PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10193, 21 March 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

' Mr J. T. Burns, an ex-State Treasurer of New South Wales, is dead. Inspector Bakewell, of Wellington Education Board; is -at presentlii the MasteWbh. district j • -'

Sir Joseph Ward ', the Hon. Dr. Findlay, and party, arrived at Suva by the Makura yesterday, "all well."

' Sir Richard Baker, the first President of the Commonwealth Senate, 'd> dead.

i Dr. Ewa'rt, of Wellington, who 'been rathei" seriously ill, is reported to be progressing favourably. '■:,-.■■'•.■' The Rev. D. J. Murray, formerly of Masterton, but now of Dunedin, is about to payia-ivisit■ to the Old Coun-

Mr James Archer,., of Napier ; Masterto'n's. newly appointed Town Clerk and Borough Engineer, will commence hh duties on the I.7th of next month.

The Rev. S. F. Prior, at one time Methodist minister in Masterton, is at present on a visit to his son, Dr. N. Prior. ,

. Mr E. J. Chilton, an .erstwhile resident of Masterton -and now of Wellington, was on a visit, to this town yesterday. Mr Chilton left for the city, by tho afternoon train. . ■. Amongst the officers who attended the;.' ( training^ca'mp.- : at;..y.Tanherenikau" Inst week was Colonel Bowler, of Otago. •.''•■. Mr Thomas Blatchford, who for the past, two years has been chief warder at the' Wellington Terrace Gaol, died yesterday morning at the ago of sixtythree. ! "

" : .It is rumoured that Mr P. C. Freeth, the ■editor and proprietor of the/Eetbne Chronicle, and an old'Masterton boy, is likely to be a candidate for Wellington Suburbs seat at the forthcoming general election.

At Wellington last week, Mr Alfred F/lkins, second fon of Mrs A. Elkins, of .Johnston Street, Mastertdn, was married to Miss Eva Rigg. eldest daughter of.Mr R. Ripe, formerly of this town Wit now of Wellington. The bridesmaids were Misses Mabel Rigg and Enid Pragnell. Mr L. S. Nicol acted as best man, and Mr A. Rigg as groomsman. The ceremony was performed in the Trinity * Methodist Church, the Rev. ?T. Ward being the officiating clergyman. Mr Thomas Ballantyno, a wellknown North Canterbury contractor, died on Saturday, states a Press Association telegram. Tn the early days he settled on th« West Coast, and he was the late Mr Seddon's first employer in New Zealand.

Mr Richard M'Jsaac," whose death was announced recently at the age of eighty years, was one of the pioneers of Mai-lborough, according to the Marlborough Press. He' landed at Nelson in 1842, and was one of the first to settle in the Wairati district, arrivine there irv 1851. He was married in 1838. and in May, 1908, celebrated his golden wedding.