PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10195, 23 March 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

"Mr S. Pearson, an erstwhile Mastertoman, but now in bysiness in Wellington, 1 was a visitor to, Masterton yesterday; .. ,

v."S|r-'T; M. Wilford, M.P., has been briefed to appear in a divorce rase to be heard in Masterton next week. 1 Mrs F. Banks and Miss Wright, of Christchurch, who have been on a visit to "The Streams," Carrington,: returned south by yesterday's express. Mr C. F. Hemingway, Town Clerk, at Stratford, is changing his profession by entering the fourth' estate, he having {purchased the Patea Press. Stratford is giving him a great send off, and all the mayors of the town since 1902 have. promised to be present at the function-. . f ,

A ! Perth cable announces the death of Mr Max Maxwell, the actor-mana-ger, \yho was well-known in New Zealand, and who was for a good while juvenile lead of the. Bland Holt Company.

Mr W. F. Massey, M.P., Leader of the Opposition, left Wellington for the ; south last evening. He intends giving a number of political addresses in Canterbury. Mr E. Richards, of Masterton, left by the mail train yesterday afternoon on a trip to the Auckland district. Whilst there, Mr Richards will pay a special visit to the Thames and Waihi goldfields. Mr George Hart, ' the well-known Christchurch pressman, died suddenly yesterday! His son, Mr Frank Hart, who was also a pressman, died suddenly a few months back.

Mr George Bisset, editor of publications for the Government, died yesterday at a private hospital in Wellington from heart failure. The deceased, who was sixty years of age, was, until a few years back, a prominent agricultural. writer for a Christchurch paper.

Mr Michael Joseph, who has not been to New Zealand for several years, will pilot Mr William Anderson's new dramatic organisation on its New Zealand tour, which commences at Auckland on May 9th, in Walter Howard's romantic drama, "Tho Prince and the Beggar Maid." Mr W. Stainton, who for years managed Mr S. Johnston's property at Papatawa, has been appointed manager, of Mr Carlyon's Gwavas station "n Hawke's Bay. .

Tho'Wellington Farmers' Meat Company lias appointed Mr J. A. WiTsh, secretary of the Palmtua-Akitio A", and P. Association and the Fahiataa Central Branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, their PaKiatua representative.