PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3098, 22 January 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr C. E. Major, of Hawera, intends taking a trip to the Old Country, leaving about April. The new Premier of Victoria, Mr Murray, was at one time, some five-and-twenty years agn, a resident of' Hawera. Messrs R. Arnst (the world'schampion sculler), Floyd (his coach),, and Fogwell (his pacer) are at present on a cycling tour to Rotorua. It is definitely understood in Government circles (says the "Otago Daily Times") that the ex-Mimster of La»ds (Mr R. McNab) will not be a candidate for the Thomas seat atthi comus byj-alection.

Mr G. S. Mil wo, who was general' manager of the New Zealand International Exhibition, states, in a letter to a friend in Christchurch, that he is in charge of a shipping and South American chilled beef business in Liverpool. Mr H. E. Hustin, Assistant Clerk of the Court at Masterton, is among the successful local candidates whoi sat for the December University examination, and passed in both matriculation and solicitors' general, knowledge subject-'. Mr Hrm-y Sanson, one of the ■ pioneers of Manawatu, died in Wellington on Wednesday night, ?ged 74 years. He was the founder of the first small farm association in the Manawatu. and was prominently associated'with local bodies in that distrtict. He was also a leading fmire in Methodist circles. A went issue of the "People's Journal." a leading Dundee daily, contar.-.s a photograph of Miss Violet E. Ross, the winner of the Obermaier 62 guinea pianoforte at the "musical coTioetitioi held in the Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, recently. Miss Roes hails from Carnoustie, and is a daughter of Mr John Russ,. She is a grand-daughter of the lata Mr Alexander Wallace, a well-known Dundee musician in the sixties, and she it= also a cousin t.t Mr A. B. Wallace, the well-known music teachev of Perry sdreot. Masterton. To present-day musicians she will he better kno-wn as a niece of the late Mr William Wallace, bandmaster, Dundee. The prize-winner, who is only 15 years of age, received her tuition entirely at the hands of her brother and sister, Mr F. W. Ross and Miss Grace Ross, both of whom are well-known as highly successful teachers of music at Carnoustie. It will be noticed that musical ability is a strong characteristic of the whole family.