PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10160, 9 February 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sir Daniel Gooch, of Chelmsford, England, is on a visit to New Zealand. He is at present at Rotorua. A cable message announces the death of Hairy Graham, an ex-re- ' presentative Australian cricketer. Sir Lewis Beaumont succeeds Ad- • miral Lord Fisher (late First Sea - Lord) as principal Naval Aide-de-camp to the King. - A London cable announces the death of Mrs Ashley, only child of Sir Ernest Cassel, the well-known financier. Dr.' Wallis, Bishop of Wellington, is at present paving a farewell visit to the Taranaki portion of his diocese. His Lordship was entertained at a garden party at Hawera on Monday. Mr Maurice Pearce, a well-known settler at Ohakea, who was taken to Palmerston North last week to undergo an operation for an internal complaint, died on Tuesday. Mr W. A. Yeitch,. who was recently transferred ti Cross' Creek, has been re-elected President of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. Mr A. E. Israel, one time of the staff of the Masterton post office, is acting as press reporter to the Rcchabite convention now being held in Napier. The Lyttelton'Harbour Board has renewed the engagement of Mr Cyrus J. R. Williams as engineer to the Board for a further period of five years at a salary of £9OO per annum. The successor'of Mr Gohus as inspector of famines for Ha wire's Bay is Mr Bailey, who has for some time been stationed at Auckland. He \\i\\ commence his duties next week. . ~..! Mr Sam Wood, of Napier, has been asked to act as judge of the wool at the Masterton Show, which takes place next week, and has accepted the position. . Mr Stanley O'Neill, of the Standard Cold Storage Company, Johannes-; burg, is at present on a visit to Wellington. His mission is to arrange for regular supplies of New Zealand but- : ter and meat to South Africa. Sir Joseph Word told a Rotorua audience that he was now the senior Minister of the Crown in Australasia, and had almost completed a quarter of a century of Parliamentary work. The death is reported by the Ota go Daily Times of Mr John Simmons, of Hampden, at the age of 70 years. Ho was one of the miners who was allured frQm Australia in 1862. Captain William Farquhar, one of the best-known master mariners in Auckland, is dead. He came to New Zealand in 1868 and joined the schooner Falcon, which vessel is now running out of Wellington. The friends of Mr and Mrs W. A. Corlett, of Bannister Street, Masterton, will regret to hear that their infant son, Frank Alexander, died yesterday at the age of seven months and two weeks, after a short illness. Many people throughout the Dominion will regret to hear of the* death of Mr John Maclennan, of Dimedin, one of the best known of New Zealand's minor poets. His book of poems, "Neptune's ,Toll," was published some time ago. . - Mr Peter Bowling, who is deliverfe ing addresses in -Canterbury, leaves on the 24th inst.;for. Newcastle", but will probably return to the ; Dominion two months later, when it is likely he will be further engaged in organising work. It is reported on good aiithority that Mr Richard McCallum, twice Mayor of Blenheim and Chairman of the Marlborough Education Bbard, will ._ contest the Wairau seat at the forth-' coming general elections against Mr J. Duncan, the present member. : A very old resident of Pigeon Bay. Canterbury, Mr George M'Kay, died last week. He was born in Fifeshire; "Scotland, in 1844, and came to New \ Zealand with his parents in 1859 in ••-* the ship Cresswell. Deceased engaged in farming pursuits for many years,- and was a noted sheep breeder. Professor R. C. Maclaurin, formerly of. Victoria College, Wellington, now President of the Massachussets Institute of Technology, Boston, .U.S.A.. was the recipient of an honorary degree from Harvard University at the close of ; last academical year, and made a speech at a great gathering presided over by ex-Presi-dent Roosevelt. - Mr T. Ronayne, General Manager -of New Zealand Railways, accompanied by Messrs H. Buxton (Chief Traffic Manager), S. F. Whitcombo (Wellington District Traffic Manager), J. Burnett (Chief Engineer for Working Railways), A. L. Beattie (Chief Mechanical Engineer), F. Widdop (Inspecting Engineer), and W. Pearson (Locomotive Superintendent), arrived in Masterton by. special train last evening from Napier. They' return to Wellington this morning after their annual tour of inspection. A very pleasing function took place at the residence of Mr A. McLebd, Pine Street, last evening, when the employees of the municipal gasworks assembled to celebrate the wedding of one of the staff, Mr E; McCord. A r- lengthy toast list was gone through, the health) of the bride and brfde.groom being honoured in bumpers. The happy couple were the recipients of a beautiful marble clock, suitably inscribed. Numerous songs and recitations were contributed, a very harmonious evening concluding with all present wishing the happy couple every happiness and prosperity.