PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3140, 18 March 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Miss Rubi Seddon is leaving for England by the Athenie on the 25th. She will travel with Dr and, Mrs Murice, and expects to beawav about twelve months. The Hon T. Kennedy Macdonald. M.L.C., and Mrs Macdonald intend leaving on a trip to London at the tnd of the present month. Mr Macdonald has been recommended by his j medical adviser to have a complete lest from business He hopes to ba back in time for the- latter part of the Parliamentary Seßsion. Pressure of business has obliged the Hon. A. W. Hogg, Minister for Roads and Bridges, to postpone his next visit to th*> for a few day 3. He intends to leave early next week for Pongaroa and other places in the hinterland of the Wairarapa and Forty Mile Bush districts He will then go on to Kawhia, Mokau, Te Kuiti, and other places in the King Country. He expects to be absent from Wellington altogether about ten days. One of the oldest residents of Wan•ganui died suddenly on Monday last, Mr T. Moon. Deceased had been ailing for some time, but the end was not expected. He eame out to New Zealand in the schooner Ariel in 1855, and immediately took up his residence in Wanganui, where he remained till the time of his decease. During the troublous times he played his •part in the militia. Another of the band of hardy pioneers of the colonies has died at Auckand, Mr William Dunne, who had reached the advanced age of eighty years. He was born in County Wictdow, Ireland, and landed in Sydney as far back as 1846, ■when but a youth seventeen years of age. He' came across to New Zealand in the William Denny., and worked for some time in the copper mines at Kawau. Subsequently he returned to the Australian goldfields. -working ob the Turon, N.5.W.., and •was present at the time of the Ba!}aratxiot Later on Mr Dunne returned to the Dominion, and carried in business as an ironmonger in Auckland. ,