PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10147, 25 January 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr Martin Kennedy, of Wellington, was a visitor to Masterton yesterday. HUtij. Clement Wragge will lecture in Masterton on FebrtmylOth, on ''Tl^ej:': : Flight' of a Soul." .-■ ■..'.;•;,""' ■.'■ ,-^^i ; '•; The oldest European resident of Hawke's Bay, in the, person of Mrs Sarah McEain, died on Friday last at Petane, at the ripe age of 84 years. - Mr H. Parker, the winner of the Provincial Lawn Tennis Championship in Masterton, has now a record of one, hundred tennis' championships. , , Veteran John Woord, ; late of H.M. 70th -Regiment, passed away at Auck-. , laiad oh- Friday last, at the age of :-75 } y'earay " "■•'.'■ ■■■ _. _. v. v : ..y ""-' .\" "-.--.: The Hon. Dr., Findlay has .gone to Dune'din to leeture on- eugenics arid' other;of the subjects, with which, he claims familiarity:.. ■ . . ; Mr Henry Edmonds, who was for some years secretary to the .Auckland Gum Brokers' Association, died On Friday at the comparatively* early'age,, of fifty, . ■...'■ . • Mr.Parker .M'Kinlay, a member of.!' the. Otago Education Board, intends contesting the Brua». seat in" the Government interest' at the general election. : , , '.'-.,.•'. J •'■ ■ * ' The Bovough Wairpa, ; Mr A. R. Mackay; who is well-known in Mastertbn, is now an inmate of the Wairoa Hospital suffering from enteric fever, with other complications. .. ; i The engagement is announced of Miss. Enid Elgar. 'only daughter of Mr Elgar, of Fernside", Lower Wairarapa, to Captain Hamilton, A.D.C. to j the Governor. .' .. ~ '-.'j Mr W, M. Faulkner, assistant ac-| countant in the office of the Welling-; j ton Farmers' Meat Got, Masterton, [ was most successful inthe accountants' examinations, held in. October .last. J He is entitled to the Fellowship de-... gree, and came third oh the list of | competitors for New Zealand. < j Another pioneer settler in 'the per- j son of Mrs Stokes, relict of the late John Stokes, has passed away. She died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs, A. F. Storey, Whakapara, on the 14th inst., at the age of 87 years. The deceased arrived in Wellington I fifty-eight years ago. Ensign and Mrs * Avonell, the new * officers in 'charge of the Masterton Corps of the Salvation Army, arrive to-day from Feuding. The Feilding Star says: "The best wishes of Feilding Salvationists go with the Ensign to his new appointment." .'■, A fashionable marriage took, place on Friday last, at St. Mark's, Bemuera, Auckland, Miss Gladys Ruddock, second daughter of Mr H. S. Ruddock, Parnell, being married to Mr T. F. . Handyside, of Akitio, Wairarapa. The Rev. Wi Beatty performed the ceremony. Miss Ivy and Mnclge Ruddock were the bridesmaids, Mr Arthur Herrick (Hawke's Bay) was 1 best man, Mr W. Handyside was groomsman.