PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3080, 29 December 1908, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Messrs H. H. Wolters and G: W. Deller, of Carterton, i.utend leaving for a trip to the Old Country m March next.

Mr T. Maunsell has been elected f people's churchwarden by the Angli- 1 cans at Carterton, -vice Mr H. S. Moss, who has gone for a trip to, England.

Mr J. Halligan, who is now on the Stock Department stalf at Johnsonville, and who was formerly stationed at Masterton, is at present on a visit to this town.

The vacancy on the Dannevirke High School Board of Governors, caused by the resignation of Mr M. Tansey, hsu bean filled by the election, of Mr W. G. Hunter.

Mr J. C. Alpass, who has been' on a visit to the Old Country, returned to Masterton last evening. Mr Alpass was a passenger by the s.s. Tainui, which arrived in Wellington on Saturday last.

The death is announced of Mr WW Smith, an old resident of Napier. The deceased, who was 81 years of age, was born at Montrose, of Scotland, and came to Napier at the end of 1855. Taking up land near Puketapu, he underwent all the privations and difficulties of the early pioneers. When Hawke's Bay was separated from the province of Wellington, he was appointed deputy provincial auditor, which office he held until the abolition of provincial government. For many years after retiring from active business, he resided at Korokipo.but a few years ago he came to Napier. He was a volunteer in the old days, and was present at the Omaranui fight, for which he received the New Zealand medal.

A familiar figure in nautical circles in the person of Captain John Cameron White, died at Wellington yesterday morning, after an illness of only a few days. He was a paticularly genial man, and a sailor of the old hard school, having at one time been in the Geenland whaling trade. Then' he became a master of tug boats in various Scottish ports, and, incidentally, it may be stated that he assisted in the rescue of over 70 lives in connection with an accident at the Tay bridge, before the great disaster when the Christmas railway train went over into the river one stormy night. Captain White, who was a native of Abdie, Fifeshire, came to .New Zealand 26 years ago, and he has spent almost all the time in Wellington. He was associated with the tug-boat service in Wellington harbour, and was the owiier of several vessels connected with the port. Captain White leaves a widow, two . sons, and three daughters.