PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10148, 26 January 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

Major-Genoral Godley, Commandant of the Forces, left for the south last night on a visit of inspection. Mr Thomas Marshment, an old and respected resident of Wellington, died on Tuesday at tho age of sixty. Messrs F. M. B. Fisher, M.P., G. Ollivier and H. M. Parker, left Masterton for Wellington yesterday afternoon. _ Mr Walter E. Taylor, of Wioton, lis likely to be a candidate for the Wallace seat at the general election in opposition to Mr: J. C. Thomson. One of Southland's early. settlers, - in the person of Murdoch ' ; ;McKenzie, died at Invercargill last week, at the. ajge of 75 years.; ; v;ii."~ 'Mr- P. Garyey, of Mastertoh; has ; been appointed representing agent for : Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., at the I Upper Hutt. Mr Jtistice Dennistori, father of Mr M. E. Denniston, of Wellington, who was a competitor at the lawn tennis tournament in Masterton this week, returned by the Moeraki from Sydney yesterday. : ) A quiet wedding was celebrated at St. Peter's Church, Pahiatua, on : > Monday, when Mr Kenneth - M. H. i , Cumber was married , to., Jfiss. • I Mable C. Ransom, only daughter of i Mr W. S. Ransom, of Pahiatua. ; . News has been received that Mr victor Booth, of: the Royal Academy of Music, London, lias been appointed examiner for the ~ Associated Boferd and Royal College 6f Music. Mr Booth 1 I is an old Wajtaki -High School boy, > and a nephew of Mrs William Hood, and cousin to Miss Eva W. Hood, of Masterton. The death occurred at . Timaru on f Monday of Mr Ernest F. G. Johansen. solicitor, at the early age of 33 years. Deceased was' the son' of Dr. Johanseh," of . Nelson, and; was wellknown to a number of people in Mas-. terton and Eketahuria. One of his sisters is at present in Germany with Mrs F. von Ileden, formerly of Eketahuna. ... The death took place on Saturday of Mrs Giles, wife of Dr. J. Giles, at the advanced age of 80 years, after a short but severe attack of influenza. The deceased lady was a direct descendent of Admiral Drake, and came out to New Zealand with her husband/ in the sixties, and after living in various parts of the Dominion they set- , tied at Mt. Eden, Auckland, over 20 years ago. • Mrs Elizabeth M'Millan Stalker, a very old resident; of Seaward; Downs die<jl . > week v aged ninety, years: Sl\e was pre-- , Donald Stalker, by some, thirty-seven years. Mrs Stalker arid her husband came to the colony by the ship Peter D€mny-in : :1873:/: v " 'i'-*i"" : -v :','r Mr H. Baigent, ex-Mayor of Nelson, has booked a passage to London by the Corinthic, leaving Wellington on 23rd March. He intends being present at the Coronation celebrations, and will - afterwards visit the Continent and - America. i The death occurred' on Saturday last of Mrs Ward, wife of Mr John Ward, of Brook Valley, Nelson, at the age of ; 72. The late . Mrs arrived in' Nelson in the Bolton in ; 1842, and took up her residence in the Brook Valley, arid* never left the city during her lifetime. ; 1 An old resident of Wanganui Mr-Fred Williams, passed away ion Thursday evening after a lingering illness,. Mr Williams was bom at Danzic, Prussia, and would have been. 71years last Sunday. ; .H? had been ... fifty years in'the Domiiiiqn j: .45 years ' being spent in Wan^anui;'' \ - { :