PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3185, 10 May 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Lieutenant Shackleton joins the R.M.S. India at Adelaide on Thursday next for London. Mrs E. Rayner, ot Chapel Street, burst a blood vessel on Saturday evening, necessitating her being attended to by Dr Pryor. At Hukanui, on Friday last, the death occurred of Mr J. S. Walton, brother of Mrs A. Redpath, of Nireaha. Tfie deceased was 26 years of age. The death occurred on Thursday evening last, at Mangamahoe, of Mr A. H. Harrison. The deceased, who was thirty-two years of age, leaves a wife and three children to mourn their loss. On Saturday morning Mrs Grant, postmistress at Gladstone, left on her annual holiday, which will be spent in Napier, writes our Carterton correspondent. Miss Wheeler will have charge of the office during Mrs Grant's absence. The retirement of Bishop Williams, Bishop of Waiapu, takes effect on June 30th. It may be of interest to

relate, remarks the "Bay of Plenty Times," that Bishop Williams is in his eightieth year, and had the honour of being baptised with the first Maori infants received into the Church of England at the Bay of Islands in 1829. He received his education at Oxford University, being ordained Deacon by Bishop Bloomfield in London in the year 1853. He was ordained priest by Bishop Selwyn in 1856. The death occurred in.the Masterton Hoipital yesterday of Mr T. H. Smith, a well-known resident of Masterton. The deceased, who was born in Rochester, Kent, England, in 1833, came to Australia with hi 3 father when nineteen years of age. Mr Smith senr. started business as a brewer at Ballarat, establishing the n«w well-known Kent Brewery, subsequently selling out. The late Mr Smith then followed mining pursuits, and was one of those who took part in the famous Eureka stockade fight at Ballarat. On coming to New Zealand, he took part in many of the gold rushes on the West Coast. Afterwards he settled in Wellington, and carried on business there for many years. In 1892 he came with his family to the Wairarapa, where be lias resided ever since. The late Mr Smith was twice married, and leaves three sons and five daughters to mourn their loss. The funeral will be a private one.