PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10139, 9 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr E. Trege-ar's. retirement from the Labour Department will take effect from May Ist next, but he will cease duty at the end of next month. Mr M. Myers, the well-known lawyer, and Mr John Blundell, senior proprietor of the Evening Post, will join the Wellington contingent to the Coronation festivities. A London correspondent writes:— Sir William Russell's many friends in New Zealand will regret to learn that his health has not been very satisfactory of late, and he lias had to cancel many engagements. The Manawatu Evening Standard learns on excellent authority that if his health keeps in the same satisfactory state as at present, Mr W. T. Wood will be a certain candidate for the Palmerston scat at the next general election. The death occurred at her' residence, Dunedin, yesterday, of Mrs J. Hendry. The deceased lady had reached the age of 80 years, the best part of which had been spent in New Zealand. Mrs Hendry left five grown-up children, of which Mr A. Hendry, of Masterton, is one. The rest of the family reside at Dunedin. Mr M. J. Reardon, editor of the Weekly Herald-—Wellington's Labour paper—was in Masterton yesterday. Mr Reardon states that the mission of Mr Peter Bowling has not the endorsement of the general "body of labourers of the Dominion. At Woodville on Wednesday ,Miss Nellie Eccles, only daughter of Canon and Mrs Eccles, was united in matrimony to Mr Kenneth Maclean Stewart. The bridesmaids were Miss Gladys Grant and Miss Rita McKibbin. The bride and bridegroom left by the Napier express en route to Wellington. Mr Frederick France, one of Wellington's earls settlers, died at his residence at Belmont on Wednesday morning. He eam<? out in the ship Lady Nugent in 1841, and occupied the post of signal-master at Mount Victoria for sixteen years, after which he took up farming in the Manawatu district. For the last ten years he has resided at Belmont. He leaves a widow and one brother, MiRichard France, of Wadestown.