PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10130, 2 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Richard Beetham has returned to Masterton from his trip to the Old Country. The friends of Mrs A. McHutchon, of Whakataki, wiil be pleased to hear that her health is somewhat improved. .Mr Rod Mcßae, who sat with Mr Harle Giles and others as a Conciliation Council at Gisborne this week, to hear the shearers' dispute, is at present in Masterton. The death is announced from Invercargill of Mr J. A. Mitchell, at the age of sixty-three. Deceased was one of. the earliest settlers of Southland, and he was prominenty identii fled : with agricutural and pastoral "affairs, and for fifteen years was Mayor of East Invercargill. He leaves a widow and grown-up famiiy. The funeral of the late Mrs Catherine McKenzie, of Greenhaugh, Stoney Creek', and mother of Messrs W. and T. McKenzie, of Masterton, took place on Tuesday afternoon. The cortege was a very long one, and included a great number of old residents from this and other districts, who had gathered to pay the last tribute of respect to the departed lady. The whole of the male relations of deceased walked all the way from Greenhaugh to the cemetery at Terrace End, where ,'the burial, service was conducted bv the Rev. A. Doull, M.A. ' •, -