PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10484, 22 November 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Enquiries made yesterday showed tuiat Mr A. W. Hogg was much improved in health. "There is no-thing wrong witih him now," said Mrs Hogg, "excepting that his foot gives him trouble." The Marlborough. Press of Friday lust had the following:—Mr J. Carter, of Picton, left by the Pateena last evening, en route for Masterton, where ho has secured an appointment in the cooling chamber of the Waingawa freezing works. At a meeting of the Featherston Literary Institute Committee, held on Saturday, Mrs Durie was appointed Librarian, vice Mr C. J. Kent-John-ston, resigned. On Saturday night the staff of Toogood's Estate presented Master Horry Aichison, who leaves for Canttda tJiis week, with a travelling trunk, thus showing the esteem in which lie was held by his comrades. Mr Pihillip Newbury, the cultured tenor singer, whose visit to New Zealand years ago, with the NowburySpada Concert Party, will be well remembered by concert-goers, will arrive in New Zeakmd on November 27th, and will in all probability remain in the Dominion for two or three months.

Mr James Galvin, of Hamna, has returned from an extended visit to Australia. The trip was undertaken on account of Mr Galvin's -health, and he has benefited by the change. His Worship the Mayor moved at last night' s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council"That this Council sympathises with Or. and Mrs Prentice in their receiut sad bereavement in, the loss of their son, and that this Council's condolences be conveyed to Or. and Mrs Prentioe." The motion was seconded by Cr. Ewingtoh, and carried, the Councillors standing. The death is announced by cable from London of Mr T. Jones, at one time ,a • well-known, Australian racehorse owner. Mr W. F. Massey, Leader of the Opposition, delivers an address in Palmerston North this evening. The many friends of Mr J. R. Gibbons, chief reporter of the Evening Post, will be pleased to hear that he is recovering from -the severe illness from which he has been suffering. Mr David Ore we, ex-Mayor of Pahiatua, with Mrs Crewe, who have been on an extended visit to the Old Country, are now on their return to the Dominion. The London Standard's Paris cor- , respondent rejjprts that Sarah Bernhardt, the well-known French actress, who is 'sixty-six years of age, will shortly be married to Mr Lou Tellenger, a, Flemish actor, aged 26 years.