PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10443, 7 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

; Dr. Spencer F..Beardl is at present ' a visitor to Masterton. The Rev. A. T. Thompson, 8.A.,. 8.D., will leave Masterton this morning •for -Wellington, to attend the sittings of the Presbytery. ' Mr A. H. Herbert, one of the Opposition candidates for Masterton, in-' • tends taking up his residence in Masterton. ,' He lias, secured.» lease of Valder Villa, 52 Bentley Street, Masterton, and enters into possession on Tuesday next. Mr A. Withy, the single-taxer; who had intended offering himself for election in Waitemata, has . withdrawnfrom tlie contest aaia will stand for Auckland East against Mr A. M. ..Myers/. - ; A; Press Association telegram fromHawera; states tliiat the Rev;- P. B. Fraser, M.'A., has been nominated by the Taranaki presbytery, as jnodera-r----tor of the General Assembly. Mr and Mrs W. Hal'liday and Miss Halliday, of Pahiatua, who have been on a visit to the Old Country, left London for Wellington by the New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer Reanuera on Saturday last. 'Mr John Walker, of Auckland, whose death is reported by the Herald, was through the South African War with the Fourth Contingent, and was made a sergeant on the field, his promotion to this rank having been madeat the same engagement as that in\ which Sergeant Wylie was The Rev. George Tregear, who is conducting a No-License campaign in the Waiiwapa electorate, was on a' visit to Masterton yesterday. Mr Tregear, who belongs to Westralia, where he is President of the NoLicense movement, proceeds to theSouth Inland at the end of next week. Another of the old pioneers of New Zealand passed away on Monday last, when Mr R. T. Button, wlip had attained the good old age of 83, died, at his residence, Cooper's Creek, near Geraldine. Born in Norfolk,' he entered the service of the Norwich Union Fire' Office, but in 1850 he left the Old Country where he engaged in farming pursuits', untit 1859, when 'he went to Canterbury, first settling in Kaiapoi.