PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9689, 13 January 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Auckland Presbytery has decided that a call to St. Stephen's Church, ' Ponsonby, be sent to the RSv. I fi a ac Jollv> of JP 31 " 1 "^ 0 " Kcrth. It is expected that Mr Wade. Premier of New South Wales, and who is tourine New Zealand on account of his health, will reach Wellingtun about the 21st inst. In search of health, Mr F. E. Bauire, K.C., M.P.. intends leaving in February on a visit to Entrland, ar.d the Continent. He will be accompanied by Mrs Baume. Mr Alfred Hill, the well-known musician, will return to Wellington from Auckland on Friday. Hi 3 many friends will learn with pleasure that he is very much improved in health. The many friends of Mrs R C. Drummond, of Lansdowne. who has been seriously ill wjth pneumonia, ■*? ill be pleased to learn that there is a decided improvement in her condition. The boy, Percy Madsen, who recently met with a paintul accident at Mangamahoe. necessitating his removal to the Cornwall street private hospital, has made - wonderful progress since the operation. He was sufficiently convalescent yesterday to leave the institution. Mr C. E. Bremner, who some years ago was engineer to the Masterton County Council, has been on a brief visit to Masterton. Yesterday afternoon Mr Bremner left Masterton for his home at Waimate in the South Island. V" The death is announced, states a ■ Press Association message from Hawera, of Mr Philip McCarthy, of Manaia a very old settler. He had been intimately associated with local governing bodies. The death is announced by the "New Zealand Herald" of Mr R. McClune, an old and respected resident of Bombay, Auckland. Mr McClune was the youngest son of the late Mr Joseph McCulne, of Bridge House, Belfast, and arrived in Auckland in the early sixties. For thirty-five yeaishe lived in the Waikato district, and was widely known and generally respected. He leaves ►a widow and several sons and daughters, "■ In that portion of the Church Chronicle for January, wnich embraces the Parish magazine of S, Matthew's. Masterton, is the following announcement, which will be read with regret by many residents of this district:-'"lt is with deepest regret that we record the death of Rev. Saunders Spencer, who was called to rest on Tuesday, Decembtr 14th, Mr Spencer was ordained to .the deaconate in 1900, and to the priesthood the following year by the Bishop of. Manchester, and after serving four years in that diocese came to this parish as assistant curate. For two years he laboured energetically here, part of the time bavflng sole charge while the Rev. / Wyndham Earee was in England. In *'l9*o6 he wad appointed to the Te Kuiti Home Mission in the King Country, where he labonred successfully until he was appointed to the curacy of Te Hemui in the New Plymouth district. Mr Spencer underwent an operation for appendicitis about two years ago, and since then had been in V er y moderate health. We extend our gyfflpathy _tQ_ *s's widow and relatives in their sorr'oW;" :