PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3202, 31 May 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Ben Curtis, one time owner of Casket, winner of the Great Easter Handicap, is dead, states a Dunedin telegram. The Hon. A. W. Hoggy will jpjty a visit to the Marlborough district this week. The Kev. F. W. Isitt, secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, is on a visit to Napier. , - n The death is reported from Christchurch of Mrs Joseph Ivess-, wife' of Mr Ivess, the well-known newspaper proprietor. ,. ,. , „ P „.i..,,»„, v .

From latest information to hand, Mr Ueorge Beetham, who was seriously injured through a motor car accident at Home, is making' very satisfactory progress, and has ' been l ' removed to his home in London. Mr William Walden, well-known in the flaxmilling, business in the Foxton district, died on Wedesday last, aged 34. .was a prominent J footballer three' yearsygo, and was-",.popular among his club mates. - -; .. ~ Mr G. '.P. Donnelly, : pf Hawke's Bay, intends to relinquish racing for a time, and .the and white stripes will disappear ifrom the turf. Eldorado has been leased.* The rest of Mr Donnelly's team -in-training will be nominated for future events. '-: DK"wiinam~Pant6¥"Gfig®?oni of the oldest medical practitioners in the SouthJ^d;^igtri(femn*Btßib2ibly [ the most widely known, died on fri- ' day night, after an illness lasting "saffie mcfn.fchs.K He'was born at cjbmarty, ScotJandr J W 4838, studiedffor the medical profession, and tpoMhis "diplomas in 1859. He arrived at Tort Chalmers by, the ship Lady Egraia > and;settled;*ini .Invefcsfrglll "in 1861. He was married" in 1864 to a dafghter';: of the late Mr James Kayf of v I