PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 3 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

It is reported that Mr D. .1. Hughes will probably contest the Patea seat at the next election.

Mr John Hodge, Labour member of the British House of Commons, is expected to arrive in Wellington on Wednesday next

Constable Doyle,, of the. Wellington Police Force, and formerly stationed at Masterton, is at present on a .visit to this town.

The death occurred at Feilding on Thursday of Mrs D. IT. Rutherford, a very old settler, and sister of Mrs F. Harrison, of Masterton.

Mr J. Liddel Kelly, well known in journalistic circles in New Zealand, has returned to the Dominion from England. It is Mr and Mrs Kelly's intention to take up their residence in Auckland

Out of fifteen applications the Wangauui Harbour Board last night appointed Mr Peter Mclntyre as pilot and harbour master. Mr Mclntyre, who is Captain of the Stormbird, has been trading to Wanganui for the past, fifteen years without an accident.

Mr McCabe, the advance representative of the Norman Blitz Concert Company, who is at present in Masterton, is a nephew of the late inimitable Fred McCabe,- one. of the" best entertainers who ever visited New Zealand.

Mrs John Oliver, a very old resident of New Plymouth, died this week at the age of 77. She came out with her parents, Mr and Mrs R. Julian, in the Blenheim, sixty-eight years ago.

The staff of tlie Wellington Meat Export Company met M|; Herbert Fairweather at lunch oil Monday last and presented him with a valuable souveftir on his .sjejering his connection with the' company, to take up a position with the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, at Masterton.

It is now understood that the At-orney-General, the Hon. <Dr Findlay, is likely to accompany the Prime Minister to England for the Coronation. The decision of the Government as to whether or not the Ministers will be accompanied by a party of members of Parliament has not yet been disclosed. Probably it has not yet been finally decided.

Madame Boeufve has received a cable from Paris to announce the appointment of Monsieur Boeufve as French Consul to Liverpool. M. Robert Boeufve, Consul de France, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honeur, etc., who for- six years has been French Consul for New Zealand and the Islands, commenced his career as Secretary of the Francfort Consulat General, and was subsequently attached to the Consulate of tlie French Embassy in Berlin.

A cable has just been received in Mastertou from Goondiwindi, New South Wales, stating that Mr T. A. Dwyer was found dead in his bed at the Club Hotel in that township. Mr Dwyer, who was identified with the prickly pear destruction patent known as 'Perfection," had been in ill-health for a considerable time. He had just completed a contract to destroy prickly pears on 2000 acres at Back Plains for Mr E. Gallagher. The deceased, who was recently in Mastertou, was a stout man, and the cause of death was probably heart failure. Some months ago Mr Dwyer was seriously ill, and attributed his illness to the poisons he had to handle in connection with prickly pear destruction. Some years ago deceased was a well-known figure in the world of sport in Australia and New Zealand, having been a liorsoowner and well-known bookmaker. As a horseowner he won two Brisbane Cups, among many other valuable races. He also took an interest in boxing, and it was he who brought, trainecl and backed Frank Slavin to New Zealand to meet Harry Laing at Wanganui. He also brought F. Weiss out as a billiard player. Some years ago lie kept hotels in Warwick, Stanthorpe and West Maitland. Mr Dwyer, who was a native of Melbourne, has a brother, a solicitor in one of the leading centres in Australia, and another a dentist in Collins Street, Melbourne. Mr Dwyer was twice married, and leaves a grown-up family of two bv his first wife, the son being Mr T. J. Dwyer, of Maeterton.