Mv John llerdman, manager of the Carterton gasworks, has received an o»er oi. the managership of the Wainnwa. workiS. The Masonic friends ->f Dr M""'^' Ainslco, formerly of Kketnhmi", wi.l »c. interested to learn that he is- m Mio > *■ -g» premo Grand Chapter in Momvoiro W% Scotland). Mr Freeman, the newly appointed -agricultural instructor under t.™ \N Islington Education Boar-1 for tho .v.ish Districts, intends, to make hketalmna. iis headquarters. Chaplain-Maior Dutton will .-i.is.iiict the. services at Lansdown.- rrosbytonsm Church on Sunday at H :'-.m. ami _ / p.m. Major Dutton has :.cTne service both in South Africa and in the. present war. Mr A.. P. Murphy, third assistant master of the Masterton District. H.gii School has been recommended by ttio ■Wellington Education Board to the .'okixnitteoV the Terrace S-hooJ, W.;llmjrton, for the position of second a-ssis:;u:i master of that institution. Mr ). 11. Ksi'ott. M.1 , , for I'riyuitua, -who ha? been seriou-dy ill in Wellington since the opening of I'arlia■ment, is now stated to be reeovenug. It is hoped that he will be sufficiently recovered to take his" seat in the House ■before the end of the session. The death has occurred at Marion o-f Mrd SnU-.liffe, relict of the late Captais'. Jos. Sutclifio, aged 7!) years. Deceased settled in Marton in the "nrly seventie?. She. leaves two son>. both ro.s:<]jdionts of Martou. and nu:;:'"-rou-- gvat'.ochildren. Lieut.-Colonel I'owloy. •""hie:" Secretary of the Salvation Army, lias revival orders to proceed to Australia, to take up tho position of Field Secretary. il:s successor will be Lieut.-Colonel M>Innes, at- present Divisional Commander of the Manchester x Knglan-H Division. Archbishop .Redwood will be in Pmtherston on Sunday ;K'xt. and "will voiiduct inaes in the iVatherston Catholic Church at 7 a.m. lie will then proceed to the Feutherston c;n:n\ where he will open the new Catholic institutions" at 9 .o'clock. Vespers will be conducted at the camp at 7 p.m.. and will be followed by an address to the soldiers. The death of Ummer .lohn C'-h:'.:..-s Thoiaaon, TMh Artillery Eeint'orcomente (only son of Mr >T. C. Thomson, MJ , . for Wallace), occurred :-t the Greytown Military Hospital yesterday moriring, after an illness of three weeks , duration. He was n survey oadet, 22 years of age, and enlisted at Jnvereargill in February last. His remains were taken south last night, for fkitercnent at Kiverton. The cause of death was pyaemia. The Empress Eugenic, widow of Napoleon 111., celebrates her ninetieth birthday on May -"th, says an Kngiish exchange. She has been residing ; n England since the Emperor's star set in tho stormy (lays of .I*7o, and she had to fly from the Tuilleries to lind safety across the Channel. Her home is at Farnborough Hall, in Hampshire, where she has been living since ISSI. "During her exile she has frequently visited France, and she never fails to go to Versailles, where, with tear-diimned eyes, she gazes long and sorrowfully at the magnificent coach in which she and Napoleon ITT. drove through the cheering crowds of Paris on their -wedding day, which was .January L'yth, IS-")-!.