PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10251, 30 May 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. Hessey, who has had to undergo an operation at the Sussex Street private Hospital, is making splendid progress. It will be about ten days before he will be able to leave the institution.

Mr Frank Morton, the well-known journalist, is at present lying seriously ill at Wanganui.

Mr T. J. Porter, formerly licensee of the Club Hotel in Masterton, left yesterday for Wellington, where he intends making his abode. On Saturday night Mr Porter was entertained by a number of friends at the Club Cafe, and presented with a travelling outfit and a gold sovereign case. . Mr Porter, in acknowledging the gift,. said he would always have a warm place in his heart for Masterton, for it .was here that he first work as a baker's boy. '■""''.•■

Messrs H. Morrison and J. C. Coop-' er, * of Masterton, are motoring through to Woodville to-day, to be present at the Provincial Conference of the Farmers' Union.

Mrs John Bidwell, Mr and Mrs Roy Barton, and Miss Nina Marchant leave on the 20th of June for the Islands trip.

Mr S. J. Sievers, prior to his departure from Featherston for Martinborough, was presented with a set of military hair brushes by the staff oi the Bank of New Zealand.

The death is announced of Mr L. Irvine, a settler who has resided in the Patea district for over 30 years.

Mr William Joseph Park, one of the Crimean and Indian Mutiny veterans, died on Wednesday at Wanganui,. where he had resided for many years. Deceased was for twenty years in the* 6th Dragoon Guards, and was through the Crimean war and Indian Mutiny, having been at Meerut when the Indian revolt took place.

A London cable, received last night, recorded tho ''death of Sir Charles Alfred Elliott, Vt retired Indian officer, at the ago of seventy-six. A Sydney cable records the death of the Rev. Anderson Gardiner, a Presbyterian "minister, formerly in charge of the Bluff Church.

Mr H. C. Gronn. of Marton Junction, informs the Rangitikei Advocate that he will l>e a candidate for Manawatu in tho Liberal interest. "He claims tlrat he can roar like a lion, and has a hide like a rhinoceros," state r . the Advocate.