PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1037, 18 August 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr A. W. Hogg, M.P., who has been indisposed for several days past, was granted six days' letave of absenoe-from hi® Parliamentary duties, but was able to take his place in the House yesterday. Mr R. B. Ross, M.P., has been granted three days' leave of absence owing to illness in .his family. I The marriage of Miss Clara Price, , the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs W. i Price, of Ormondville, took place at 1 the residence of the bride's parents on Wednesday afternoon, the bridegroom . being Mr Douglas Gordon Stuart Miaodonald, of Gisborne, son of Mr W. D. S. Maodonald, M.P. for the Bay of Plenty. There were many friends present to witness the ceremony which was performed by the Rev. J. McCaw, of the Lower Hutt. Mr Byron Brown, who intends contesting the Ota.ki seat at the coming election, is retiring from store-keep-ing to take up stock-dealing. A Press Association message states that Mr McKerron has been elected Chairman of the Otago Education Board. I The death is announced by cable of j the Bishop of' Salisbury. Mr R. Eyre, Collector of Customs at Blenheim, has been prompted to the charge of the Customs Department at. Westport. He mil be succeeded by Mr HarrOp, of Napier. Mr P. O'Dea, of Hawera, has informed the Taranaki News that the report that he'will stand down in fav;"ot(r of the Hon. T. Mackenzie for the Patea electorate is incorrect. A Dunedin Press Association telegram records t!he death of Mr Julius Hyman, an old Dunedin resident, who was for many years president of the Jewish congregation there. The death is announced at Wanganui last week of Mr Edward Brady, youngest son of the late Mr John Brady. Mr Brady was a former student of St. College, and was well-known in Wellington. Mr Peter Eadie, of the staff of the New Zealand Farmer, is at present oh a visit to Masterton. The remains of the late Mr J. H. La Roche were interred in tire Masterton ' cemetery yesterday afternoon. The funeral cortege was large and reprerentative, and/testified to the high respect in which the deceased townsman was held. The friends of Mrs Wintringham, senr., will regret to hear that she is lying somewhat seriously ill at Masterton.