PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14098, 15 April 1920, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr S- Stargess, bootmaker, of. town, has been notified by the HefeL ,hat I” 1 with the Croix de Guerre auiiug Prince of Wales’ visit to Masterton. ■A London cabegram states that Mr ■Gdbrge Johnson, formerly a tiS Councillor of New Zealand, lett £157,843. He was a member a Legislative Council of New Zealand Ojegisjau' e November .from July oOth, l»<-, , lu ..28th, 1892, when he resigned. Advice has been received by_ Mrs L- * .Barry, of Feathcrston, of the death her father, Mr Mrs known resident of Cork (Hcia ) W. S. Card (Wellington) * ‘ s ° ■daughter of the deceased gentleman, St C. O'Shea (Wellington) a son S late Mr O’Shea had, as a niMtei . A course, been looking forward aj&rial mterct to the iH ivith his nephew, Mi J- • J » 3S-or of Featherston, but tin- sad out mentioned has intervened. . . Corporal J. 0. ed from Waiorongonfiu, Lowu Vallej, brought back a trophy as one of Jhc New° Zealanders to take par Xu(AucmS), ’ C X™a® A "Lom“ S -erdton on Thames m 1918, this tiopny being presented by Lady Drogada. - ■ '■Mr Thomas Knight, of Eangdikei Palmerston North, died )o* : ’ Deceased was about the oldest -settler on the line near Nmvbury, t an had farmed the one property contain ouslv for a period of forty-five years, ■ousiy 1 , -vitiep.l a warm mterHaving always evinced a " a , est in matters pertaining to fare of the district, and encouragement he could to a ) snort he became widely Known ' and integrity. Born ■at the Hutt where he received his' 1 education, M Knight subsequently t ook^posscssion --of a run a Tiraumea, on the Las ’ and while residing in that locality he married a daughter of the lat J“ ; < John Varnliam, of Grey town, bev e teen years were spent at Tiraumea, a o which he removed to Palmerston Noith, and since • then had- resided on ''farm on the Rnngitikei lino, lor many %,ars he was connected with the. Man.x watu Pacing Club, for which m the oarly days he acted as yudge. He was also a member of the Manawatu A. and p. Association. Deceased, who had reached the age of 77 years, was < brother-in-law of Mrs L. St. Geoi 0 , . of Masterton.