PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10225, 28 April 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

£~\ The Hon. J. A. Millar leaves Wel- | lington for Duftedin on Monday. Mr J. T. Muir, manager of the Dolores tour, who' is at present in Masterton, was on Wednesday elected a member of the Wanganui Borough Council. Mr J. 11. Xicol, of Masterton, has taken over the Pevenport Press, Auckland. Mr Nicol is a well-known sporting writer, having been Wairarapa contributor to the Christehurch Press for a number of years, besides being the sporting writer of Lhe Age. Mdlle. Dolores arrived in Masterton last evening from Dajinevirke. The Hastings Tribune mentions Mr iT 1). Whyte as a likely candidate for the *T Napier ssat in Parliament. A Christehurch press message states that Mr W. E. Ivory, a well-known North Canterbury settler, the oldest inhabitant in Rangiora, died yesterday morning at the age of 92. Messrs M. Cohen (the retiring member) and Js 6. Cobbe (Feilding) were successful for Manawatu in the election of two representatives of the Wellington Harbour B&ard. r Mr N. Mcßobie, one time of Pah- / Jatua, was a for the "^ailii Harbour Board, but was uiisuccessliiLl.; Mr M. F. Bourke, one fame 'arspki- ;• dent in the Eketahuna 'district, was among the successful candidates for the Napier Harbour Board. Y"~ Mr E. A. Israel, formerly of MasterJ ton, who is leaving Napier, was presented on Wednesday evening at the* - Baptist Church, on behalf of the 1 office bearers and members, with' a copy of the standard biography of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, in lour volumes, ' in recognition of his work as a deacon and Bible Class leader. The pi-esenta-tioVi was made by the pastor, the Rev. J. K.\ Archer, and was suitably '' responded to.

Mr Pierce C. Freeth, of Petone, who has been elected to represent the Suburbs on the AVellington Harbour Board, is an old Masterton boy. He * 'is the eldest son of the late Mr J. J. • Freeth, for years Clerk of tho Court in this town, and served his apprenticeship on the staff of our local con- • i , temporary, vy- The Rev. W. Raine is leaving Masf 'terton in June to take up work in epn- , " nection with the Taranaki Street Mis- •-;• ' sion, St.< Peter's Parish; Wellington.