PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 January 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Robert Judd, of Essex Street, who recently underwent a throat operation in the Hobson Street Private Hospital, Wellington, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. The Loyal Grey town Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., has elected the following officers for the ensuing term: —1.P.N.G., Bro. W.» Grigg; N.G., Bro, L. McLean; V.G., Bro. A. Grigg; E.S., Sister ,T. Morris. Mr J. Proffitt, who has been for some years on the staff of the Rongokokako Cheese Factory, has been appointed first assistant at the Ilurleyville cheese factory .(Taranaki).-

Adjutant and Mrs Goffin, of the Salvation Army, Wellington, who have been in charge of the Vivian Street citadel -for three years, have rgeeived orders to go to Auckland. They will leave Wellington on January 11. The death occurred yesterday, reports a Press Association telegram, of Mr Robert Reid, of Darfield, aged 72, one of the best-known breeders and exhibitors of English Leicesters and Corriedales in the Dominion, He was vice-chairman of the New Zealand Sheepbreeders' Association and a past president of the Canterbury A. and P. Association.

The death took place at Carterton yesterday morning of Mr James Walter Snell, of Ponatalii. Deceased caught a chill, which developed into pneumonia, and a few days ago was admitted to a private hospital. He failed to respond to the most careful treatment, and passed away. He was 42 years of age, and leaves a widow and two children—a girl of 8 years and a boy of 5 years. The Interment will take place at Clareville.

Mrs Eleanor Tylden, the Lady of Manor Ingoldisthorpe, which adjoins the Sandringham residence of the King, and who is famous throughout the district as “Lady Bountiful,” expects the King and Queen, in accordance with custom, to visit her on her 105th birthday, which is approaching. Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, the Queens of Spain, Norway, and Rumania, and the late Dowager-Empress of Russia visited her on her 100th birthday. Mrs Tylden still plays century-old airs on her piano and reads the newspapers every day.

The pretty church of St. Mary’s, at Karori. was decorated in pink and blue llowers by friends of the bride for the wedding yesterday afternoon or Joan, elder daughter of Air and Mrs-Arthur Harper, The Hill, Karori, and great-“grand-daughter of the late Bishou Harper, first Primate of New Zealand, to C. B. Beaumont Maturin, only son of Captain* Maturin, R.N., England. The Yen. Archdeacon Watson, Vicar of St. Peter's, performed the ceremony, which was fully choral. Her Excellency Lady Alice Fergusson, an old friend of the bridegroom's family, was present, attended by Captain Boyle.