PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9585, 3 September 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Messrs VV. E. JBiowill and E. J. Riddiford, who have booked passages for Sydney, will leave Wellington •by the Ulimaroa to-day. Mr A. W. Hogg, M.P.. left Wellington for the South on Wednesday "evening. He delivers political addresses at Ohristchurcb, Timaru and Dunedin. The fft'ends of Mrs Phillips, of Tinui, will regret to hear that there is no improvement in the state of her health, writes our Tinui correspondent. Colonel Knight, Chief of the Salvation Army Staff in the North Island, will leave Wellington on Wednesday next for Taranaki, Auckland, Waihi, and Dannevirke The Hon. J. M'Gowan, ex-Minister •of Mines, left for the South last evening, to open the new electrical pumping plant just installed by the Uoss Flat Goldmining Company. Mr James Bryant Eades, builder, Who died at Mitchelltown a few daya ago, arrived in Wellington from the Old Country about 40 years ago, and, with the exception of a short residence at Hastings, had lived here all that time. His death, at the age of 66, occurred after a long and very painful illness. His wife predeceased him by eight years. The family consists of five sons and three daughters (Mesdames W. Tiller, E. Burne and H. Colwell) A serious accident occurred last Monday evening to Mr W. C. Page, writes our Tinui correspondent. It appearß that a drum that had recently held carbon fcr the ascetylene gas had been removed from its proper place, and some water had got into the drum. Mr Page quite unconsciously struck a match, and an explosion followed. Mr Page ' was badly injured about the head and face, and had a narrow escape of losing his j eyesight;. Dr Gunn is attending the sufferer. i A cable message was received in Balclutha on Saturday telling ot the death of Dr. John Dalrymple through a bicycle accident. The deceased was a son of the Rev. A. M. Dalrymple, Puerua. As a boy he attended the Waitepeka School, from which he took a board's junior scholarship; afterwards he attended the Balclutha District High School, and gained a senior scholarship. His studies had been most successful, and he took bis medical course at Edinburgh, graduating a year ago. Since then he has ', held the position of resident doctor to the Birmingham Hospital. The funeral of the late Mr Peder TLarsen took place yesterday after-v-noon at Mauricevilie West. The -large number of settlers present sfrom all parts of the district testified to the high esteem in which " the deceased was held. An impressive service was conducted at the ;, graveside by Pastor Christensen, of jFalmerston North. The late Mr Larsen was born in Denmark in 1841, ■ and arrived in New Zealand in 1872. He was one of the first settlers to take up land in Maurkeville, successfully carrying: on farming operations 'up till the time of his death, which • occurred last Tuesday morning. A widow, eight sons and two daughters ■ are left to mourn their loss, and they will have tha sympathy of a large • circle of friends in their bereavement.

Mrs James Jackson, aenr., of Jackson's Bay, Tory Channel, is probably the oldest settler in the Marl- ■ borough district, as regards age, she having arrived in the district • With her husband (Captain Jackson) in 1843 (says the "Picton Press.") She has witnessed many strange happenings, among them, the swimming across Tory Cfiannel of an indignant wahine who thus tried to punish her hnsband for a too strict adherence to the obey rule in the marriage contract The wahine defied her tangata with weird dances and unholy objur- ■ gations from the opposite shore, lived on shellfish, and was quite ready to submit to terms when her husband paddled across to ber, after a three •' days' trial of loneliness. Mrs Jackson also remembers a visit paid tothe bay by the chief Rauparaha, after the Wairau massacre, when . the party were on their way to the North Island, from Tua Marina. Mrs Jackeon is, in fact, one of the most interesting old ladies in Marlborough