PERSONAL.
Mr and Mrs J. T. Quinn are to be tendered a valedictory social in Eketahuna on Friday evening. Mr Quinn was recently appointed to the position of stationmaster at Pahiatua.
Mr A. W. Hogg, M.P., was amongst those members of Parliament who were invited to a dinner at Government House on Monday. The death occurred at Manakau yesterday, of Mr Irwin, an old settler. Deoeased had only been ill a short time. He was 77 years old. Mr J. H. Escott has been selected as the Reform Party's official candidate for the Pahiatua seat. Miss Davies, matron of the Pahiatua Hospital, is on a visit to Australia. The friends of Mr W. J. Reeve, formerly clerk of the Court at Pahiatua, but now of Whangarei, will regret to hear that he has been obliged to undergo a course of treatment at the Rotorua sanatorium. . The Emperor Francis Joseph I. of Austria attained the 81st year of his ago on Saturday. The death at Levin of Mrs J. Daniels on Friday evening was of a tragisally sudden nature. She was making a call on her sister, Mrs A. F. Wilson, and was being congratulated by some friends on the improved state of her health, she herself remarking that she had seldom felt better in her life. Just as she and friends were separating for their respective homes, Mrs Daniels swooned and fell to the floor, life being found to be extinct.
In St. Patrick's Church at Masterton yesterday morning, Mr Daniel McKenna, of Kilarney, Ireland, was married to Miss Katherine Sheene, also of Kilarney.
Mr 6. A. Townsend, a well-known butcher of Feilding, passed away yesterday morning at an hour. Mr Townsend had been laid aside for only threes weeks, but a complication of troubles proved too muoh for him. He leaves a widow and two daughters. Mr Townsend was 46 years of age. Mr John Page, one of the early residents of Auckland, died at his residence Epsom, a few days ago. The deceased, who was 96 years of age, had been 84 years in the colonies. Mr J. E. Johnson is being pressed to contest the Chalmers seat, on the ground that it contains much of the old Taieri electorate, for which he was a candidate three years ago. Mr Johnson, who will probably consent, had previously declared for Otago Central
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10401, 23 August 1911, Page 5
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393PERSONAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10401, 23 August 1911, Page 5
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