PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3186, 11 May 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

* Mr Laing-Meason, the engineer for the Opaki and Lansdowne water supply scheme, is at present on a visit i; to Mastertcn. Mr C. Callender, formerly of the railway staff, Carterton, was a visitor tu Carterton on Monday last, writes our correspondent. Ihe friends of Mrs of Chapel street, who burst a blood vessel, will regret to hear that there is no improvement in her condition. Mr W. McLaren, who is confined io the Cornwall Street private hospital, with a broken thigh, the result of a buggy accident, is making splendid progress t jwards recovery. On Friday last the death took place of Mrs Dive, wife of Mr Bradshaw Dive, M.P. for Egmont. The de--1 ceased lady had been ill for several - * monthf. Mr Charles S. Stuart, who has been director of ihe Cambridge Band for the past nine years, has received he appointment of conductor to the Invercargill Town Band. The friends of Mr T. Pinkney will be pleased to learn that his wife has undergone a most successful operation at the Masterton Hospital, and there is now a marked improvement in her condition. Mr T. Humphries, ex-Surveyor-Gensral, was yesterday afternoon presented by ihe Prime Minister, on > behalf of "the officers of the Land / and Sjn-ey Department of New Zenand. with a ir.arlc of esteem on his retirement a'ter fil years' service. Mr Andrew Selkirk, a descendant of Alexander Selkirk, who was the original of Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," has died at Cowdenheath, Fife. He was a-i engineer by trade, and had himself lh-ed a roving and adventurous life. He travelled extensively iii Australia and New Zealand, taking part in the early rushes to tfce gol j diggings. Mr F. G. H. Moore has been appointed to conduct the examinatiois for the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in Australia. Mr Miore left London by the China on April 29th, and ia expected to arrive in Duneriin about June 9th, w'.iere he intends making a short stay before entering upon his official duties in Australia.