PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10122, 19 October 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Frank Dupre, who has been on an extended holiday tour, returns to Masterton to-night. Among the visitors to the New Zealand Pavilion in London for the week ending September Bth was Miss K. E. Ashton, of Masterton. His Excellency the Governor passed through Masterton yesterday by motor-car, en route for the Hastings Show. : David Hartley, the fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hartley, of Masterton, died yesterday after a long and painful illness. Mr. T. Riddle, of the Eketahuua branch of Messrs. Dalgety and Co., and formerly of Masterton, has been appointed buyer for the Bush districts for the Wellington Meat Export Company. Professor William Lowrie, M.A., B.Sc, who resigned the directorship of the Canterbury Agricultural College at Lincoln- to take up the posk tion of Director of Agriculture for the West Australian Government at a salary of £IOOO a year, has nowaccepted a like position in South Australia. A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that the probabilities are that the Mr George Armstrong, who died on r the steamer Changsha and was buried on Thursday Island, was the engineer of the dredge Paracale, of Manila, who was expected to return home to Dunedin this month. He was a single man.