PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10189, 15 March 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

.Mr H. D. Bennett and family left Masterton „ yesterday afternoon • for their new home at Collingwood.

Miss G. Ross has been appointed sole teacher at the. Hinemoa school, and Miss M. Lee assistant-mistress at the Hannia school. Miss F. Hogg, of Masterton,' has been appointed' assistaijt at the Lower Taueru school. and Miss Wv Compton at the Nireaha,school..

.. Thd death occurrediti Carte;irtpn yesterday ter a;;long ,iUness;;of Mrs| Foster, 'wife. ; -XV./Foster .= I'he; deceased lacly leaves a large" faiiiily.; ' "C" Mr Thomas Moss, Chairman of the Eketahuna C } ounty Conninl, Jbaves for a trip to the Old : Country: ;bn March 27th. He has been granted six, months' leave of absence by his Council. It is understood that Mr Moss will be made a presentation bj his fellow Councillors 'at a meetihg oh Saturday .nexj;.' ' • Mr .T. H. Board, coach to the jHawke's Bav waited by the Tongariro'Jsr, England to fulfil' Home engagements during the ensuing summer. . >.

The death occurred at Longlands, Hawke's Bay, ' on Sundav, of Mrs Emily Bridgman, wife of Mr W. Bridg,man, a well-known sheep farmer. The deceased lady, who was thirty years of age, was a daughter of Mr R. Meredith, ex-MJP. for Ashley. - - ' The^Trinity;.^dollege-bf;>;Jiijpsic, .has, appoirtted .Mesrs St MesAtiistralia and Mr Schilsky for New Zealan<l and Tasmania'l ' ' ' " *

' The Timaru , Presbytery yesterday sustained a caJUtp- the; Jeffreys, of Dunedin, to the pulpit of St. Andrew's, which had been rendered vacant by the resignation of the Rev. J. H. G. Chappie,' who' has established a Unitarian congregation in Timaru. .

Miss Vera Dellow, wlio was killed on the Main Trunk raihva* on Friday night, was a daughter of the Rev. J: Dellow, who was one of the earliest Methodist ihiniaters of-Masterton.

Mr W. Jeffries, onetime bank official in Masterton, but now living at Frankton Junction, who contested the Geraldine seat in the Opposition interest at the last election, will, it is stated, again be a candidate for the seat at the coming election!

Rifleman Boots, the champion rifle shot, of the Dominion, is only twentythree years of age, and has beep shooting at Trentham for the' last four years. In 1909 lie, got into the final fifty. He has done well in competitions, and when a .member of the Hurleyville Club in 1907 he won the Hajvera Cup at the Hawera meeting. In the following yea? lie won his club championship cup, and is. runner-up again this year. Mr W. Pryor,' secretary of the Employers' Federation, left Wellington yesterday for Napier, Palmerston, and Wanganui, in connection with proceedings pending before the Arbitration Court.