PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9610, 2 October 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Isaac Lupton, a well-known Waverley farmer, died suddenly on Wednesday at the age of 75 years Mr J. A. Renall, ex Mayor of Masterton, and now a resident of North Auckland, is at present on a visit here." Mr John Fraser, district land valuer for Hawke's Bay, who represented the Valuation Department at the Assessment Court, yesterday, will return to Napier on Monday. Mr William Jaques, who retired from tha position of Government Canning Expert last month, has decided to settle in Motueka with the object of engaging in tf<e fruit preserving industry. Mr William Scott, who has been appuinted to succeed the late Mr Samuel Brown as emiiloyeri' representative on the Amitration Court, will take his seat on the Bench for the first time at Auckland on Monday next. Mr Frank Hyde, proprietor of the "Wharigar-i Advocate,"died suddenly from heart disease on Thursday morning while being conveyed to \ the Auckland Hospital. He was for many years private secretary to Sir Joseph Ward. As Sir Robert Stout was unable to represent the New Zealand University at the Leipsig 500 th anniversary, Dr W. A. Chappie was appointed in his stead, and was ac- j companied to Germany by his two elder daughters. Mr Alexander Barron, of the Land Purchase Board, is at present in Napier to inspect three large estates which are under offer to the Government for closer settlement purposes.

The resignations of Mr H. W. King, second assistant at the Greytown School, and Miss Kirby. sole teacher, Alfredton, have been accepted by the Wellington Education Board.

Mr A. F. Harding, the Welsh international footballer who captained the Anglo-Welsh team that latelv toured Ntw Zealand, is to arrive in New Zealand by the s.s. Tainui, which is due at Wellington on Monday. It is likely that he will settle permanently in New Zealand.

In connection with the re organisation of the Department of Agriculture, the following assistant directors have been appointed—Mr J. L. Bruce, Dunedin; fields and experimental farms, Mr J. Duncan, Auckland; orchards, gardens and apiarie3, Mr vV. A. Boucher, Auckland; dairy produce. Mr W. M. Singleton, Wellington.

The news ot the death of Captain Clarkson, at limaru, on Monday last,. will concern the lew remaining settlers who landed in Wellington in the early forties, deceased and his parents having arrived in one of the first four vessels to drop anchor in Port Nicholson. Capain Claikson was for many years harbour-master at Timaru, and leaves a grown-up family, some members of which reside in the Wellington province. Like all the old-time immigrants deceased, who never tired of relating doings of the "good old days" when self-help was not to be confounded with selfishness and every settler accepted with cheerful fortitude the scarcity of food, work, money and even shelter. Even so, they lived somehow to ripe old age, most of them doing good in their day and generation. The death cf Mrs Sarah Jane Cleveland is announced. The deceased lady, who was 78 years of age, was born at Home, and was married to Captain George H. Cleveland nearly 50* years ago. Her husband, who had been in the Royal Navy in his younger days, Was drowned in Wellington harbour when going" Off \9 his schooner one dark night. The elder of two sons who had, also taken to the sea, also lost his life by drowning. The younger son (Captain Ernest Cleve land) was chief officer of the Miowera (now the Union Company's Maitai) when she was running for Mr James Huddart. He is now engaged in the pearl fishing industry off the Queensland coast. In the early gold digging days in the Auckland district Mrs Cleveland carried on a school «*t Coromandel, and for many years afterwards she resided at the Thames, where she died.