PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10081, 29 June 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

H is-JSxcellency.tbe Goverftor Lord Ip! ; ngtor, h«ld » ltve at the old Government House (Parliamentary Buildingi) last evening, at 6 o'clock. Mr E. J. Stock, general »lt> National-Mutual Life Association, is at present in Wellington. ' —for A. F. Tmntull, of the Wellinp.t'n Uffce of the New Zealsnd Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, bas been appointed agent of the company at its newly opened Nelsm brai ih. „ r l'he d< ath is announced of Mr Jjs. v 'B. Purkiss, of Balcombp, at the age of 69 ylars. Mr Purkias V was ote of the sturdy old settlers of the JißlcTmbe district, and was for many a ears secretary of the Hfcl combe Town Board. Consequent on its retrenchment inteotiptiP, the Petor.e Borough - o'Uiicii las rest lved to make several charges in its staff. The position of pas cleik is"to be dispensed, with, and Mr T. Bol*on has been re- - lained to read meters at a salary of iter annum.' Mr Woolley, another member of tne staff, has been ap- * pointed assistant town clerk at a, salary of £156. A naval officer who distinguished himselt considerably in the Maori ' War in the Far North of New Zealand, died this week at Fdinburgh. Admiral David Robertson Macdonald, was a native of Invemess-sbire, joined the Navy in 1831, and came f to the East ndia and Australian, station in 1842 as a lieutenant on . H.M.S. Hazard. Early in 1844 the > f Hazard was ordered to New Zealand, and in August of that year, on the death of Captain Bell, Macdonald became commander. In 1845 he landed with-a small body of narines and;seamen to assist in the defence of the attacks of .Jlpue Heke. For h's gallant cjnduct - on this occasion, when he was sev- ' erely woun.ledj he was promoted ' and received the "New \/~-2talaod ine3al. j