PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10550, 5 February 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL

Arclbbishop aiid Mrs Wright, of Sydney, are "passengers by the Ulimaroa, wliicE; arriyes at-.Wellington on •Wednesday/ They intend • spending a, month's holiday iii New Zealand.

A cable from- Capetown states, that Majoi-General Sir Henry Jenner Scobell has died from enteric fever. Major-Oeneral ScobelPhad been i n command of the forces in Gape' Colony since 1909.

.Mr' James Craig, "one of the oldest business men, of Oamaru, died on Thursday, last at the age of seven.tyfour. years. ' '

Mrs' Ruth Bacon, wife of Mr Thomas Bacon, ditkl in the Pahia'tua Hospital on Saturday at the age of fortytwo years."/ Tllie deceased lady was well-known in.Masterton. ;

Mr John B." Jack, of Wangaiuii, has'been appointed a Judge of tlie Native Land Court. " ~ The death occurred -last week of another pioneer of the Taranaki district m the person of Mr Alfred .Marsh. Tho deceased, who was eightv years of a«p arrived in.Taranaki in 1842.' Ho -was a bugler in the militia during the Maori War. Mrs M Moynihan, a well-lmowit resident of Wellington;, and formerly of the West Coast, died on Friday air an advanced age. A Press Association, message fron* Picton records the sudden death on bnturday .morning of Mr Charles J) istuart, a well-known draper of that town. Coromaudel',3 oldest resident, Mr J Barrett, died on Sunday morning He T™ M "- n , cl iester. England, 'anJ oaime to the Colony with his parent*, m the slnp Sir George Seymour, reaching Auckland in Xovember, 1847.