PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10143, 20 January 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

..;.■::'". . ; . ■• - . * •■■■ ":■ Mr A. W. Hogg, M.P;, delivers an address in Eketahuna this evening. The death is announced "or \Mr John jFraser,, an old resident of-Invercargill, at the age of 61 years. . Captain and Mrs Adams', of the Salvation Army, left Masterton on Wed- _ '._..' i Another old identity of Wanganui has passed away, in the person of Mr. JoseplrGatneld. : >'TheV#sath is-announced'by cable of ■'< : S(r'o>C.L:;'oxo&; >: •"■:••:- \.rf:-]f.r: !, ~' : .-■'<.■'■']"'. j Mv ■ L'. E, Cotterill; sheep-farmer, near Tqkoiiiaru Bay, died on Wednes* ' day night from the effects of a kick I by* a draught horse on. Monday. I Hiigh'Wilker,, a New Zealander, j has been appointed to a second lieuI tenancy in the Warwickshire Regii merits .-'• ''..■.■••.... •,:■"■ !' -*""•' • '■■ ■■■ ,-' •- ',' . ■■. ■'' ~v Apologies for, absence from the picnic in Maisterton. yesterday, were read, irom Messrs W. &' Buchanan, ; M.P.; (who is indisposed), arid J. M. Johnston, of, Palmerston North. Mr Robertson, rector of the Lawrence District High School, has been, appointed an additional inspector under the Otago Education Board. Mr G. H. F. Rolleston, son of the late Hon. W. Rolleston, British Trade Commissioner "'for New Zealand,, who has been ill for ;some time, died at Wellington on Wednesday night. He was thir,ty-nine .yearsi r /o'f age, and a \ son-in-laiv, of .Mr H, D. Bell, '-.KvjC.. -.,: L 'Madame"Melba is 'said to" have j broken downr in health so badly that 'she has-had to cancel several engage- [ merits- It was noticed that on'several the gifted lady, who has facI eel so many large audiences without a J tremor, exhibited extreme and unusf'.ual' nervousness. .It is said tp be j dottbtful if Madame will ever be able ! to appear again in grand opera. , Mr John Cudby, J.P., Lower Hutt, 'has seen 82 summers and will have resided sixty-eight years in the Lower Hiitt on the 30tli inst., and is still hale and hearty." Mr Ctidby, says the Chronicle, is possibly the oldest Justice of the Peace in New Zealand. At t\i& Presbyterian Church, Carter- , ton, on Wednesday afternoon, Mrs M. I Harris was married to Mr G. E. Allen, of Taratahi. The' ceremony was performed by the Rev. L. A. Thompson in the presence of a large number of I friends, and a reception was held i later, in the social hall of -.the Presby--1 terian Church, !'''■• The death is announced of Mrs i Jane Deans, relict of the late Mr John Deans, of Ricearton, one of the original settlers, of the Canterbury Plains. The late Mrs Deans was the eldest daughter of Mr James Mcllraith, of Auchenflower, Ayrshire. She was married in Septemper, 1852, and with her husband arrived in Lyttelton in ' the Minerva, on February 2nd, 1853. She shared the privations and hardships of the pioneer days, and to the last preserved her faculties.