PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9601, 22 September 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A Press Association telegram from Napier announces th«. death of Captain Baktr, secretary of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, at the %t age of 74 years. The Hon. Dr Cullins, M.L.C., Mr Gresley Lukin, and Mr E. S. Abraham, of Palmerston North, arrived in Wellington from London yesterday by the Ruapehu. The friends of Mrs Phillips will regret to hear that there is no improvement in her condition, writes bur Tenui correspondent, and that only small hopes are held out for her recovery. The Rev. Silas Mead, a Baptist -divine, well-known as the founder of Christian Endeavour in Australia, died in West Australia last week. He was staying with hia daughter, Dr Gertrude Mead, at Perth. Bishop Williams was yesterday presented with his portrait in oils as a mark of esteem on the occasion of his retirement from the oversight of the Anglican Diocese of Waiapu. In the course of his reply he said it could be taken for granted that Archdeacon Averill would accept the Bishopric, Dr R. V. Hosking, of Masterton, intends leaving towards the end of the present month to take up his lesidsnce in Tahiti. His departure will be regretted by a large circle of friands in Masterton, he being very popular. Dr Hosking has always taken a keen interest in matters in ■connection with sport, and has been captain of the Wairarapa Swimming •Club since its inauguration. He has also taken an active interet in volunteering, and wa3 an enthusiastic sup - porter of the Navy League. Mr John Appleton, an old colonist, died at Auckland last week. Deceased ~fras born in Kent in 1837. At the Jge of thirteen he went to sea, but ' 1857 found him seeking gold at Balaf rat, and in 1861 he went to the "rush" at Gabriel's Gully, Otago. He soon, however, returned to Aus tralia, and in 1863 enlisted in Colonel Pitt's Australian contingent, and served in that corps during the whole of the Maori war. In 1886 he settled on a section of land at Opotiki, and resided on it forty yers. Disposing •of his Opotiki farm he settled in Ellerslie. Amongst the passengers who arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Rupehu from London is Major G. M. Button, U. 5.0., R.E. son of the late Hutton, F.R.S., of Christ- ; who obtained a commissiun in thUPoyal Engineers twentyifive years ago, on the nomination of Zealand Government. Since ileaving the Dominion, Major Hutton *as seen much of the world, including India, Burma, South Africa (during the war), Bermuda, Jamaica (during the earthquake). He is now coming out to New Zealand on leave, i\ accompanied by Mrs Hutton, with a ji view of possibly making his home ft" liere.