PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 47, Issue 14506, 10 October 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Her Excellency Lady Jellieoe will be nrcsent at tlie spring meeting of the Masterton Racing Club on Friday and Saturday. Lady Jellieoe will be the guest while in Masterton of Mr and Mrs B. F. R. Beetham. Mr Alfred A. Smith, of Maurieeville, is appointed a deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages. Mr. and Mrs. J. Harrington, of Mangatainoka, ’who have been on a. visit to 'the Old Country, returned home last week. The Rev. D. B. Ashcroft, of Temui, is. at present in Wellington, undergoing a course of treatment, necessitated by his accident some months ago. The death took place at Featberston of Mrs Davis, wife of Mr Thomas Davis overseer of the Featherston County Council, after a sudden seizure. Mr and Mrs J. V. Gordan and family have returned to Masterton, Mr Gordon having re-purchased the pharmacy formerly conducted by him in this town. A London cable states that the Russian Princess Xenia, aged 18, has been married to Mr "William Leeds, aged 19, a, son of the late American millionaire of that name, who resided at Paris. Mr. A. Stevenson, whfo for many years was chairman of the Kaitawa Co-operative Cheese Company, and who for tlie past 18 months has been living in Poxton, has lately returned, and again settled down in the Pahiatuu district. At Manakau last week, Miss Frances Mav Drake, second daughter of the, bate Mr Drake, and of Mrs Drake, of Waikawa, Manakau, was married to Mr Kenneth Douglas Dalzell, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Dalzell, of Tokomaru. Mr Cyril Chennells, of Masterton, was best man. Mr. Thomas Kennerley, a well-known, settler of WoodvLlle, died in the Pabiatua Hospital on Thursday evening, after a short illness. He had been fanning on tlie Pinfold road for three vears, and for a time acted as the Woodville agent of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company. _He leaves a widow and family of eight young. children. The late. Mr Kennerley was a few years ago engaged in. farming at Konini. The death occurred on Friday last of Mrs H. Diblev, wife of Mr Henry Diblev, of Island Bay. The deceased lady will be remembered by many, musical enthusiasts as a very prominent singer in Wellington in tlie ’nineties, when she took an active part in the recitals of the Wellington Choral Society as Madame Eveleen Carlton, singing as soprano soloist in several important oratorio works, and also at miscellaneous concerts. Mrs Diblev was the youngest daughter of the late Professor Buels, of the Royal Kensington School of Music. Major Kenneth MacCormiek, D. 5.0., late N.Z.M.C., son of Judge C. E. MaeCormick, has returned to Auckland, after an absence of several years. He left New Zealand with the Main'Body Field Ambulance in 1914, and sawservice in Egypt, Gallipoli and France. He was invalided home in 1916, but returned to the front, and remained on service until the close of the war. After the armistice he resumed his medical studies in London, and last year was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, England. A Sydney cable states that a protracted moating of the Labour Caueus resulted in the election oi' Mr. Dooley to succeed the late Mr Storey as Premier. Mr Dooley received 24 votes, and Mr McGirr, tlie only other candidate, 'l6. After Mr Dooley had visited the Governor and been commissioned, the Caucus commenced consideration of whether the whole of the now Premier’s -Cabinet colleagues would be selected,, or only an extra Minister elected. Eventually it was decided to retain the present Ministers and elect a new Minister. Ballots resulted in the selection of Mr Lazzarini. For De-puty-Premier, Mr McGirr was selected, and Mr Burke was chosen as Government Whip. ■Sir Owen Cox, chairman of Birt and Co., Ltd., Sydney; and the Australian director of tlie Federal Steam Navigation Company, as a young man was apprenticed to a sailing ship. When tho vessel reached New Zealand the boy decided that he had had enough of the sea, for the conditions of life of an apprentice wore awful. He ran away. Theonly -position lie could get was that of a junior in the Bank of Australasia at £4O a year. He was moved to Ashburton, but he felt stifled in a bank, and decided to get out. The youth started in Christchurch as a general export merchant. He saw possibilities m'tlio export of frozen mutton. Success did not come at first. He had much opposition to fight. He found it necessary to go to England to : get orders for mutton. On his return tha market slumped, but lie seized bis opportunity, and while his competitors were afraid of buying, he bought and bought at the lowest, prices. And by the three months that elapsed before his shipments reached England, the British market was recovering. The result of i's'.s business acumen was a big profit to the young exporter. Recounting tha story of 'his early life, Sir Owen Cost sai'd that in his youth in. Now Zealand amusements were limited, and naturally a junior bank clerk had little money to spend. But lie never smoked. .It was the few possibilities of promotion in a bank that led him to get out. .