PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 179, 16 December 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cablegram states that Sir Thomas Borthwiek's estate lias been sworn at'£345,437. Mr. ,(i. Woods, formerly of the Post and Telegraph staff at Patea, has been transferred to Opunake. Dr. W .Kerr-Hislop, of Inglewood, has definitely accepted the position of Medical Inspector of Schools in Chrtetchureh and is expected to begin work 011 February 1. Sir Thomas Dewar, the well-known whisky baronet. has gone to Africa to shoot big game. He is taking an operator and 10,000 feet of biograph film with him. Mr. and lira. W. Davis, of Waverley, celebrated their golden wedding on Friday. This is the third golden wedding m \\ averley during the last six months, -Mr. and Mrs. J. Walker and Mr. and Mrs. A. Catanach having celebrated their iiO years of married life within that time. A quiet wedding took place 011 Thursday in the little chureli at Waikanac. when Lie.it.-C'olonel. Arthur Bauehop, C.M.G., was married to Miss Mary Jean Elder. The ceremony was performed by the Venerable Archdeacon Cosset, of Christchurch, uncle of the bride, asskted by the Rev. Edwin Jones, vicar of the parish. Only relatives of the bride and bridegroom were present. The marriage of Mr. Wynand Boers, a well-known figure in Ilavelock, to Mrs. Sally Taylor, was rather of a romantic nature (says (he Peloms Guardian). The united ages of the couple total 14(i years. Mr. Boers up till about ten years ag'i was a valued servant in the' I'ost and Telegraph Department, and was for many years postmaster at Ilavelock. He joined the service in 180!) and retired in 1892 011 a pension. He is now 77 and his bride, of 00 summers, is an old resident of Nelson and more recently of Collingwood. Mrs. O'Shea Peterson will contest the Dcnison (Tasmania) seat in the House of Representatives. Mrs. Peterson is a farmer's daughter, and a native of rural Tasmania. She has been an active worker in all progressive measures, a member of a number of societies, and a 'regular attendant at Parliament for years past. She published her manifesto a* a candidate for the Federal Senate in 1903, and was congratulated on allsides for her original ideas. She afterwards withdrew, from the contest, as it was evident that the time was not then opportune. The death occurred at the Masterton Hospital on Saturday week of Mr. Peter Coster, ail old resident of the Eketahuna district. The deceased, who had reached the ripe age of 92 years, was a native of Frankfort-on-Main, Germany, and arrived in Xew Zealand about ,i 0 years ago, settling first in Akaroa, where he helped to build the lighthouse. Deceased was a man of immense physique, standing close on 7ft, and being proportionately built. In his younger days he served his full time iii the German Army, and was in the Franco-Prussian war, but being of a roving disposition he migrated to England, where he was drafted into the Royal Life Guards. For the last 40 years deceased had lived in the Wellington province. He was employed as a workman in constructing the : railway from Wellington to Petone, and also that from Picton to Blenheim.