PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10149, 20 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Hon. A. Baldey, M.L.C., will leave on a trip to the Old Country early in the New Year.

Mr David Crewe, who is about to leave Pahiatua on a trip to the Old Country, is to be fare\yelled by the residents of the district., Mr John Smith, the oldest member of the Wellington City Council, has been laid up for some days with" ptomaine poisoning. Mine. Clara Butt, who is suffering from nervous prostration, lias cancelled all her engagements for six months, and will shortly leave England for soino time.

Dr Emily Stone, one of the leading lady practitioners of Melbourne while cycling at Hawthorne, a suburb of the city, came into collision with a vehicle, and was killed.

The death is announced of MiGeorge Steed man, a well-known mine manager at Coromandel. The deceased, who was 43 years of age, was a son of the late Mr J. B. Steedman, a Thames pioneer.

Mr Allan Strang, of Awapuni, Palmerston, is about to make an extended tour of England and the Continent, and has leased-his residence at Awapuni to Mr d. Hall, of Christchurch, for twelve months.

Mrs Ellen Moore, wife of Mr Fredk. William Moore, commission agent, of Wellington, died suddenly on Friday night just after returning to her home at Berhampore. At the inquest on Saturday a verdict of heart failure was returned.

Mr Eustace Lane, who is in business as a land agent at Hastings, and has been a member of the Hawke's Bay Land Board, has announced himself a candidate for the Hawke's Bay seat in the Independent Labour interest.

Mr Walter Whyte, who recently visited Masterton with the NormanBlitz Concert Company, and was a resident of Auckland some years ago, will take the tenor solos in "The Messiah," which is to be produced by the Auckland Choral Society on December 20th. •■''

Tbe marriage of Mr I. W. Scotts, of Devon port, and Miss E. Norrell, daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Norrell, of Te Aroha, and formerly of Pahiatua, was solemnised under the happiest of conditions at the Te Aroha Presbyterian Church on Wednesday morning last by the Rev. W. C. Blair.

Mr- R. McNab has given the constituency in Hawke's Bay which wished him to pledge himself to contest the seat at the next general electiou, definitely to understand that for various circumstances, he does not .see his way to give such a pledge. '.I he election is still a good way off, and many things may happen in the interval.

The death occurred on Sunday of Mr William Chissell, one of" the early settlers of Hawke's Bay. The late Mr Chissell arrived in Napier in the year 1883 in the old lonic, one of the first ships engaged in direct communication between England and New Zealand, and was very well known.

At the meeting of the Fire Brigade Veterans' Association in Masterton last evening, eulogistic reference was made to the services to the Brigade in days gone by of Mr P. Hunter, who is _ shortly to leave Masterton (after living bore for a large number of years), to take up his abode at Elthain.

Mr P. S. Quinlan, late of the Government Life Insurance Department, who is leaving for Nireaha, was presented 'with a .handsome travelling bag on belnlf of the staff. At an evening given in his honour on Saturday be also received a present from bis friends at Lyall Bay, who wished him every success in his new venture.

Mr Jas. Bye, a resident of Feather, ston', of over 25 years' standing, died on Sunday afternoon*. He had been an invalid for the past two* and" Z half years, and his death was not al+o«otji©r unexpected. He leaves a widow and three daughters. Two are married, one being Mrs P. Blatchford_ and the' other Mrs Moore, of Konini. The third daughter is unmarried and living at home. The funeral is timed for to-day, at 2 p.m.

The many friends of Mr A. C. Major, late of Masterton, but now in charge of the Hastings branch of Messrs Dolnn and Ferguson, solicitors, will be pleased to hear that he was very successful in the November law professional examinations. He sat in four subjects— Property, Torts, Criminal Law and Contracts, and was successful in passing all four papers, thus entitling him to the first section of the examination.