PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10163, 13 February 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

A Vienna cable, received last night,' . announced the death of. Mr Albert . ■ Rothschild. ' '". ; , The Veti. Archdeacon - Fancourt 'passed thrqugh Masterton for 'Ek'eta-; ; on;SatufdJiyv' -" ;■''■.''':.■ : ;: ; - ■' Mr Bernard J.,Dolan, of Napier, and formerly of this town, has very , i generously offered to act free of as judee of elocution at the Masterton* / musical and elocutionary contests... ; Mr Henry, the oil expert, will ar- ',.." "riye in Masterton to-morrow night. 'He wUI probablyhe a visitor to the sliow, and will subsequently proceed to'Blairlogie and Akitio. Mr J. Corrigan, of Christchurch, who took a prominent part in the for-> raationpf the Wellington ; Farmers' Meat Company, is at present on a visit to Masterton. ~& Mr H. Marshall, who is leaving 1 _ - Eketahunato join the Methodist ministry, has been presented by the local (Odfellows' Lodge, of which he was a member, with a travelling bag. Mr J. Torrance, who has relinquished .control of the drapery department of the W.F.C.A.at Eketalraria; to. /. : enter into business at • Tatiranga on his own account, has .been presented ;■ hy his fellow worker.", with a travelling nig, as a mark of the esteem in. which he was held. The Rev. James Rattray, paster of the Presbyteriann Church at Pongarwill be a visitor to Masterton this week. Twenty years ago Mr Rattray was.the officer in charge of the local corps of the Salvation Army. In a letter to a friend, he states that he has a vivid recollection of playing with the old .Volunteer Band at the Masonic funeral which was accorded the late Mr Peter Dickst>n,one of the victims of the Pahiatua poisoning case. ■ ' After the evening services at St. Patrick's Church last evening, the '., choir assembled to make a presentation to Miss Lily Stempa, one of its members, on the occasion of her approaching marriage. Mr A. R. C lunny, the conductor of the choir, ' made the presentation, which took the of a solid silver" tea service, and ;' in doing so referred in eulogistic .terms, -to the assistance rendered the choir < by Miss Stempa during the many years she has been associated with the same as a member, and on behalf of the choir wished Miss Stempa every possibly happiness in the future. Mr : J. J.. Kelliher suitably responded on . behalf of Miss Stempa. ''(