PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9034, 27 February 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr E. Feist was unanimously elected Chairman of the Masterton Technical School Managers for the ensuing year at a meeting held last evening.

The Rev. C. Dallaston, who is leaving to take charge of the Mornington Baptist Church, was presented with a purse of sovereigns at Napier on Tuesday evening. The Hon W. Hall-Jones returned to Wellington from the South, yesterday. He states that the reports as to his ill-Health are exaggerated. He is quite well and cheerful and hard at work. At St. Andrew's. Presbyterian Church, Carterton, yesterday afternoon, Miss Violet Miller, second daughter of Mr Miller, of Carterton, was married to Mr Daniel Udy, third son of Mr Wm. Udy, of Greytown. The Rev. B. H. Ginger, who has been on a holiday to England extending over twelve months, has returned to Carterton. After staying for a week or two in Carterton Mr Ginger will proceed to Woodville to take charge of the Woodville Methodist Circuit. Another of Masterton's pioneer settlers in the person of Mr Jacob Matthews, passed away at his residence at Kuripuni, yesterday morning, at the ripe age of 87 years. The deceased was born in Wiltshire (England), and arrived in New Zealand in 1856. A year later he took up his residence in Masterton, and followed farming pursuits until increasing years compelled him to set these aside in favour of a quiet life. A widow, two sons and seven grand children are left to mourn their bss. The funeral will take place on Friday afternoon. Mrs Kilmister, who has acted in the capacity of postmistress for the Opaki and Rangitumau districts for nearly twenty years past, will leave to-day, together with her daughter, Violet, for Invercargill, where they will in future reside. Last night they were met by a large number of the settlers of Opaki and Rangitumau, and were the recipients of several presentations. Mr Duncan McLachlan, in presenting Mrs Kilmister with a travelling rug and silver cake dish, and Miss Kilmister with a silver-mounted hair brush and comb, said the settlers regretted very much to hear of Mrs Kilmister's departure, as during her long term of office aa postmistress, she had always been courteous and obliging, and had attended to the settlers' wants at any hour of the day. The settlers heartily wished her and her family every happiness in her new home.