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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3141, 19 March 1909, Page 5

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Constable Eccleton, of Devonport, fcas been promoted to the rank of .'Sergeant, and will probably be transferred to Dunedin. Mrs Loosemore, wife ot the third • officer of the Penguin, who was drowned in the wreck of that vessel, will leave Wellington to day for Sydney, en route to England. A very old resident of Lyell, Mrs Perkins, died at her residence, Peel Street, Westport, last week. Deceased, who had been in illhealth for two years, was 76 years of age. Mr W. P. James, S.M., of Masterton, has been granted two months' leave of absence. Mr C. C. -Graham, late Stipendiary Magistrate ■at Dunedin, will relieve him during the period. Mr Thos. Grieve, one of the best known settlers of Southland, died suddenly at his farm at Waitui, Mataura, early this week, while harvesting. He was for four years manager of the Bushy Park station, Mataura, and was 57 years of age. On the eve of her marriage, Miss Hughes, of Maryborough, was presented by tha members of the choir -of the Martintorough Presbyterian *Church with a silver inkstand and ,pen. Mt Palliser, who succeeds Mr W. Kennaway as secretary to the High •Commissioner, has been Audit Officer for JvJew Zealand in London for over twenty years. He joined the public service in New Zealand in 1872, and, • during his residence in Wellington, he was a popular figure in local athQetic circles. He was a member of the Star Boating Club, and a very keen oarsman. His interest in football—he is still the London representative of the N.Z. Rugby Uniondates back to the seventies, when he was a member of the Wellington representative team. Mr Walter Kennaway, C.M.G., who retires under the age-limit on -June 30th, after 35 years' service as secretary to ihe New Zealand Government in London, arrived in Canterbury in 1853, and took up farming ■ pursuits. He was a member of the Provincial Council from 1868 to 1874, and was Provincial Secretary . and Secretary for Public Works from 1870 to 1874. He was also a member of the Canterbury Board of Education and Board of Governors of Canterbury College. He took up his p«-es-•ent position in London in 1874. During his term of office the r e he was a Commissioner of Jie Colonial . and Indian Exhibition, 1886, and the French Government, in 1839, award- • ed him the honour of Officier d'Aca•demie in recognition of his services in connexion with the Paris Exhibition of that year. He was • created C.M.G. in 1891.