PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9546, 19 July 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr John Jackson, aged 72, an old identity of Timaru, and a prominent citizen, died on Saturday morning. Kev. A. E. Worsley, formerly of Otaki, has arrived safely in England and has accepted an appointment as vicar of a parish at Margate, a popular seaside resort, 74 miles from London, situated on the Isle of Thanet. in Kent. fcMr J. K. Logan, Superintendent of Telegraphs, was entertained by the Postal employees on Saturday evening, to mark their appreciation of the conferring of the Imperial Service Order upon him, says a Press Association telegram. . The friends of Mr W. McLaren, r ef "Bush Gully," Martinborough, who has been confined to the Cornwall street private hospital fot several weeks past with a broken thigh, will be pleased to learn that he has recovered sufficiently tu be able to leave the institution.

Miss Amber Reeves, daughter of the Hon. W. P. Reeves, and a graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, where she took a first-class in the Moral Science Tripos, was married recently to Mr G. R. BlancoWhite, a young London barrister. Both husband and wife are members of the Fabian Society, the well* kno'°n Socialist organisation.

The death is reported from Palmerston North of Mr Richard Mumford, late of the Royal Navy, in which he rose from the position of midshipman to be master. He served in the operations in the Baltic, receiving the Baltic and Crimea medals, and' later was engaged in suppressing the slave trade on the West African Coast. He was with H.M.S. Dublin, when she made a cruide of the Pacific in 1841-2. Mr Mumford had been living in Palmerston tor the past ten years. He was a Mason, having been admitted to the Lodge Isola at Malta in,1854, | ~. Mrs William Wallis, a very old and much respected resident of Wel» lington, died on Thursday morning in her 75th year. The deceased lady was born in London in 1834. and was married there in 1857. Immediatelyafter their marriage Mr and MrsWallis left for New Zealand by the ship Southern Cross, Captain Charlton, and arrived in Wellii.glon in September, 1*57, nearly 52 yearsago. Her family consists of three sons (Messrs Frederick, Arthur and* Frank Wallis), and six (Miss Wallis, Mrs A. F. S. Lorie, Waikato; and Mesdames D. L. Turner, H. de Vere Gilbert, Arthur Ramsay and Robert Ramsay, ail o£' Wellington), There are 33 grandchildren, gaug .. ■