PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10135, 8 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Major-General Godley, the newlyappointed Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, arrived at Wellington yesterday.

j Rev. Farrer, who conducted the Anglican Mission of Help here in Oc» rtober, will preach at both morning ! and evening seivice at St. Matthew s ! Church, Masterton, on Sunday next, : and in the afternoon at St. Alban's, i Taueru.

Mr David Crewe, wlio is about to pay a visit to the Old Country, yesterday tendered his resignation as a member of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Severnl members of the Board eulogised til-? good work done by Mr Crewe during the time he had occupied a seat »n the Board. The resignation was accepted with regret.

■ Mr T. G. Lennox, M.R.C.Y.S., was in Masterton yesterday. Mr Lennox was for live years in the Second Bengal Lancers in India, and was for twelve months attached to lie Cape Mounted Police. He is starting the practice of his profession as a veterinarian in the Wairarapa, m.iki ing Carterton his headquarters.

A quiet wedding was celebrated in St. Matthew's Church yesterday byRev. H. Watson, when Mr Charles Youle, of Eketahuna, son of Mr T. T. .Youle, of Eketahuna, was married to Miss Annie Seymour Thompson, of Masterton. The bride was attended by her two sisters as bridesmaids. A reception was subsequently held at Rankin's tea rooms.

i The following officers have been elected in connection with the Masterton. branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.— President, Mrs L. Devonport (re-elected); vice-presidents, Mesdames Hodge, Burton and Ross; treasurer, Mrs Miller /re-elected); -secretary, Mrs D'Ews (re-elcctecl). Mrs L. Devonport was appointed delegate to th& : Annual Convention to be held in j New Plymouth early next year. .Tlio Nelson Mail reports the death of' Mr Hemingway Firth, a resident of Nelson for nearly fifty years, and formerly on the Nelson Town Schools Committee for several years. The late Mr Firth came to New Zealand in tho early clays, and was at the Wakamarina, Cullensville, and Hokitika gold rushes. He was also in the Mackenzie country and Ashburton. Captain Peter M'lntyre, of the Stormbird, who has been appointed harbour master and pilot at Wangan/ui, in succession to Captain Irvine, "wio :is'. retiring: after 32 years' \ service, will take up his new duties on January Ist. During the fourteen years he has been running into Wanganui Captain M'lntyre has entered the port no fewer that 1400 times, and without a mishap. The Eketahuna Express says that the death occurred somewhat suddenly at Newman, on Sunday morning, of Mr Thos. Pawson, father of Mrs H. Pet-rick,• aged 68 years. During the early part of the week deceased had been medically attended for dry pleurisy, and on Sunday morning he felt well enough to leave his bed. After being up some time, however, he complained of feeling un- | well and was taken to his bedroom where he shortly afterwards expired, death being due to heart disease. Deceased had been in New Zealand about thirty years, the greater portion of which time was spent in South Canterbury. He leaves three married daughters to mourn their loss.