PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 31 December 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A London cable states that R. Doherty,:> the well-known tennisplayer, is dead. Mr W. A. Kiely, manager of the Hastings branch of the Union Bank, is at present on a holiday visit to the Wairarapa. The Bishop of Winchester has accepted the Deanery of Westminster. Rev. A. Armitage has resigned the latter to become Dean of Wells The Duke and .Duchess of Connaught arc on a visit to the King at Sandringham, giving him a description of the tour to South Africa. The Rev. Robert Henderson, a pioneer Presbyterian clergyman of Victoria, has died in the Old Country. Mr Robert Cooper was on Thursday last elected to the vacant seat for the Maungaraki riding in the Wairarapa County Council. MivV'.*M. Richards, of the Masterton Post : Office staff, and Mr.'G. Apperley, of the Wellington office, and formerly of Masterton, leave early in February on a three months tour of the Australian States. Monsignor Fowler, Prelate of the Household of the Pope, late of the Philippine Islands, is at present on a holiday visit to New Zealand, and is the guest of the Rev. Father Goggan, of Napier, a former schoolmate. Archdeacon Elisor has so far recovered from his serious illness that his medical adviser gives every hope (says the Christchurch Press) that Mrs Ensor and he will be able to carry out their original intention of leaving for England on January 18th by the P. and 0. steamer Mantua. Mr Leo. D. Chateau, advance representative . of Clarke ' and MeynelPs Willoughby Comedy Company, was in Masterton yesterday making arrangements for the appearance of his company in the Town Hall on January 11th. Dr. Findlay, who has been spending his holidays in Auckland, is expected to return to Wellington next Monday. k Sir Joseph Ward left Wellington, en route for Invercargill, last night,. He will return about the end of next week. After a lapse of twenty-five years, "Bannockburn," was the scene of another pleasing function, sons and grandsons of Mrs Grant, relict of the late Mr Robert Grant, assembling at Christmas to make her a presentation. The gift took the form of a silver tea service and tray suitably inscribed. Mr A. C. Holms made a speech of felicitation and Mr A. S. Grant handed the present, to his mother. In 1885, says' the Standard, there were nine sons of whom Mr John Grant is the oldest, two daughters and a son-in-law, to grace the scene of festivity, but to-day the family circle, includes all the foregoing except Mr and Mrs Holms, whose deaths occurred in 1891 and 1894 respectively, as well as six daughters-in-law, one son-in-law, and thirty-four grandchildren. It is interesting to note that Mrs Grant, who was born at Port Gower, Parish of Loth, Sutherlandshire, Scotland, in 1834, came to Australia in "The Herald of lithe Morning," in 1854-55, leaving Liverpool in December, and landing in Melbome (Victoria), after a voyage of about seven months' duration. Mrs Grant (then Miss Sutherland), came to New Zealand from Victoria in 1856, and was married in the same year to the late Mr Grant. Mr Wm'McLeod of "Hillside," Martinborough, was best man. and Mrs Jas. McLeod, (then Miss Sutherland), was bridesmaid.