PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10134, 7 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

.Councillor R. Rigg, who is now living iu Wellington, was present at .the meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last evening. Mr A. W. Hogg, M.P., has returned to Masterton, having completed his ~ ariiamentary ditties. The death is reported from Chantilly, France, of the Due de Chartres, the head of the Orleans branch of the Bourbons, and oi?.s of the pretenders to the French throne.

The death is announced by cable of Captain Bremner, the oldest mariner in the Commonwealth. The deceased, who was 92 years of age, was one of the pioneers of the Island trade.

Mr John Henry Hooper, aged 76. died suddenly in Auckland yesterday morning from.heart atvaefc. He was in town/bit Monday; : After rising yesterday, he complained of feeling unwell, and returned to his bedroom, where he expired. Mr Ernest Tucker, formerly of Palmerston North, but more recently of Hukanui, died in the Pahiatua Hospital on Monday evening. Ho leaves a wife and five young children.

At the office, of the Agricultural Department in Masterton on Monday afternoon, Mr Tate, wno is leaving to take up new duties in the South Island, was presented with a case of pipes by his fellow officers. The presentation was made by Mr T. C. Webb, who, on behalf of those present, expressed the regret that all felt at Mr Tate's pending departure. He asked his acceptance of the gift as a token of their esteem and good wishes. Mr Tate suitably responded. He leaves Masterton for the South to-morrow, to take up a position in connection with the Huruhui Rabbit Loard on the boundary between Canterbury and Blenheim. Much regret was expressed in Masterton yesterday when it became known that Mr Herman Nitz, a well .known and highly-respected settler of Te Wharau, had been found dead, it appears that Mr Nitz left his home on Monday evening with a shot-gun, oveidently with the intention of shooting rabbits. As he did not return, a search party wont out, and his body was found on the side of a hill yesterday morning. He was then quite dead. There was no marks of violence abou- the body. It is presumed that death was caused by heart disease. The deceasec, who was 60 years of age, was a native of Germany. He leaves a grown-up 'family.

; Another of the old identities of Masterton, in the person of Mrs William Anketell, passed away at her home in Sussex • Street yester-seventy-eight years. The deceased lady came to Masterton with her husband in the fifties, and was one of the Small Farm Association settlers. For many years she resided with her family on the Upper Plain, and was pre-deceased by her husband about fourteen years ago. The late Mrs Anketell was highly respected for her many good social and neighbourly qualities. She- had been ailing for a considerable time. She leaves a grown-up family of nine—four sons and five daughters. The latter are Mrs George Harrison (of Canada), Miss Martha Anketell (Johannesburg), the Misses M. and A. Anketell (Wellington), and Miss P. Anketell, of Masterton. The sons are Messrs Charles, John, and Amos Anketell, of "Masterton, and Alfred Anketell, of Ashburton. The funeral takes place at two o'clock on Thursday afternoon