PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10233, 9 May 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr. J. H.' Jowett, the famous Con- i gregationalist, who has just left Carr's Lane, Birmingham, for Fiftxh Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, was one of the King's guests at a state dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Friday night, March 3rd. This is the first occasion upon which a Nonconformist minister has received this honour. The many friends of Mr F. Crosbie. of the local office of the Stock Department, will regret to bear that, in consequence of an injury sustained in the cricket field, he has been compelled to enter the Masterton Hospital to undergo an operation. Mr P. F. Tancred, Avho is well- * known in racing circles in New Zealand, but whose health has been very indifferent-of late, has taken up his residence in Masterton. Mr James Allen, M.P. for Bruce, delivers a political address at Hamilton to-day. Mr F. Minogiie, of Napier, who is a nephew of Mr Marthr Kennedy, died at the residence of his brother at Island Bay on Sunday. At the Church of Christ in Pahiatua on Friday, Miss Minnie Olsen, of Mangatainoka, was married to Mr Nelson Polglase, also of Mangatainoka. The sudden death is announced from Sydney of Thomas E. Spencer, author and industrial arbitrator. He wrote "How MacDongal topped the Score." The death is announced at the age of 76 of Mr William Beil, who, over thirty years ago, became a settler in the Halcombe end of the Manchester Block. He followed farming pursuits for many years, and served a long term as a member of the Halcombe Town Board. An old Wellington identity, Mr J. R. Barlow, died at Petone on Sunday. He was on the Victorian Goldfields in the earlv days, and was for some time on Bendigo.