PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10176, 28 February 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr F. M. B. Fisher,'m.P„ has' left Wellington on a visit to Australia. His Excellency the Governor and Lady Islington arrived in Wellington from the South on Sunday. .Mr Lane, who had been appointed acting-Town Clerk for Masterton, is confined to his house with sickness, and has found it necessary to relinquish the position. A Christchurch telegram'states'that the Government has appointed Mr Fjvan Parry, engineer, of London, as engineer in charge of the hydro-elec-trical works about to be carried out by the State. There were 197 applications received in England for the position. 7. " \ > The. death occurred at the Lower. Hutt on Saturday night": of Mr. C. W. Hursthouse, who retired from the nosition of Engineer to the Public Works Department in 1909. The deceased, who: was seventy years of age, belonged to a pioneer family of New Plymouth, where he was educated. He served th'rough the Maori war and w'as a recognised Maori linguist. The late Mi- was .one of nature's gentlemen, and Vas held in the very highest respect by all sections of the community. .Mr J. E. Wilton, a Masterton,,boy who 1 darned his trade with the Wai-rarapa-Age (then the Star), but ,wlio has for some years been in fyusineps in British Columbia, as, at present on a visit to his friends in Masterton. .Mr Wilton expresses siirprise at the rapid wrogress made by the township since he was last here ten .years>ago. Mr Wilton, who was President of the Asiatic .Exclusion League in Vancouver, during the riots of 1908, was nominated for the Federal House of Canada at the last elections, but did not go to the poll. He returns to Vancouver in : April. . Mr and Mrs W. T. Mansfield leave Masterton for their new home at Wanganui to-morrow. A number of friends assembled at the residence of His Worship the Mayc>r (Mr Coradine), after the public presentation last evening, and presented Mrs Mansfield with a handsome dressing ca.se. The presentation, was accompanied with very cordial wishes for the future haupiness and prosperity of both Mr and Mrs Mansfield. •