PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9596, 16 September 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Rev. V. H. Kitcat, of Eketahuna, has been appointed vicar of the Ang!i:ao Cnurch at Marton. The Masterton friend of Mrs J. Yarr will regret to bear that she is at present lying somewhat seriously ill in a private hospital at Napier. The death is recorded of Mrs Pattigon, of Kumeroa, mother of Mr R. Pattison, ex-county councillor, at the advanced age of 86 years. Madame Melba, in the course of an interview, stated that it was her intention in about two years to retire, and settle on the land in Australia. All the members of the Ministry are in Wellington, excapt the Hon. Jarneti Carroll, who is at Bulls, and the Hon. Dr FinJlay, who is at Rotorua. It is stated that Sir William Russell contemplates a trip to the Old Country, and is likely to leave for England towards the end of the year. The Minister of Justice is expected to Officially open the new post office at Huntly on Friday. Mr Thompson, who for several years has beei- on j the Auckland telegraph staff, will be the first postmaster. The friends of Mr H. W. Rishworth, surgeon dentist, will be pleased to learn that he has quit? re- j covered from the effects of his recent j motor bicycle accident. His locum tenens, Mr H Perrin, will return to Auckland next week. The Hon. James McGowan, formerly Minister of Mines, has return ed to Wellington from the West Coast, and will remain in Wellington until the session commences. He is a delegate from the Thames Harbour Board to the conference of Harbour Boards which commences in Welling' ton on beptember 21st. Archdeacon Towgoud has resigned both the Archdeaconry of Wanganui and the cure of Marton The Archdeaconry has been divided irif;o two portions. To the Northern Arch, deaconry the Bishop has appointed Rev. J. A. Jacob Vicar of Christ Church, Wanganui, and to the Southern Archdeaconry the C. C. Harper, Vicar of Palmerston North. The death occurred in Hawera on Thursday evening, after a short illness. of an old and respected colonist in the person of Mr Frdderkk Beechey, at the age of 79 years. The deceased, been ailing for some yeurs, came out to the colony in the ship Castle Eden, one of the first four ships fo come to New Zealand, abuut the year 1849. The deceased had been a resident of Hawera for sbout thirty years. When Mr Acting-Jus'ice Backhouse took his seat on the Bench in the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, last Tuesday, Mr C. A White introduced Mr H. F. von Haast, of Wellington, and moved tor his admission to the Bar of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. His Honour said that any one of Mr von Haast's credentials would be sufficient to eecure the admission asked for, and he had much pleasure, therefore, in granting it. The death is announced of Mr Franz Scherff, who passed away at Auckland on Saturday morning. The deceased arrived in Victoria in the early fifties, and entered into commercial pursuits at Bendigo. He came to New Zealand in 1861, and has been in Auckland ever since. During the war in the Waikato his commercial operations were extensive, and he controlled the steamer traffic on the Waikato River. For the last 35 years the deceased gentleman was associated with the Taupiri Coal Com pany. of which he was secretary. Tehi Rahi, a well-known chief of the Ngatimahuta and Ngatiwhenunga, who succeeded to the native premiership when the split between "King" Mahuta and Tupu Taingakawa occurred some three years ago, died at Ngaruawahia on Friday last, at the age of sixty-five years. After the tangi, which is expected to be very largely attended, the remains of the deceased chief will be buried in the "royal" cemetery, on Taupiri mountain. Heart and lung troubles aie said to have caused death.

The Revs. L. Thompson (Carterton), J., C. Mill (Fdhiatua), A. Thomsoii (Petone), Dr Gibb (St. John's), W. J. Comrie (Wellington), W. Douglas (Evans Bay), J. McCaw (Lower Hutt), .G. H. Jupp (Bible Class secretary), and W. Shirer (St. James'), have been appointed by the Wellington Presbytery to represent it at the meeting of general assembly in Christchurch next month. The Wellington representation will also include elders from seven sessions, some of whom have already made theT appointments as follow: —Wairarapa South, Mr W. Allen; St. Andrew's, Wellington, Mr Johnson; Kent Terrace, Wellington, Mr W. Hannay; Onslow, Mr W. A. Patterson. The Masterton, Martinborough, and Brooklyn ses sions have not yet selected their elders.