PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9578, 26 August 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

"Mr and Mra G. W. Deller, of Car'tertort, left England for New Zealand on Friday last in the Tainui, wiites •our Carterton correspondent. The Hon. D. Buddo, Minister of dPublic Health and Acting Minister of Lands, intends visiting Auckland, where the subject of land settlement will claim his attention. He leaves Wellington on Saturday. Under date July 16th, a London correspondent writes: —Mr George JBeetham, who has been an invalid for some time, is very much better. He has been out in his motor car several times during the last few days. Mr James Blair, a well-known business man in Dannevirke, died on Monday last, aged 48. The deceased bad been ill for several months, and hia death was not unexpected. 'The late Mr Blair was a prominent Freemason, and was accorded a Masonic funeral.

The Wanganui Employers' Association has decided to support the nomination of Mr W. Scott, of Dunedin, as a member of the Arbitration Court. A resolution expressing ap preciation of services rendered by the late Mr Samuel Brown was also passed by the Association. Mrs Mary Luuisa Bee, wife of Mr Frank Bee, Napier, died on Monday morning, at the age of 50 years. The 'deceased, who was a native of the Waipawa district, was twice married. By her first marriage she leaves a son and a daughter (Mr R. A. Webb, of the Survey Department, Lagos, and Mrs D. McLernan, of Dannevirke), Mr Frederick Cliffe, who will this year conduct examinations throughout New Zealand on behalf of the -Associated Board of the K.A.M. and ft.CM., Lendon, is a distinguished English musician, who has held several important pianoforte professorships and positions as organist to well-known institutions, bew sides being a composer of high stand- ■ ing. Mr Cliffe will reach Auckland on 12th September, and is due in Wellington about October 23rd. The examinations will take about a fortnight in all the larger centres, and a week in the others, .-and Mr Cliffe will finally leave for England ou December 20th. In the whole of New Zealand there are just under 2,000 entries this year—arecord. Mr Cliffe is accompanied by Mrs Cliffe and their two children. The death occurred yesterday of J? -Mr Robert Joseph Kennard, of Linton, one of the district's prominent :young settlers. Mr Kennard, who was thirty years of age and single, was apparently in good hearth till Hast week. He entered a private hospital at Palmerston North on Sun- * day to undergo an operation apparently for appendicitis. It was, Mhowever, found that ha was suffering from a Bevere attack of pneumonia, and the young man passed .away in the early hours of yesterday morning. He was extremely welliknown in the Manawatu district, and was one of the finest rifle shots in the Dominion, having competed for years past with great success at •the championship meetings at Trenitham.