PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10044, 14 May 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Georgetti has been appointed amember of the Wellington Land Board. Dr. J. P. & Jamieson is gazttted Public Vaccinator for the Eketahuna district. His Excellency the Governor (Lord Plunket) will remain in Wellington until after the funeral of the late King Edward. Mr C. J. Reakes, M.R.C.V.S., Director of the Live Stock Division of the Agricultural Department, returned to Wellington on Thurdsday, from a business visit to the North.

Mr W. W. Cook has been appointed Deputy Registrar of Marriages, Births, and Deaths for Palmerston North, anil Mrs H. E Ashwell to a similar position at Raetihi.

Mr Arthur Hughes, son of the Hon. Henry Hughes, Attorney-General for the Commonwealth of Australia, arrived from Sydnfy last Wednesday, with Mrs Hughes, and will spend a few months in New Zaaland.

The death is announced of Mr John McDougall, shipwright, at Northcote, Auckland, on Tuesday last. He was aged 78, and settled in New Zealand some thirty years ago, atter being in the East Indies trade.

Mr Cecil Jameson, the young Wellington artist, has had the distinction of having a picture hung at the Royal Academy, Dublin,. Mr Jameson is about to leave the Allan Fraser Art College at Arbroath, where he won a scholarship entitling him to four years' tuitioD. He will settle down in EDgland to follow art as his profession.

A paragraph yesterday spoke of a man who has lived under five succes sive British sovereigns. Mr Joseph Sparrow tells us of one who has lived under six sovereigns. Mr John Mackay, late of Uunedin, and now of the Bluff, was born at Dundee in April, 1819, so that he was a subject of King George lll.—Dnnedin Star'

Mr Robin Clark, whose appointment as private secretary to Baron Islington, New Zealand's new Governor, was announced some time ago, is well known in Sydney, says a Sydney exchanage He will make a useful secretary, being a graduate of the thoroughly sound Wallington-Nevill diplomatic school. Incidentally, he should be of service to social climbers from the Commonwealth who trip to New Zealand, and who might in other circumstances, have remained vice-regally unknown.

Mr J. King, who for the past eight vears has besn on th2 mechanical staff uf the Wairarapa Age, leaves Masterton to-day for Hamilton, where he has received a lucrative appointment. Previous to hisideparture he was presented by MrA. C. Major "on behalf of the various staffs, literary and mechanical, with a case of Loewe pipes, the presentation being accompanied by expressions of appreciation of Mr King's long and faithful service and best wishes for his prosperity i.i his new sphere. Mr King suitably replied. We regret to announce the dtat'i of another very (.13 resident of Palmerston in the p;-rson of Mr Luke Ward, who passtd away at the hospital this morning after a painful illness. Mr Ward was seventy years of age, and had lived in the Manawatu for nearly forty ytar3. He was for many years in the Awahuri and Feilding districts, but came into Palmerston twenty years aj;o, and settled in Fitzherbert street, having part ot what is now the sports ground under cultivation as a market garden. Eight children remain to mourn their loss. They pre Messrs Edwin (Pahiatua), George, Luke. Henry and Torn (Palmerston), and Mrs H. Smith (Palmerston), Mrs J. Smith (Feilding). and Mrs W. Hannan (Shannon). Palmerston Standard

Before the members of the Trust Lands Trust separated last evening Mr E. G. Eton moved that a minute be recorded of the satisfactory manner in which the Chairman (Mr C. E. Daniell), had conducted the business, and the impartial manner in which he had allowed discussion. Mr Darieli was goug abroad for a holiday for the b nefit of his health, and he hop d he would come back retreshed and vigorous. Mr W. H. Jackso.s seconcei the motion, which was heartily endorsed by the members and carrier l . Mr Daniell, in returning thanks, said he felt well enough to keep on working, but the doctor's orders were against this, so he was off to Australia on the 27th | inst, and expected to be away for a I month.