PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10495, 5 December 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr H. Mayo, the new conductor :of the Masterton Municipal Brass Band, will arrive !by the mid-day train today, and will be officially welcomed by the members of the band at Rankin's tea rooms this evening, at 8 o'clockThe many friends of Mrs F. .1). Holds Worth, wife of the-, chief .postmaster of Auckland, will hear with regret of her. .death, which occurred ,0U- v Wednesday at her residence, 'Remuera. . . <

Mr and Mrs David Crewe, who have | been On a trip to. the Old Country, , have returned to Pahiatua. , I

A< London cable states that the Marquis of Waterford, aged thirty, six, has been found drowned in the River Clodagh, adjoining his. residence at Curraghmore, County Galway.

A Rotoxua telegram states that the well-known, ■ guide, "Sophia/' died at Whakarewarewa yesterday morning. She was the daughter of a British officer named Grey, her mother being of the'' Ngatiruanui Tribe, of Taranaki.

Sir James Carroll arrived at Wellington last night, and proceeded to the South. He speaks at Ashburtou to-night. > 1 ' The Stratford Post announces t]jo of Mr William Noble. : Mr Noble, 1 who .was in his eighty-eighth year, had resided in Stratford for over thirty years, and at the time of his death was on a visit to his married daughter He was an old army man, having served in the 28th ; Regiment (Royal Enniskillep.s), and 011 coming to Australia as a young man he saw much of the early life on the gold diggings, taking part in the Bendigo and Ballarat rushes. He was also at the famous Gabriel's Gully, and in 1865 was mining on the West Coast goldficlds. The deat'i occurred at Tnvdrcargill last week, at the age of eighty-five years, of Mr Robert Millar, one of the 'earliest settlers of Southland.