PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3076, 22 December 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr C. A. Pownall was able to be in town yesterday for a few hours. Mra Deadman, daughter of Mr Charles Harris, of Martinborougli. died on Sunday morning. The deceased was 34 years of age. At the "break-up" of Miss Sommerville's Preparatory School, in Wellington, Miss L. Armstrcn g r daughter of Mr W. Armstrong, of Greytown, was presented with a silver-backed brush, from hsr pupils, on the occasion of resigning her position in the school, after two years* service.

Mrs Scale, at one time a teachsr in the Greytown School, met with rather a severe accident at Lincoln, Canterbury, lately. She was thrown out of a gig when making a visit in connection with her duties under the Education Department, and received severe injuries to her hsad and other parts of the body, it being necessary for a doctor to put several stitches in one of the wounds. She has been ordered complete rast for a few weeks.

The death is announced from Dunedin of Mr F. A. Cargill, eighth son of Captain Cargill, firsi Superintendent of Otago. The deceased, who was in his eighty-third year, was well-known in the early days in banking circies in Melbourne and Sydney, where be established branches of the Oriental Bank. He was afterwards sscretary at the bank's head office in London, and subsequently inspector, fie came to Dunedin in 1869, and has resided there ever since.

At Cross Creek, on Saturday evening, Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, exmember for Wairarapa, was entertained by the residents and presented with a purse of sovereigns, as a token of confidence in him. Mr J. Meachan presided, and Mr J.- Churchouse made the presentation, which was accompanied by an address. Mr Hornsby suitably replied. Mr Hornsby was greeted with great applause on rising, and this was renewed at the close of his address. After the formal proceedings the meeting indulged in a very enjoyable smoke concert. Miss Isabel Morice, who, during a quarter of a century's residence in the Gisborne district, has interested herself in various numane and Christian movements, died at Gisborue last weak. The late Miss Morice was born at Benares, India, in 1840, and was the eldest daughter of the late Dr James Morice, a medical officer in attendance on the East India Company's troops. At an early age Miss Moriee accompanied Ler parents to Scotland, where her father died. On the diath of the Rev. Geo. Morice, at Balclutha, Miss Morice and the remaining members of the family in Scotland decided to come to New Zealand, where they arrived in December, 1885.