PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10444, 9 October 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr R. V. -Bollard,-a Reform candidate, has announced his candidature for the Raglan seat. Mr J. A. Young, Mayor of Hamilton, has announced his intention".'of son/testing the *Waikato seat as a s Democratic Liberal. • A London cable, received last night,, announced the death of Sir Charles Lames Wittewronger, the well-known sculptor. x Mr Robert Speight, assistant curator for 1 the Canterbury Museum, las been offered the position as geologist to Mawspn's expedition. He will probably have, to decline. \&r T. Scot%-Smith, until lately* a Stipendiary Magistrate, and „at one time practising as a solititorm.'Eke-r ' tahuna, hap commenced the practice of his profession in Auckland.', • Tho Rev. Gibson-Smith; of WeDing- . ton, conducted the services in Knox Church, Masterton, yesterday. . • The youngest daughter of Mr Joseph J. Smith, formerly a newspaper I proprietor in Master-ton, died it lington lasfcweek of twentyone years. •Mr James McGregor, of Master-ton, jnas been delivering <*No-License acV ' dresses in the Rangitikei, Waikato, Pahiatua and other.districts.; He [has met "with a Warm reception Wherever he lias spoken. Considering his age, displays a .vigor of speech on the platform vrnioh"» eimply The death is announced, by; caibje from Melbourne of Major-General Hoad, Chief ,pf the CommonTvealtn'"military forces, and ex-Inspector General. , The deceased recently suffered a; nervous' break-down, and obtained leave. Major-General Hoad rose from the ranks. " ' '.' ' ;

The death is announced' by cable of i.. the' Dowager Countess of" SeafieltU The.deceased lady resided for a con.fciderable time in the! Oamaru district. She was a relative of, the :'"Uat»! (Mr Richard Mant, known > for years m Masterton aa the "Whareama poWt." Mr J. C. MoKillop has? .been asked to contest the Te Whiti riding seat on the Mastertdn County Council, and will probably consent to nomination in the event of Mr Morris not offering himself for^re-eleotion. The death is reported from Kumara of Mr. Henry George Haymes, one of the pioneers of the West Coast Goldfields. Mr. Haymes, who was born in Devonshire* England, seventyHJight years ago, went to Australia when a ' young man. He followed several gold rushes in Victoria, afterwards coming to New Zeaand. He,landed in Otago, and was amongst the first lot of. men on: the Gabriel's Gully gold.field.. Prom there he journeyed on foot to Hokitika, the trip occupying a ' " fortnight,.

The death occurred at Wellington on Saturday morning last, after a dhort attack of pneumonia, of Mr Fred. W." Hales. The deceased,'who was. in flris fifty-fifth year, was '-well known and highly respected in the Wairarapa. For some years he was in partnership in business in. Masterton with Mr William Sellar. 'Subsequently he (became proprietor of the Flati Point station, on the East Coast, selling out a few years back to Mr C. A. Cameron, of Masterton. Since leaving Flat' Point, .the late Mr Haleshad resided in Wellington, where he made many friends. He leaves three sisters —Mrs C. F. Vallance (of Kahumingij Masterton), Mrs T. Hutchison' (of Oaniaru), and Mrs West (of. WelHhgton)v. -The -funeral takes place in Wellington to-day, and will be *of a; private character:' _ . , , '""'