PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9683, 6 January 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The representative of the Austral Uniscope Company is in town making arrangements for the company's open air pictorial entertainments, commencing on the Masterton Showgrounds on Monday evening next. A Press Association telegram from Greymouth states that Mr Richard Clougb, a Greymouth settler, diggar, butcher, a grand sportsman and clerk of the course to the Greymouth Jockey Club and Trotting Club for years, was found dead in bed on Tuesday last. Mr J. A. Hutton. until recently Chief Postmaster in Wellington, and who recently retired, has taken up hi i residence in Greytown, writes our correspondent. The death is announced at Sandhurst, Berkshire, of Colonel Joshua Frederick Kemms Betty, late Royal Artillery, aged 75. He served in the New Zealand war in 1864-66, including the Waikato campaign, and the action at Orakau, and also served during the Wanganui campaign, and commanded the field guns in action at the Patea river in March, 1865. He was present at the attack and defeat of the natives a Kaitaki. A wedding which created great interest in fashionable circles was celebrated in Christchurch on Tuesday afternoon, when Miss Ehrenfried, only daughter of Mrs Ehrenfried, of Auckland, was married to Mr Cecil Louisson, youngest son of the Hon. Chas. Louisson, M.L.C., of Christchurch. The ceremony, which was very impressive, was solemnised in the Christchurch Synagogue, the Rabbi, the Rev. I. A. Bernstein, officiating. The best man was Mr Louisson, brother of the bridegroom, and the bridesmaids were Miss Cato, of Auckland, and Miss Harris, of Christchurch, cousins of the bridegroom. The late Mr David Forsyth, who died at Dunedin, was born at Ballachraggan Farmhouse, Alness Rossshire, Scotland. He was & solicitor in the Supreme Court of Scotland, and practised in Edinburgh. He came out to Dunedin in January, 1899, and joined the Otago Chess Club. It was only in his twenty-sixth year that he learned to play chess, but he made rapid strides in the game, and shortly made his appearance in the major tournament of the first congress of the Scottish Chess Association at Glasgow, where he won a majority of games against the strongest and most experienced players in Scotland, and for a time seemed first favourite for the championship. He was the author of the "Forsyth" notation, and possessed the power in a marked degree of playing blindfold.