PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3126, 1 March 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The funeral of the late Mr John Gillies, a well-known resident of Martinborough, who died last week, will take place at 2.30 p.m. to-day afc Martinborough.-

Mr Herbert, of Wellington, Has been elected engineer, out of eighteen applications, to the Wairarapa South County Council, states our Carterton correspondent. Mr H. H. Wolters, clerk to the Wairarapa South County Council, was granted three months' leave of absence on Saturday last, writes our Carterton correspondent, and Mr R. Trapp appointed clerk and treasurer during his absence.

The Rev. W. Phillips was entertained at a picnic on February 25tb, writes our Tinui correspondent, a large number of people being present. Unfortunately, just as the speech of welcome was about to be delivered a heavy shower of rain lei!,, and the people had to disperse.

Messrs Hunn and McLeod returned to Masterton from Hastings on Saturday afternoon. They speak in glowing terms of the kindness tendered tovisitors at the Band Contest, and the musical treat afforded by some of the bands. Mr Hunn was supervisor of the contest, which passed off without a hitch.

MrO. N. C. Pragnell, of Masterton, who passed his final law examination in November last, was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court at Wellington last week. Mr Pragnell has been admitted as a partner in the business of Mr P. L. Hoi- ) lings, for whom Mr Pragnell has acted as managing clerk for ten years. Mr Pragnell's long residence in Masterton, and the esteem in which he is universally held in the town, should insure for his firm a very generous measure of public patronage. Few men in Masterton can boast such an extended circle of friends as Mr Pragnell, whose progress in his professional studies has been watched with interest, and his success sincerely approved by them all.

Mr Andraw Cockburn, one of Masterton's earliest settlers, died at bis residence, Christchurch, on Saturday last. Mr Cockburn came to the Wairarapa in the very early days of the settlement, and took up land on the Manaia which he farmed.for many years. A keen and practical judge of ClydesJale horses Mr Cockburn was the means of introducing to this cia rict a number of splendid brood marts, and sires, whose progeny have been the means of maintaining the reputation of draught horsos in the Wairararpa. The deceased, who was about SO years of age, leased his property on. the Gladstone road, since sold and cut up, and had resided in Canterbury for a number (of years. Mr Cockburn was twice married, but had no family, and a - idow with a number of nieces and nephews, amongst them Mr A. Mutrie, R. Falloon and Mrs R. J. Dagg. residents of this district, are left to mourn their loss.