PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10400, 22 August 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr J. A. Young (Mayor of Hamilton) is mentioned as a probable candidate for the Waikato seat, though he has made no declaration.

Mr A. J. Joblin, of Taihape, announces himself as a candidate for the Rangitikei seat at the forthcoming election.

News has been received in Gisborne of the death in London of Mrs Edmund Chrisp, an old identity of T\overty Bay.

Sir James Carroll, Acting-Prime Minister, celebrated his fifty-fourth birthday yesterday. He was entertained at a complimentary social. The Rev. T. Keith Ewen, pastor of Berhampore Baptist Church, Wellington, has accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of the Baptist Church of Gisborne.

The friends of Mr John McMaster, of the Lower Valley, will regret to hear that he has been taken to a private hospital in Wellington to undergo an operation. The death was announced, by cable received last night, of the Rev. James Guinness Rodgers, D.D., a well-know a Congregatioralist. The deceased was born in Enniskillen in 1822, and was Chairman of tho Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1874. He was minister of the Claphim Congregational Church from 1865 till 1900.

Mr A. W. 0. Da vies.' twice chess champion of New Zealand, and a prize-winner at each of the last seven championship congresses, has decided to settle in Queensland. Mr P. C. Webb, the chosen Labour candidate for the Grey seat, is a Greymouth identity,"a young man, a native of Victoria, resident in New ZeaT and 10 or 12 years. He is well known among: the workers at Denniston, Blackball, and Runanga, has gained a much wider I'emite of late as president of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, and is an ardent Socialist. The death took place at New Plymouth on Sum day of Mrs Capel, a resident of these parts for practically the whole of her life. She had been ailing for but a short time. She leaves five daughters—Mrs (Dr.) Fookes, Mrs L. A. Nolan, Mrs Hugh Good, and the two Misses Capel, who wall have the sincere sympathy of a large circle of friends in their somewhat sudden bereavement. The death is announced by cable from New York of Myrtle Read McCullough, the well-known American authoress. She took an over dose of sleeping powder and left a letter reflecting on her husband's treatment of her, and leaving a legacy to a faithful servant. The death is announced of Mr Alex Guthrie, of Feilding, at the age of 66 years. Deceased arrived in New Zealand in 1874 and was greatly esteemed. He is survived by a widow, four sons and three daughters. He was a member of the Feilding band and two of his sons, Messrs Albert and Alex. Guthrie, played with the Wanganui band at Ballarat when it won the championship.