PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10433, 26 September 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

• Lady Miller is at present a guest ot Mr and Mrs "Henry Miller at Pahiatua. . ;."; •'■.- . /-/.'" Mr S. Inder,. Postmaster at Masterton, returned last evening from a visit to' Danneyirke. / / A Sydney cable states that Lintlr rum, the billiardiat, has sailed for England. i .'. . It is--rumoured that Mr H. Hill,.lnspector of Schools, is likely to become a candidate for -tihe Napier seat at the general elections. The deat^ 1 is announced of Mrs Annie Plestedy mother, of Mr ; George Plested, of the Napier Borough staff The death occurred at Dunedin on Sunday morning, in his seventieth year, of Mr James Alexander Matthews, printer for! the Otago Daily Times for many years. Mr Matthews was the eldest son of "the late: Mr George a well-known nurseryman. He joined the staff of. tho, Otago Witness a4an - apprentice in 1854, and remained there until, some time after the Otago goldfields....lwi been discovered.J ~.:■. The death-occurred at Palmerstoa North on Sunday of the Rev. G. S. Harper, one of the oldest Methodist Ministers in New Zealand. He landed at Lyttelton in 1855, and, took op \ .work in Christchurch'. A few months later he transferred to Hokitika, being the only Wesleyan minister in the province for jtwo years. He retired from active service in 1878 on account, of his health, and was superannuated. He resided in Palmerston for eight years. '