PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3063, 7 December 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Having reached the age of retirement, Constable Nash, Upper Hutt, is about to retire on a pension. Constable D. Mahoney, of Woodville, is to succeed him. Constable Grey, of Levin, is retiring on account of ill-health.

The Hamilton correspondent of the "New Zealand Herald" writes that Mr John Searle, a resident of that town, celebrated his 101st birthday on Tuesday. He is still hale and hearty, and his physical faculties are almost unimparied. For the past forty years (telegraphs the correspondent) Mr Searle has been a resident of the Waikato. On the institution of the old age pensions, Mr Searle was successful in securing one. He determined to again enter into the bonds of matrimony, and successfully courted an old lady, who was also a re-.ipient of the pension, and this union of resources enabled the old couple to live in passable comfort.

On Friday last, in the Dalefield Church, Miss Muriel Alice Waterson, second daughter of Mr Jno. Waterson, junr, of Dalefield, was married to Mr George Jenson, eldest son of Mr Jenson, Te Rapa, Taranaki. The Rev. W. J. Elliott performed the ceremony. The bride was given away by her father, and was daintily attired in white with bridal veil and orange blossoms. She was attended by four bridesmaids — Misses Gladys and Clara Waterson (sisters), and Ethel Thomas and Sylvia Hall (cousins), Mr J. Jenson, brother of the bridegroom, officiated as best man. The newly married couple [left by the afternoon mail train for Wellington, en route for their residence at Te Rapa. Our Carterton correspondent writes :—"Another of our pioneer settlers has passed away in the person of Mr Thomas Roberts, who died at his residence, Garrison Street, Carterton, on Friday night, at the ripe age of 84 years. The late Mr Roberts, who was a native of Staffordshire, came out to Wellington with his late wife and two children in the Oliver Laing in 1856. He immediately obtained work oh the Mlgahauranga Road formation-, and continued on it until the jttb XvaS finished. He then a farm at Stoke's Valley, which he wcV'ced for thirty years, and after that settled at ClareviHe. He, with six other farmers in the district, took over the original Taratahi Dairy Factory, which Company had ceased operations and founded the present successful Co-operative Dairy ComDany, of which he was a director until eight years ago, when he retired from active work on the farm. The late Mr Roberts was twice married, and by his first wife he leaves three daughters Mrs Corlet, of Belvedere; Mrs Fred Cave, of Carterton; and Mrs A. Osborne, of ClareviHe. He is survived by his wife, three daughers, several grandchildren and great grand children. The funeral took place yewterday at ClareviHe Cemetery, hundrads of settlers attending." According to the New York correspondent of the London "Telegraph." it is reported that the salary Mr Roosevelt will receive as associateeditor of the American ten-cent weekly magazine, the "Outlook," is to be £6,000 annually, dating from the time he assumes his duties, Mr Roosevelt's hunting trip will cover more than the expenses of his visit to Africa, because he has contracted to write descriptions for a magazine afc'the highest rate ever paid to a magazine writer. Neither the President's private secretary nor the editor of the "Outlook," when questioned, would deny or affirm that- Mr Roosevelt would become associateeditor. The President is not a rich man, and as the Constitution does not make provision for pensions to ex-Presidents, most people believed that he would undertake some remunerative appointment as soon as the opportunity afforded. Ex-Presi-dent Cleveland, it will be recalled, undertook insurance work and died poor. Many Americans think the country should provide ex-Presidents with sufficient ; funds to live in dignity, it not luxury, for the rest of their lives. As regards Mr Roosevelt, most people admit that he has worked hard enough to deserve a pension. ,