PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10409, 1 September 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr A. Dickens, of Pongaroa, has announced his intention of, .contesting a seat qn the Akitio County Council. Mr A. McKay, of Ngaturi, FortyMile Bush, has been compelled to enter* a private hospital to undergo an operation for appendicitis. . Mr H- Okej[, M.P., who returned to New Plymouth last week-end, has since been confined to his room with a severe attack of influenza.

Mr W. D. S. Mac Donald, M.P., ■who was taken ill 'in Wellington on Wednesday, was yesterd-iy reported to be much better, and it did not expected that an operation wil be necessary. ;.

Mr. C. W. Tanner, who announced his candidature for the Wairarapa seat in the Government interset, and has latterly been addressing meetings, is a solicitor in practise in Wellingifcon.'* He has, or had, a small' farm vA Cross' Creek.

Mr David Jones, the organiser of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, will l)e in the Wairarapa.district from Sep- ; te.mbOT.l3th to the 2&rd. He will give Ihis opening address in Masterton on *hel3tk.

Mr W. D. Taylor, of Pahiatua, has "been appointed to the position of fat stock drafter for the Wellington Far-. ■mere'' Meat Company in the. North Wairarapadistrict. His headquarters will be at Pahiatua. :

Mr S." W. Rutherford,i!of Pareora, ; South Canterbury, has been appointed head stockman at the Waingawa'works • of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company. Mr Rutherford has held a similar position at the Pareora works for niany years.

The many friends of Mr and Mrs Joseph Rear don, of Masterton, will regret to learn of the death of their third daughter, Miss Annie Reardon, which occurred on Wednesday at midnight. The deceased, who had 'been suffering for some time past, was ex- ' ceedingly popular among her frieiicts, and her demise will be keenly felt by 'those who knew her. The bereaved parents < will have the sympathy of a large circle of friends. The funeral will leave the residence. 52 Perry Street, at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon 'lor the Masterton cemetery. The death is reported from Dunedin of Mr Robert Watt Brown, another of the pioneers of 1848. Mr Brown arrived with his parents in the ship Bernicia in December, 1848.. They remained in Dunedin [-i- until the year v they in the East "Taieri district. • A quiet .wedding was celebrated in 'Carterton on Wednesday, when Miss Adelaide Annie Hudson, second daughter of Mr George Hudson,, of Melbourne, was married to Mr Dean "Bankin Wallis. fifth son of Mr A. "R. Wallis, of that town. The bride ' daintily attired in a pretty, white embroidered muslin dress, with a becoming hat to match, and was (attended by Miss Margaret Wallis as brides"miaid, who was robed in blue radianta,, trimmed with glace silk, tvith transparent yoke and sleeves, black and / white 'hat to match. Mr Edward Wallis was best man. On Monday last, at St. Paul's "Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, the wedding took place of Miss JSdith Ford, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs F. ~Ford, of the Terrace, Wellington, to "Mr Alexander. Munro, son of Mr A. W. Munro, late of Masterton and Red--Tern.' The bride was given away by her ilather, and was attended by Miss Dorothy Jones, of the Lower Hutt, as bridesmaid. Mr Lawrence, of Ohrist- ' church, was best man.