PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10513, 30 December 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mrs Archer and family left Masterton yesterday on a six weeks' holiday visit to Napier. The death is announced of Captain Henry H. Torlesse, superintendent * the Sheerne6s Dockyard, and a son of the late Rev. Henry Torlesse, Ohristchurch. ___^ Colonel Birkenshaw, of the Salvation Army, left Wellington yesterday for Sydney. Mrs Handyside and Miss " '—klo have arrived in Auckland after a lo»£ stay in England, and will remain there for a week. Mr Handyside has taken a furnished house in Napier for a year. The dearth is announced at Cambridge fWa ikato) of Mr Edwin Cox. L.D.5.R.0.5., End., and president of itilie. New Zealand Anti-Vaccination league. He. was born at Tipton, Staffordshire,"England, on November'".i 8, in the 'last vear of the George IV,, 1829:.:.. .: .\.::.:: '. . ~.;.■;• The Dunedin Star.states ; that. Mr Haiinay,". stationma-s ter at-, tyttelton < & Jnetuang, and Mr E. Dobbie, of Invercargill, is being irornoted to the vacancy, wiliile Mr Bean, chief clerk at Lyttelton, takes chargr at Tnvercargill.

Mr Blacke. of Waverley, died at the Patea Hospital' on Tuesday morning. He had been in indifferent health for some time past, and had resigned the (managership of the Bank of Australasia at Waverley, and intended entering business on has own account. A ■ severe cofd, upon which pneumonia' rapidly supervened, necessitated; Jus' removal to the hospital. :" '" " A' cable message from Sydney states that Mr J. H. Watkin, son of the Rev. James Watkin, one of New Zealand's pioneer Methodist mrissionardes, 's dead.

At the Holy Trinity Church n Gisbome on Sunday last, Miss tv,» Hooper, formerly of Masterton,- -yho is leaving the district, was the recipient of- a valuable present from the choir.

Sir James Oaroll. who. has been attending a Native gathering in 're Raaigitiki district, returned to WePington on Thursday evening. A Timavu telegrani st«ates tfliat the Ven. Archdeacon Harper left for Dunedin yesterday, en route for England. A large mimbeivof his late parishioners, and others, farewelkd him at the station.

The late Mr David Wilson, who die I at Ashburton on Christmas Eve at 'jhe advanced nge of 85, and who was a very, old colonist, Raving arrived in ihe Dominion in the barque Victory in •1857, ia.nd.settled in the Ashburton district- 38 years l«*ft an estate which, it is expected, will be sworn at jtisb under £BO,OOO. The religious and charitable bequests total .£3300. and of thus all "but £2OO is left to -Jw funds -and institutions in connection with the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. The £3IOO is divided among fourteen objectr, the biggest amount being £4OO each to the Aged and Infirm Ministers' fund and to assist weak congregations in settling charges, also £350 each to the Km* College Endowment Fund, to church extension and to assisting present ■home. missionary'stations, while £230 is left towards scholarships for divinity students, and £2OO each town- is the foreign missions and the Widows and Orphans funds. —Press As«o----1 eiation.

A Press Association message states •that Mr Walter Atkin, proprietor of t'he Westport News, died at Westport on Thursday evening after an illness extending over six months. The deceased was a native of Cork, Ireland. He came to Melbourne in 1869, and ■subsequently over to New Zealand, working on the West Coast Times at Hokitika. Later, with others, he established thy defunct Grey Valley Times, and subsequently worked in Reefton as manager of the Tnangahua Herald. He afterwards took over thy Lyell Times, which he conducted until 1898. and tihen purchased the Westport Times. He was twice married. His second wife predeceased hiim by five weeks. He leaves by the first mar riage a grown-up family of two sons and three daughters.