PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10221, 24 April 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

. The many friends of Councillor James Elliott, of Masterton, will be sorry to hear that for the pa,"it week he has been confined to his house with sickness.

Mr F. B. Lowes, of Rongomai, who is one of the candidates for the Wellington Harbour Board, was a visitor to Masterton on Saturday.

The Rev. C. H. Olds, recently of Masterton, is now installed in charge of the Methodist Church at Thorndon, Wellington.

The Rev. G. B. Stephenson, vicar of Pongaroa, has been appointed to succeed the Rev. J. D. Russell as vicar of St. Augustine's Petone.

The friends of Dr. Ewart, of Wellington, will be pleased to hear that he has completely recovered from his recent illness.

Dr. H. H. Holland, formerly of London, contemplates commencing a practice in Pahiatua. The death is reported from Levin of Mr George Spicer. He had been suffering from, an internal complaint for a long time past. Mr Edmund-Goodbehere has been returned unopposed for the Feilding Mayoralty. The Rev. T. G. Hammond, Maori missionary in Taranaki for a considerable number of years', has been offered and has aooepted the position in New South Wales and Queensland of Foreign Mission Deputation. -

A quiet, but very pretty wedding was solemnised at the residence of the bride's brother-in-law, Mr C. Madsen, Hast well, on the 19th inst., when Gottfried Nissen, of Rendsburg, Holstein, was married to May Albrechtsen, youngest daughter of the late Niels Albrechtsen, farmer, of Mauriceville West.

Major Herbert, of Eketahuna, has been appointed second in command of the No; 9 Regiment of the Territorials, which covers the district from Gisborne to Wellington. 3 Mr Hector Fairbrother", assistant in the ironmongery department of the W.F.C.A., Carterton, is leaving on a trip to London, and on Saturday night he temporarily severs his connection with that firm. His fellow employees presented him with a handsome and useful travelling bag, and wished him all luck upon his trip. Mr C. G. Monro, who has been engaged in business in Masterton as an architect for the past eight years, has decided to establish himself in his profession in Auckland. During his residence in Masterton, Mr Monro has always taken a keen interest in the welfare of the town, and his genial-dis-position has earned for him a wide circle of friends, who will wish him every success in his new sphere of life. Mr Monro and family leave Masterton to-day for their new home.