PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 10 August 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

1 Mr J. A. Tripe, secretary to the ' Gear Meat Company, was in Master|ton yesterday. Dr V. Griffe-, of Dunedin. is provisionally appointed by the Westland Hospital Board as. resident surgeon at the Otira Hospital. Miss M. G. Hayward, the newlyappomted matron to the Masterton Hospital, will arrive from Hastings this afternoon to take up the duties of her new position. A Press Association telegram states that Mrs Jonas Masters, wife of the Mayor of Stratford, died very suddenly while visiting a friend yesterday afternoon. Mr Walter Swainson, for many yeais in the Bank of New Zealand at Woodville, but lately accountant in the Bank at Patea, has been transferred to Auckland. It is rumoured that Mr Joseph McCluggage has been selected as the Government candidate for the Stratford seat at tbe next general election. ' Rev. C. E. Porter, Methodist minister, Masterton, applied yesterday for admission as a minister of the Presbyterian Church through the Wellington Presbytety. The application was referred to a specially appointed committee. Mr Porter is to act as supply at Manaia. Yesterday Sir Joseph Ward despatched a cable message to Sir Wilfrid Laurler expressing his regret at the injuries the-Canadian Prime Minister had received in the railway accident last week. The Prime Minister has also cabled congratulations to Lord Strathcona on the achievement of his ninetieth birthday. Sir James Mills, of Dunedin, arrived in London hy the Empress of Ireland recently, having visited San Francisco, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver on his way over from New Zealand. When the last mail left his plans were somewhat indefi- I nite, but he had taken a house at 21, Hans Place, where Lady Mills and Miss Geraldine Mills were also staying, The following school staff ap j pointments are announced by the Wellington Education Board:—Grey- ] town District High School: Assistantmaster Mr G. Goldsman. Levin District High School: Second assistant- j master, Mr C. Rockel. Judgefnrd: Sole teacher, Miss E. Pinkey. Pirinoa. Sole teacher, Mr R. Gilmour. Wallaceville: Sole teacher, Miss F. i Thomson. Khandallah. Assistant- 1 mistress, Miss Graves. Lansdowne: Assistant-mistress, Miss G. Baggefct.

The death is recorded at the age of seventy-seven years, of one of South* land's pioneers—Mr Thomas Wilson. Mr Wilson arrived in New Zealand in the ship Arina in 1589. He first took up land at Spar Bush and subsequently at Oporo, but about twelve months ago retired, and settled at North Invercargill. He was a brother of the late Mr James Wilson, better known as Speaker Wilson, owing to having held the office of Speaker of the Southland Provncial Council.

The appointment of Lord Islington as Governor of New Zealand *>aß referred to on Speech Day at Harrow, on Juna 30th, at the headmaster's luncheon. Dr Wood, the retiring headmaster, in responding to the toast of "The School," said the government of the whole world seemed to be gradually passing into the hands of Harrow men. The Colonial Secretary, the Earl of Crewe, was a Harrow man, and so was Colonel Seely, Under-Secretary for the Colonies. The Viceroy-elect of India was a Harrow man, and the Gov-ernor-General of Canada and the Governor of New Zealand were also Harrow men.