PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10509, 22 December 1911, Page 4

PERSONAL.

I Mr David Mason passed away on* .Wednesday art.Wanganui at the comparatively early age of 49 years, fie was a very well-known and highly respected public m>an, ih/aving been as-, sociated with, m<any looalboddes in the district, and was chairman oft the i Wanganui County Council. In' his younger, days Mi" Meson distinguish*;d himself a< an athlete, and was a member of the Wianganui representative football tetajn wlhidh played against. Stoddart'sEnglish team in 1888.

• lihe frienda of Mr Leonard Fishery, of Cart«r!i^,, v wil!li; regret to,hear of,, ilhe death of his wife, wHncih tbok place ' at tihe M&sterton Hospital yesterday ' ' morning, after a somowihait prolonged illness following confinement. The body will be taken, to Carterton, and tilie interment will take place ajt Clare- ; valle cemetery tikis afternoon. A' Greymoiutfli, telegram says:—Sir; Arthur.and Lady Guinness leave over-,, tojid for Oiiristdhuroh to-morrow tospend ti holiday tihere. They will then proceed to Wellington,' where Sir Arthur will introduce a depuffeation from Reefton with referenoe to an application for-a 1 subsidy towards sinking a ,-i deep prospecting aihaft ait Boatmata's,. Reefton,.

Mrs Elizabeth Faulkner, a resident of the Tauranga district for 57, years, died on'Sundlay at the ageof 91.

Another very old Hastings resident, in the person of Mr William Jtameis, Scullin., passed away at 'has residence, Norton road, on Tuesday. The late Mr Sculm, who is. a, native, of t'heNortlh of Irellatod. landed'in Hawke's Bay over 30 years ago. Mr R. C. .Bruce, who recently un-derwent-a severe operlaffcion in, Nurse Linton's private hospital. in Palmers-, ton North, has returned to Hunter?oi>lle completely cured.

Messrs D/Buick W- C. Buchanan, M.P.'s, were among the visitorsto the Mastertoni races yesterday. > Dr. Kennedy, rector of St. Patrick'sColllege, Wellington, will be the guest of the Very Jiev. Dean McKenna, ofMasterton, daring the Christmas, holidays.

A wodding of great interest to Bailante settlers was celebrated at Mr E. S. HoJciiawiay's residence oft Monday, when the eldest daughter of that gentleman', Miss Constance Eda Mary Holdaway, was married to Mr George Alexander Watt, of Fox ton. The? bride's parents are some of th» earliest settlers in this district, they having gone out there when the land was covered with bush —roadless and bridgeless—so naturally ooaaiderabjo interest was takevi in the event, and many Mends testified to tiheir kindly feeling in a tangible way, so that the young lady was the recipient of a large number of useful and, valuable presents. The invitations had been limi ted to relatives only, but there was such a number of these that aibout forty guests attended, matay having com*) long distances in spite of the wretched weaither. The bride looked very nice in a pretty navy blue travelling custu/me with hat to match, decorated witli forget-me-nots a"nd (for tlie occasion) orange blossoms. She was attended by four sweet- little bridesimiaids, three small sisters and little Pearl Cress weld, a cousin, all dressed iu white with blue ribbons. The Rev. W. H. Speer officiated, atnd the bridk was giveta, away by her father.