PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3081, 31 December 1908, Page 5

PERSONAL.

iMr Kyle, father of Mr L. Kyle, of Masterton, died at Ureymouth yesterday.

The many friends of Mrs C. E. Daniell will be pleased to hear that she is making excellent recovery from the somewhat severe operation which she underwent on Monday last.

Mr J. A. J. Mac Lean, auctioneer, -who has been suffering from a severe •attack of quinsy tor the past fortnight, is now convalescent and abls ■to resume business.

As the result of an accident lost «evening, Mrs Beale, of Masterton, had the misfortune to break one of her legs. She was removed to the Hospital for treatment.

Mr R. F. Crosbie, of the Stock Department, has been transferred to Masterton, succeeding Mr E. A. -Farrington, who is to go to the Wellington head office.

Dr Wallii, Anglican Bishop of 'Wellington, and Mrs Wallis, who have been vi3iting the Old Country, returned to Wellington by Warrimoo from Sydney on Tuesday evening.

Mr George Hale, who came out to 'Wellington by the ship Alma m 1857, died at Lowgarth, Taranaki, last week. The deceased was in business at the Upper Hutt as blacksmith and wheelwright before removing to Taranaki in 1884.

Mr Joseph Allan, a well-known Canterbury farmer, is dead. The deceased wa3 a native of Cornwall, and came out to New Zealand 45 years ago. For some years before his death he had owned and farmed a portion of Waikakapi, the famous estate of the late Mr Allan M'Lean.

Colonel Biuehop, officer in command of the Wellington district, arrived in Masterton on Tuesday evening for the purpose of inspecting the Masterton Mounted Rifles, who are at present in camp at "Willow Park," Opaki. The Colonel will leave for the south to-day.

Mr Alex. Whitley has been appointed an inspector of gold mines for the Nelsoo, Marlborough, and West Coast districts, with headquarters at Reefton. Mr Whitley belongs to the Thames, and has had extensive mining experience in New Zealand and Australia. Captain Richards, another Government inspector of gold mines, who has had his headquarters at Westport for some years, is to be transferred to Hokitika.

Mr J. B. Tunbridsre, from the year 1897 to the year 1903 Commissioner of Police for New Zealand, has just been eiactad Mayor of Hyths, a south of England town with which he has been for soma time connected. Mr Tunbridge was elected a councillor of Hythe in 1905. Before coming to Zealand he was known chiefly tor his work in connection with the great Liberator frauds, and the extradition of Jabsz Balfour from the Argentine in 1893.

From Ballarat comes news of the death of Edwrd Devine (popularly known ae "Cabbage Tree Ned"). Devine was well-Known in Otago as one of the beat coach-drivers in the days when Cobb and Co. did practically all the passenger traffic t.i the interior. Devjfie gained the sobriquet of "Cabbage Tree Ned" through driving, for a wager in Dunedin in the early days, a six-horse coach round, a cabbage .tree, having a limited space in which to perform the feat.

The "Lake County Press" records the death, at' the early age of 35 years, of Dr. High Waddell, son of the late Rev. Hugh Waddell, Pre-oy-terian missionary at Tokio, Ja un, dand nephew of the Rev. Dr. <-' a-

~ dell, Dunedin. He was sent from ■ ■ Japan to Belfast, Ireland, at an ■lf early age, to be educated. He re- % ceived his education at the Belfast '■■*■ Royal Academy, subsequently entering Queen's College, Belfast, where he studied for the medical profession. When he was on the point of completing his course his lungs • became affected, and he had to relinquish his studies. He came to the Dominion in the hope that a change of climate would prove beneficial. He arrived some three or four years ago and for a time appeared to improve in hpalth, but consumption, which he fought gamely against had apparently too great a hold*on him. During the last three years Dr. Waddell acted as medical officer at Pembroke, and he more than once gave evidence of his medical skill. The late Dr. Waddell was an athlete of no mean orde~ in his younger days, and represented Ireland on the football field,