PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10156, 30 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Duke and Duchess of Connaught were welcomed at Victoria station on their return to London.

Mr A. H. Herbert-, a former Mayor of Eketahuna., was a visitor to Masterton yesterday.

Mr R. A. Wright,, M.P., who was a guest of Dr. W. H. Hosking when in Masterton, returned to Wellington by yesterday afternoon's train.,

The estate of the late Mr Richard Oliver, at one time Postmaster-Gen-eral in New Zealand, has been proved at £78,975. '

At To Wharau on Tuesday last, Miss Fanny Barrcr, who is well-known in Masterton, was married to Mr venue!.

vMr Frank Worthing, the 'Scottish actor, died suddenly at a theatre at Detroit. The performance was abandoned.

Mr John Randall, of Madeley, Salop, an artist and author, who celebrated his hundredth birthday last September, died in November. Mr J. G. Harkness, accompanied by Mrs Harkness. left Wellington for London yesterday on his mission to investigate the Home end of the dury produce industry.

Miss Travers, of Wellington, holder of the. New Zealand Ladies' Singles Lawn Tennis Championship, will in all probability be a competitor at the championship meeting to be held next month in Master ton.

Constable Dunn, who has been stationed in Masterton for the last two or three years, has resigned from the Police Force. He intends proceeding to' South Africa, where he has- one brother a Superintendent of Police;, and another a manager of a mine. Sir William Arrol, the famous engineer, who built the Tay an/1 Forth bridges, was married last month to Miss Robertson, of London. Fie is seventy-one years of age.

Lord Hanfurly, ex-Governor of New Zealand, has purchased the lease of the, house in Lennox Gardens where Mr Richard and Lady Constance Coombe lived, and, with Lady Hanfurly and Lady Eileen Knox, is taking up residence there;.

Mr K. Jackson, after fourteen years' service, with the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union, seven years of which, has been spent in the Eketahuna factory, has severed his connection with the firm, to take a position as supervising first assistant at the Wanganui Dairy Company's Araraoho factory.