PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10055, 1 August 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Colonel Porter, C.8., Gisborne. ia aeriousiy ill with acute bronchitis

Sir Joseph Ward arrived at Auckland yesterday to attend the late Mr F. E. Baume's :unera).

Sir Joseph Ward lays the foandation stone cf the now Post Office at Auckland to-day and returns to Wellington by this evening's express

Mr J. W. Irsaei. who is the first .-Auditor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, has been decorated with the Distinguished Service Order by the King. Mr Israel haa a brother, Mr A. E. Israel, on the staff of the Chief iPost Office, Napier, and formerly in the local Post 'Office.

Mr J. A. J. Maclean, auctioneer, ■of Masterton, who has been laid aside for the psst week with a rather severe illness, underwent a slight operation on Saturday, and'is •now much improved. He will resume his business duties in a day or 'two.

A P/eas Association message states, that Mr William Jimiesoo has resigned the position of clerk, treasurer -and returning officer to the Selwyn County Council, a position be has held for thirty-three years. The Council has granted him three months' leave of absence on full salary.

The death occurred at the Wellington Hospital recently of Mr Eugene McGillicuddy. brother of Mr T. jtfcGillicuddy, of Riversdale Station, at the regrettably early age cf 32 years. The cause of death was pneumonia. The remains were interred in Karori Cemetery. Thelate Mr McGillicuddy was a native of Geraldine, South Canterbury.

i>JjSeventy-fiveiast month, and still scoring vigorously lor afflicted children, the foundlings and incurables—that is the present state uf the Rev. Mother Mary Aubert. "How is your health?" was a qestion put to the cheerful, tireless veteran friend of the poor. "I never think of it." «he smiled. . "If aDy pain comas, 1 am out of bed all the sooner, and run about to shake it off.'' Miss Bradbury, who is severing her •connection with the Masterton District High School, to take up a position under the Hawke's Bay Education Board, was last Thursday presented with a set of Japanese wurk tioxes by the pupils of her class as a mark of their esteem. Miss Bradbury wt's also the recipient of two other presentations, one from her ex-pupils and the oth-r from the staff of the school, who gave her a silver mounted smelling salts bottle and gold pearl pendant, respectively.