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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10150, 21 November 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Miss E. Caselberg, of Masterton, who has been spending an extended holiday in South Africa, arrived m ■ New Zealand by the Ruapehu last week. _ - Master George Bernard Cobb, the G W. Cobb, of Maryborough, died last week after an operation tor appendicitis. Mr and Mrs Albert Martin, of Pahiatua, celebrated their golden wedding last week. Mr W. H. S. Nicholls, Postmaster at*the Thames, and formerly of Masterton, retires shortly on superannuation. Mr W. H. Maitland has tendered his resignation as Mayor of Picton, owing to pressure of business. The remains of the late Mr Law Atkinson were interred in the Masterton Cemeterv on Sunday afternoon. It had been intended holding the funeral on Saturday, but owing to a number of relatives and friends being unable to reach town in time, I the interment had to be postponed. '. Sir Maurice O'Rorke , has ' been elected a vice-president of the Historical Society of Dublin, established in 1745- He is the only colonial vice-president' of this Irish learned society of distinction. Mr lUic Shannon, of Wellington, has been re-appointed handieapper to the Wairarapa Caledonian (society. A well-known (gold miner, in the person of Mr Charlie Maberley, died on Thursday, at Te Puia, Waipiro Bay. There died a few weeks ago a very old journalist, Mr Alexander Sinclair, who had been associated with the Glasgow Herald from his seventeenth veai'. He was 82 at his death. He had seen about 50 newspapers rise and disappear in Glasgow, and the Herald changed from publication thrice a week to a daily paper. Mr Sinclair was author of a volume entitled "Fifty Years of Newspaper Life." The many friends in Masterton and the Wairarapa of Mr W. C. Davies, agricultural instructor to the Wellington Education Board, ' will regret "to hear of the death of his father, which occurred at Auckland last week. The deceased (Mr John Edwin Davies), who was.sev-enty-one years of age, was for over twenty-five years headmaster of St. Stephen's Native School; Auckland, from which position he retired early in 1904, Anion ghis pupils were Dr Pomarc (native health officer), Rev. F. Bennett, and other members of the Maori clergy, and the late Hone Heke, MiP.