PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10066, 11 June 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Prime Minister, bir Joseph Ward, and the Hon. G. Fowkls were passengers for Wellington by yesterdays'- Main Trunk express. The Hon. R. McKenzie, Minuter of Public Works, has returned to | Wellington. Mr E. K. Mulsjan, M.A., has been j appoinled by the Auckland Education Board to the position of chief in- j spector of schools in the district. I Mr A. E. Dobbie, of I ha Welling- | ton Magiatiate'3 Court, leaves next i week for Stratford to act as tempor- , nry clerk of thp court during the ab- ] sence of Mr F. Bird. j The Hon. J. A. Millar visited j Wanganui yesterday, and was occu- ! p'ed d-jring the afternoon with a J deputation mainly on the subject of : local matters, | Yesterday was the faurth anniver- | sary of the death of the Right Ilo'. ! R. J. Seddon, who died at sea on j beard the steamer Oswestry Grangr, : while travelling from Sydney to j New Zealand. Mr Robert B. Macduff, B.Sc., : E.M., and formerly director, of the j Karangahake School (f Mines, has i been appointed by the Education 1 Board to, the position of rrathfimati- ( cal master, at the Auckland Technical School. j Mr G. M. Wilford, son of Mr T. j M. Wilford, MP., now engaged, at j Denny's electrical works, Dumbarton, 1 in a recent letter, mentions the in- • teresting fact that he is at present , at work on the wiring of the e;ectric system v of the. Australian Commonwealth's torpedo boat Yarra. I A Press Association cable message from London announces the marriage ' of Viscount Maidstone to Margaretta, j daughter of Anthony at St. ! Margaret's-Westminster. The presents and jewellery given; to the bride were valued at £50,000, and 1,500 | guests attended the wedding. | Mr A. H. Dillon, of Waipukurau, third son of Mr A. Dillon, M. P., was waited upun by a deputation last week with a view of inducing him to contest the Hawke's Lsay seat at the next general election. -Mr ..Dillon promised to give the matter ccn- , sideration and make known his deci- , sion within a fortnight. ' Of Mr William Scott, the, lately elected representative of the employ- J era on the Arbitration Court, thci an- j nual report of the Wellington Etn- ; players' Association eays-:~"Em-ployers have every reason to ba grati- . fiad at Mr Scott's acceptance of the j office, as the very extensive experi- j ence he has had in connection with j several hundred industrial disputes j in various parts of tha Dominion, and j his thorough knowledge cf 'he industrial laws and of Arbitration ! Court- lulings and practice. . peculiarly fit him fjr the hiyh office ) for which he has been call»d," The death occurred at Auckland yesterday of Mrs Isabella Cochrane, relict of the late William Cochrane, of Reefton. Ths latter was a well-known j old identity of the West Coast of tbe I South Island, having arrived thare | about fifty years ago. As may be understood, the Coast in 'those days was a rather different .place ta what it is to-day, and Mr - and Mrs j Cochrane experienced the stirring j times incidental $o the discoveries . of gold ani thb accompanying "rushes" which made the localities famous the worl l over. As tha helpmeet of a busy timber merchant: and later hotelkeeper, the lute Mrs Cochrane showtd thu sterling qualities possessed by so many of the old plone. rs, and she was endeared to a very large circle of people. She leaves ten children, as follows: —Mr f). Cochrane, surveyor, Fiji; Mr W. Cochrane, faimer, Greymouth; Mr T.Cochrane, contractor, Westport; Mr K. Cochr. ne, -Greymouth; Mr G. t«rrcer, Bay of Islands; Mr J W. Onhrane, Masterton; Mr A. Cochrane, builder, Devonport; Mrs Stirling, Au'-Mand; Mrs E. P. Smyrk, Napur; Mrs Grooby, Westport. The deceased lady, who was 81 years of age, and had spent over.sixty years of her life in New, Zealand, is to be buried at Auckland. The relatives will have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement, and particularly Mr J. W. Cochrane, who honly recently lost his wife.