PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 6 January 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

His Excellency the fl' ' turned :to. Wellirigtqn last evening. . * , Sir .Robert Stout j' wiio has been ori a , '" visit to Dunedin, w ill spend at least a , week in Southland. «<He will be in CliristchurcK about January 10th. ; ■ • Professor - Cothe, ofthe United States,"arrived by' theSydneyvboat on Wednesday y : "on a tour of New Zealand. , Dr. Bishop of Auckland, returned to by the UUtfiaroa, which, arrived{at.,.the 'Bluff, on Monday. .'7/ % ■ .. Mr Alex., Reside, /formerly.;' head buyer for the Gear 1 Meat'; Company, lias? joined the Messrs'l)iSigety LtdV "1 •: * ... ; ; jMessrs Hughes and ;Batcheior,.F,ederal Attorney-General' and-.-"Minister for External Affairs, arep&£sengers by the Moeraki for New Zealand. Constable - Hickman, • of Opiinake, >■; • after Q.veif forty years'i service'in the Police Force, will retire shortly on a pension. . The death' is reported of Mr Alfred ... M. Rolls,. Woodlands,, Upper Tutae- - ijaii, Martou., who was' widely known", had been* associated with Mr W. T. Galpin for 37 years. - The estate of the late Hon. H< Scot- ■» 'land was at-. '£14,033, and ; that of the late Taare x Waitara at £16,518.

• ■ H : News was received oil Wednesday of the death a# Otakeho, Taranaki, of t > Mr Henrich Christian West bother. of Mr L. G. West, Pal-■".r-'pf merston North, and a pioneer, of. the / ' Manawatu- district. The death occurred early this week of Mr William, Henry Churton, wellknown as one of Auckland's leading accountants. The deceased gentleman 1 was 64 years of age. He was a son of _ the r l(ite Rev. J: F. Churton, one of - the pioneer settlers of Auckland. , Dr. Brown, of'Hawera, lias'received

v,oid of a. sad fatal accident to a memlier of his family in Philadelphia. His aunt (Mrs James De Wolf JPerry), who' has just returned from p. to Europe , was crossing a street'to take a ,train when: she knocked down by •& motor car, and received fmeh injuries that she died very shortly after. ' cM: -SV-J'ff ."K :-o i' il" —'j •*>!'> 1 , Dr. f J. P. S. Jamieson, of Eketa'hxina," wbo has been appointed.. Medi■cal Superintendent. of ,the Stratford Hospital* is.ttiirty years of age,' a>rd- • » married. He is a graduate ; pf the Un- ; .■■< iversity of Edinburgh of five years' . ' ' standing, having tavern the, M.B. and r *'. Ch.B. degrees in July',;l9os. ( \ The estate of the late .Mr' Frederick Sheppard Grirawade, formerly of Fel- . ton and Grimwade, Melbourne, has amounted to £260,495. He died recently while oh a visit to England, and by his will bequeathed to the Melbourne public Library Tebbit's picture ' 'Ancient Giants on tlie Macleay arid gave £3OOO for distribution among the employees w'bo ; had been five years in: the firm's service. News was-received in-Auckland last / .Tiiglit- that the: Rev?. Father.Cliirie, of--1 the Redemptorist Monastery at Perth, who" is well-known in , New Zealand, Jjas been appointed. Roinan Catholic ' t !Bisljpp of- Perth. • The .Roman Cath- , ' /V< olics of Atickland a.cable of congratulations. to the new Bishop.