PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3029, 28 October 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Messrs D. Pulsford and Algie, who were on the staff of the Mutual Trading Company, Carterton, intend taking up positions in Dunedin. Mr C. E. Shaw, manager of the Temuka Gasworks, has been appointed engineer of the Levin Municipal Gasworks. Sir Joseph Ward is expected to be back in Wellington on Sunday morning next. He will attend the Main Trunk railway ceremony next week, and will then visit Auckland. Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. C. Campbell, commanding the Wellington District of the New Zealand Garrison Artillery, has been awarded the Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal. Mr P. Jorgenson. head butcher at the Masterton Abattoir, who has been an inmate of Rotorua Sanatorium for some time past, has returned to Masterton, much improved in health. He will resume hid duties next week. The golden wedding of Mr and Mrs William Bray, of Onehunga, -was celebrated last week. The marriage took place in the parish church at Paihia, Bay of Islands, on October 21st, 1858, Archdeacon Williams officiating. Both Mr and Mrs Bray came from England. Mr James Weal, of Te Rahu, one of the earliest settlers in the Waikato, died last week at the age of 84 years. Deceased came to New Zealand in the ship Queen of the South, in 1863, and subsequently joined the 40th Regiment, taking part in the Waikato war. Afterwards he took up land at Te Rahu, where he resided until jjisdeath. The death occurred at Auckland, on Monday, of the Rev. C. E. Davidson, Congregational Minister, who was stationed at Kawhia. The deceased gentleman made and presented to the Masterton Congregational Church the pretty pulpit now used in the Church. The remains will be interred at Maungaturoto. The cause of death was pneumonia. Mrs H. Keene, of Nireaha, and her son and daughter, met with a serious accident onjthe Mangatainoka Road on Friday evening, when out driving. The horse shied and capsized the vehicle over a steep embankment. The occupants were thrown down the hill, and the trap was badly damaged. Miss Kesne severely injured one of her arms, but Mr 3 Keene and the son escaped with a few bruises. News has been received by cablegram of the death in England of Mrs Cradock Beauchamp, who, with one of her daughters, was visiting relatives and friends m the United Kingdom. The deceased lady, with her late husband (who died in 1906) resided at Anikiwa, near Picton, for upwards of 40 years, and was much esteemed by a large circle of friends, . who will sincerely mourn her loss. She leaves a grown-up family of six sons and four daughters.