PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3020, 17 October 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The friends of Mr C. H. Devonport will regret to hear that he is seriously ill in the Masterton Hospital with pneumonia.

Mr W. Hibbard, of Kopuaranga, who has bean laid up with a misterious illness during the past month, has now taken a turn for the better.

The d.?ath occurred at Matarawa on Wednesday night, of Mrs Mary Knowles, wife of Mr John Knowles, an old and highly respected settler of Matarawa.

Mr G. H. Salmon, of the' Pahiatua branch of the Bank of New South Wales, left yesterday for Sydney, telegraphs our Pahiatua correspondent.

It is probable that the Hon W. Hall-Jones will take his departure from New Zealand for London by the ,Corintbic, leaves Wellington 9D December 3rd.

The death yesterday of Mr Thomas Whiting-, an old resident of Petone, who died after a painful illness. He leaves a widow and two children.

.Lieutenant John R. Parry, of the Feilding Mounted Rifles, has resigned his commission. Captain A. P. Trask, Wakatu Mounted Rifles, has resigned, and been placed on the active list, unattached, with rank of captain. The Dannevirke Bowling Championship for 1908 has "been won by Mr,W. J. Mason, late of Masterton, and he has also been successful in winning the Knight Cup in connection with the Dannevirke Golf Club during the season just ended.

Mr J. H Sheath, Chief Postmaster at Napier and who was at one time in charge of the Featherston office will resign from service in February, and will receive a pension of £293 6s. He has been connected with the Telegraph Department since 1865.

Sergeant Edwards, of Sydney, who won the King's Prize Match at the National Rifle Association's meeting at Randwick (New South Wales), is well-known to local riflemen,,as he was on a visit to Masterton 'at the time of the last New Zealand Championship meeting at Trentham. At Pirinoa, on Thursday, Miss Rose Barton, of Pirinoa, was married to Mr Hector Nicol, of the Featherston railway staff. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Lydia Harton, while Mr Will Barton acted as best man. Amongst the many presents received was one from the combined Post Office and Railway staff at Featherston.

Another of the earliest of Nelsonborn sattlers passed away on Sunday evening last (says the '"Colonist") —' Mr Jesse Jennens. Deceased was born in Nelson on May Ist, 1843. He was a resident of Nelson all his life, with the exception -ul three or four years which were spent in Taranaki during the Maori troubles in the "sixties."

His Excellency the Governor will leave Palmerston North on November 2nd for Canterbury, where he will attend an important Masonic celebration at Waimate as well as the Canterbury Show. The King's Birthday dinner this year will be given in Christchurch. Later his Excellency proposes to have a fishing holiday at Tokaanu and Taupp after the big trout.

Id regard to the statement that Sir Thomas Lipton would visit New Zealand in his yacht at an early date, it transpires that although he has had it in his mind for a long time past to pay a visit to Australia and New Zealand, nothing definite has been decided. He has been yacht-racing all the summer, and he may go to the East during the coming winter. His interests are chiefly in India and Ceylon, but he has a branch house in Australia, and he may possibly extend his tour. In any case, however, Sir Thomas will travel by ordinary passenger steamer —not in his yacht. .;