PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10192, 20 March 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Stevens, an Inspector in the Pos■tal Department, is at present on an ■ official visit to Masterton. / '

••"- Bishop arid Mrs Wallis, who are re'turriing; to England, will leave Wellington by the Arawa on April 20th. A London cable, received last night, announced the death of the Right 3Rev. E; S. Stuart, D.D., ex-Bishop of Waiapu. The deceased, avlio was 84 years of age, was Bishop, of,Waiapu 'from 1877 to 1893. He went to..Eersia •as a missionary in 1894. . ' ; s :'

At a meeting of- the , Eketahuna ' County < Council oh Saturday' tystj the. Chairman (Cr. T. Moss) who&abbut to ■pay a visit to the Old ;was presented by , his colleagues witji" h 'travelling rug and bag. Mr Deller, junr., of Carterton, who is going for a trip to England next month, has been appointed delegate of the East Coast A. and P. Society to the agricultural conference to be held at Norwich in July.

Mr H. T. Thompson, who was one of the party to make the journey across the Tararua ranges from Levin to Masterton, is the well T knowh Wellington pedestrian 'who : .won;the last Marathon race. ;

' s -'' ■ Mr Francis Shaw; an old settler of

the Masterton district, together with

Mr and Mrs Frank Hood and daughter,'leave on a ftip to the Old Country "by the Corinthic on Thursday next. Mr Shaw, who is now seventy-esven years of age, has been thirty-six years in the