PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3087, 8 January 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr E. Ferry, a well-known resident of Wanganui, died there on Sunday last, aged 57. Mr B. Richards, who has been in charge of the drapery department of the Eketahuna branch of the W.F.C.A. for a number of years, has resigned. Mr Torrance, of the Masterton branch, will succeed Mr Richards. The death is announced of an old resident of the Southland district in the person of Mr William Russell, town clerk of Winton, at the age of 68 years. The deceased was born in Edinburgh in 1840, and came with I his parents, by the ship "Lady Nugent" to Port Chalmers in 1850. A Press Association telegram from Nelson announces the death, after a lingering illness, of Mr J. T. Catley, aged 78, formerly for forty years in the Lands Office as Receiver of Land Revenues; and of Archdeacon Wright, Anglican, after a long illness, supervening on a paralytic stroke o\er two year 3 ago. Mr P. (Jordon, son of Mr Peter Gordon, of Kuripuni, will leave Masterton to-morrow morning to catch the Moeraki at Wellington, whence he proceeds to Glasgow in \the Victoria, which leaves Sydney to-morrow week. Mr Gordon, who has already been very successful in the study of che.nistry, intends to take up the study of medicine at Glasgow University, and he will thus be absant from New, Zealand for a number of years. He will carry away with him the best wishes for his success of numerous friends.