PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10239, 16 May 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr John Eraser has been aske# to: contest onf of the vacant teats ok the Mastcrton Trust Lands' Trust, and it is that ho will becemo a candid,,.;;. «'. The, Hon. .j'anies Carrpil (ActingPrime Minister) Avas the guest of N His Worship .the Mayor during his stay in Masterton. The Minister leaves for Dannevirke by the mid-day train today, en route for Takapan, where he will open a Post Officeio-morrow. He". will return to. Wellington, via'Palmerston North, on Thursday. The friends, of the- Mayoress, (Mrs Coradine):wflf regret to hear. tSat-she is suffering from, aix attack of influenza, and was unable to take part in yes- v terday's function. ' ; -■','"• Messrs E. J: Perry and A. J. Cooper 'were appointed visiting members for the month at the" meeting of the Lansdown© School' Committee last evening.-v Mr T; Reid, posttoaster .at Carterton, is on sick leave owing to eye trouble; Mr A. Ramsay is acting as ' locum tenens. ' ; Mr W; F. Massey, Leader of the Opposition..'.will, by request, deliver'a political address at liivercargill.on.tfae 30th inst. Mr J. G. Cox has been: elected a ;churchwarden of Sti John's Church, ' Featherston, for the'thirty-ninth successive, year. Mr William Boyd, who was for many years secretary of the Wellington Trust, Loan, and Investmivit Com- • pany, died at his residence at Summerhill, Sydney, on April 29th. • Mr Maurice ;Cohen,' the: \vell-fcnowif - musician of Palmerston, will play the viola in the New Zealand tour of the" Sheffield Choir. Another old settler in 'the person of Mr Robert James Dickinson, parsed away in the Palmerston North Hospital last week, at the: age'of seventythree years. " . , Mr Sinclair George, who-is now settled in the Taumarunm district; wns on a visit to his relatives in Alfredton last week, He is still -, nale and hearty. ."'•■■,• r ihe daaih is announce! by cabio from London bf Colonel Si-- Edward Bradfoi-d. who had an apoplectic seizure iii the street. A Hbb.irt cabta states that_a centenarian narr.«>d John Tremaym? died yesterday. He. was 103 years of age.