PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10263, 15 June 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL

A cable message from Fremantle, received last night, stated that Dr. Borgia, of the Marist Order of Auckland, had returned by the Orsova. Mr C. Ibbetson, who was admitted to the Masterton Hospital on Monday, underwent an operation yesterday for appendicitis. His friends will be pleased to hear that he is making very satisfactory progress.

Professor Walter Thomas Mills, M.A., who delivers a lecture in Masterton tomorrow evening, is said to be a very fine orator. In ohe large cities in Australia crowds were turned away from his meetings.

Mr Gough,'Overseer of the Petone Borough, who has been spending a holiday in Masterton, returns to his home to-day.

The Hastings Tribune states that Mr H. J. Cassin, of the Masterton Post Office, is at present on a short visit to Hastings.

Mr G. M. Thomson, M.P., has made a good recovery from his recent operation, and expects to reach Dunedin next Saturday.

The Hon. J. Carroll has been.invited by petition to address the electors of Ashburton on the occasion oi his Southern visit. Mr W. Murdoch, one time of Eketahuna, will be a candidate for the Otaki seat in the Labour interest.

Mr J G. Harkness, Secretary of the National Dairy Association, who has been on a business visit to j,ondon, returned to Wellington yesterday.

Mr A. Leigh Hunt, manager of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company, is making an extended business visit to the principal towns of the North Island.

It was pufeliely intimated at a native meeting at Waihi last week that . Mr H. Stowell (Hare Hongi), who is at present private secretary to the Ac-ting-Prime Minister, will contest the Northern Maori seat. Mr R. Claude, who prevented some runaway trucks from dashing' into the Main Trunk Express on Easter Monday, when ths Governor was a passenger, died on Tuesday, in the Auckland Hospital after an attack of pleurisy. Mr Jabez Bridges is representing the Masterton-Wairarapa No-License League at the No-License Conference Avhich is being held in Wellington. Mr TjJridges read an interesting paper at the Conference on the work of organising. Mr E. F. J. King,;formerly of the Social Reform Bureau in Melbourne, and now of Invercargill, will visit Masterton in the course of a fewdays to personally investigate the effects of No-License in this district. The Horoeka correspondent of the Dannevirke Advocate says it is rumoured tliat Mr H. T. Ellingham will T)e a certain candidate for the Pahia--tua seat-at the general election.