PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10284, 12 July 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr C. C. Cox, one time of Masterto:!, but r>ow of Dannevirke, has been elected Chairman of the Davis Cup Committee, which h making arrangements for the New Zealand Tennis Tournament to be held in Christchurch. Mr Duncan McLachlan, engineer to the Masterton County Council, has been confined to his house for the last three weeks, as the result of a chill. He hopes to be about again in the ; course of a few days. A Prevss Association telegram from Timaru last night recorded the death of a pioneer farmer in Mr Michael Gaffaney, of Arowhenua. The deceased, who w.is seventy-five years of age, was a native of Derbyshire, and came to New Zealand fifty-eight years ago. The remains of the late Mr James Hanley were interred in the Masterton cemetery yesterday afternoon. The funeral cortege was very lengthy r id representative, and included a 1 -;e number of Foresters and member., of the Fire Brigade. The ceremony at the graveside was performed by the Rev. Father Harriett. The impressive service of the Foresters' Lodge was read by Bro. Candy.

News was received in Wellington on Monday night of the sudden death at Kaponga, Taranaki, of the Rev. Father Haire, S.M. The deceased, who was a native of Ireland, came to New Zealand about twelve years ago. He officiated first at Masterton, and. then at Westpcrt, and since leaving there has been parish priest at Kaponga. Mr and Mrs Oliver Bunny, of Te Awaite, will be passengers for London by the Athenic, which sails from Wellington on Thursday. Mrs W. Cooper will be a passenger by the same steamer. Mr John Strang, who sails for England by the Athenic on Thursday, has been presented by a number of personal friends with a handsome gold watch. Major W. G. Braithwaite, T. 5.0., of the Imperial General Staff, who is to lie General Staff Officer in the Auckland District, arrived by the Corinthic yesterday. Mr J. W. A. Marchmont was appointed a Trustee of the Maori Endowment Fund at a meeting of the Anglican Diocesan Synod on Monday evening. There died at Timam on Monday, aged seventy-eight, Friedrich Cullmann, a native of Germany, one of the few survivors of Timaru's early days. He was employed as a bullock driver there in 1859, and afterwards tried the goldfields, including Gabriel's Gully.