PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10493, 2 December 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Tlie Hon. A. T. Ngata, has been reelected unopposed for the r.astero Maori Electorate. Professor Hammond, of Columbus University, Ohio, who is vasrtimg New Zealand to investigate the workrng of the labour laws, is at present hi the South. Island. 'Mr J. Archer, Town. Clerk of Masterton, nas been confined to his house for some days with a sharp attack of lnmbago. ' Brigadier Albktoi:. who is in command of the Salvation Army hi- the Southern Province of New Zealand, has received a- cable messtge from Melbourne, informing Mm tJhat he is to finish. Ihis service in. New Zealand, ■and is to leave sthe Dominion on January 18th, 1912. Beyond this the message does not indicate anything furtlher, but Brigadier Albuston assumes that lie will be transferred to Australia. Ho understands that Colonel Birkenshaw, who is in command of the Northern Province, has also received cable advice similarly ta that which he himself received. A London cable records the death of Sir William Grantham, Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice.

Major T. W. M'Donald, of tihe New Zealand Staff Corps, left, Wellington by tlie Main Trunk express yesterday morning for Auckland, en route for Sydney, where he will join his wife and family lxrfore sailing for England -to be attached to the Regular Forces tor training.

A very pretty wedding was solemnised at the Catholic Chnrcli, Greytown, on Wednesday, when Florrie. eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank "Wood, old and respected residents of that town, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Mr Alfred Corsford, ,son of Mr James Corst'orl.- a wellknown resident of Maugatainoka. Tlie .nuptial knot was tied by the Rev. Father Bowe, of Carterton, and the ceremony was witnessed -by a large ci rcle of friends.