PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10580, 11 March 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

The death is announced from Palmerson North, at the age of eighty 'yeans, of Mr Joseph Milvcrton, who was the .founder of tho A. and P. Association.

Mr David Crewe has re-commenced business in Piahiatua as an auctioneer.

Mr T. Raipley, organiser of the Liberal Federation, was a visitor to Masterton on Saturday.

Mr Ernest Short, of Fcilding, is to bo elected a life member of the Masterton A. and P. Association.

Mr Q. de Baylis, Instructor in Experiments to the Agricultural Department, is to be invited to be present at a meeting of "the Agricultural Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday next.

Mr W. Porter, manager-of tho Wail>;i.\va gasworks, is at present, with Mrs Porter, on a visit to friends in Masterton..

To-day Sir Joseph Ward will perform the ceremony of turning the first sod of the Waihi-Tauranga railway.

•Mr W. H. Hawkins, who lias been a resident of the Pahiatua district for the past eighteen years, has decided to relinquish business there, and go farming in tho vicinity of New Plymouth. He leayes Pahiatua in about a fortnight s time.

OMr George Wilson, of the firm of Aitken and Wilson, of Wellington, has been on a visit to Masterton. He was tho guest of Mr Edwin Feist.

Mr F. Cassin, of Hastings, is at present on a visit to Eketaihuna.

Private L. Loveday, tlie winner of the rifle championship, is only twentyone years of age. He is a son of Mr George Loveday, who has shot, brilliantly at the Association meetings since 1896.

Mr James Knowles, a Port Ahuriri (Napier) resident, has died, at the age of seventy-six years. He had been for thirty two-years in the employ ox tho Napier Harbour Board.

The death occurred on Friday last, of Mr George Nicolson, of Emersoa Street, Napier, at the age of fifty-five years.

Mr Davey, of Masterton, has been elected District President of the Druid Lodge. His installation will take place at Eketahuna in April.

A QhristGhurch telegram announces the death of, Mr Christopher , . .Hudson Moreland, who has been'headmaster of :<3hriai?s: College since 1904. The late Mr who'wastakeli'suddenly ill on Friday, was a scholar of Linedln College,-Oxford, and for atnne >vas assistant master at the King Edward VII School, Norwich.

Mr and Mrs Caseby are about to leave Pleckville to take up a farm in the Kawhia district.

Mr and Mrs J. Hunter, of Hukanui, have sustained a bereavement in the death of their little daughter, who succumbed to ah attack of pneumonia.

Mr L. C. Green, formerly of. the staff of the Paihiatua and Pongaroa brandies of tho Bank of New Zealand, has left Wellington for tho Old Country.

Tlho Rev. W. H. Speer, of Pahiatun, lias been set down for Northern Wairoa.at the second reading of stations at the Methodist Conference, and the ■ Rev.-. W. Scott, of Kaponga, for Pahiatua. The tiliird and final reading will decide the appointment. Mr and Mi's Thomas Udy, of Waikanae, in celebration of their golden wedding, were entertained by" Mrs Mundy and Mr Olem Udy in the Dalefiekl Hall on Thursday last under the most auspicious circumstances, there being most of the members of the family and about 200 friends. Mrs Udy is the eldest daughter of the late ,Mr linos. liigley, of Oreytown, and was born in Tutbury, and came to New Zealand in 1856. Mr T. Udy is the fourth-son. of the late- -Mr Hart Udy, also of Greytown, who was at one time Mayor of that town. He was born in Petone on May 7, 1840.' He is said to be the first white child born ■in New Zealand. They were married at Matarawa bv the Rev. W. Ronaldson, on March 7th, 1862.

A very,-'pretty wedding was quietly celebrated in the Napier. Cathedral, on Thursday last, when. - Miss P.-Kay, of Ormond, Gisborne, and formerly of Masterton, was married-to.-Mr W. H. Robieson, of "Clevelaaids,'' Wairar-' apa. The ..bride, who was given away by her -brother, Mr Vincent Kay, won; a very pretty gown of ivory crepe do chine veiling duchesse satin, and an embroidered tulle veil caught in with a spray of orange blossoms. She carried a sheaf of white asters and bouvardias, and an ivory-bound prayer book.' Her bridesmaid was Miss Witime Kay, a younger sister, who wore I a frock of pale rose-coloured voile over satin charmeuse of the same shade, and a large black hat trimmed with heliotrope and pink shaded roses. She carried a bouquet of pink bouvardias and heliotrope michaelmas daisies. Mr Norman Robieson was best man. The only guests at the ceremony were the immediate relatives of the bride and bridegroom. Mrs Kay, the bride's, mother, wore a tailored costume of dark royal blue cloth, and a toque of the same shade in silk crinoline, straw, ornamented with an aigrette of tiny heliotrope roses. Mrs P. C. Freeth, sister of the 'bridegroom, wore a reseda green cloth costume, braided and trimmed with oriental embroidery, and a Itagd hat with green ostrich plumes. Miss Robieson, another sister of the bridegroom, was in a gown of black and whitcvoil, trimmed with insertion threaded with blade silk ribbon, and having wide black silk rovers. A toque of heliotrope crinoline straw, bordered with tiny crinoline reliotrope roses, and a long heliotrope chiffon scarf completed her costume.