PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10560, 16 February 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr H. H." Fraser, Secretary of the "New Zealand Athletic and Cycling Unions, will pay a visit to Masterton next Wednesday, and hopes to have an interview with tine committee of the local centre. .Mr A. H. Herbert, of Eketahuna, visited Masterton yesterday. Mr Arch. McDougall, Clerk of "Works to the Wellington Education. Board, was on an official visit to Masterton yesterday. A pleasing function took place in -the Martinborough Hotel on Wednesday afternoon', when Mr Ballantyne, ■who 'has been acting-Postmaster for the past four or five months, was presented with' a purse containing a cfcioque as a mark of esteem and regard. Mr 0. E. Brewer, in making ifoß presentation on .behalf of the subscribers,- paid a high tribute: to Mr Bsdlantyne's courteous, obliging, and tactful manner in. the discharge of his important, public duties, and washed him every success for the future. The recipient suitably responded. Mr D. G. Sustins, postmaster at Cheviot, has been appointed to Carterton. The Rev. Alfred Hodge, formerly of ( 3(1 asterton,. was inducted to the charge t of the Napier- Congregational. Church 1 "' last night.' The v freys.:J. fteed ;G|ass■oiTanel A'.-JM. -Aspland, of •Wellington,. assisted in the-ceremony^]/.'''";}'•">.'•'_;' In this week's issue of the Weekly Press appears a photograph of four generations in the Wairarapa. The •originals of the photograph are Mrs Joseph Grant, the popular postmis. . tress of Gladstone, her mother, Mrs Campbell, her daughter (Hilda), Mrs D. 0. Mac Donald, and her grandson, Master Roderick Chisholm Mao Don -; aid. Detective Hammond, at one- time stationed in Featherston, is at present doing police duty in Melbourne. f Sir William and Lady Russell were given, a hearty "welcome home" at Hastings on Wednesday night. Mr Edward L. Kirkland, a wellknown .butcher of Wellington., and a native of Dunedin, died yesterday morning. The death cf Mr David Johnstone, "Wellington, occurred .yesterday morning. The deceased gentleman was born, in Wellington in 1842, his parents at that time living on what is now the site of Te Aro House. His father, who died in Nelson about twelve years ago, at the advanced age of eighty-tow, was one of the early Government officials, and for some time was stationed at Pahautanui -as Collector of Customs. Mr Edward Reeves, one of Wellington's pioneer merchants, passed away yesterday morning at the ago of 72 years. The firm of Turnhall and Reeves had the old "Ark," on, the corner where the Bank of New Zealand premises now stand. - Mr J. F. BaiUie has l>een elected President and Mr J. J. Knight VicePresident of the .Eketahuna Chamber of Commerce. The Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott, a wellknown Presbyterian pastor of Wellington, who has many friends in Masterton, is about to take a trip to the Old Country.