PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10614, 22 April 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Farquhar Gray, who hasbc'-n on si visit to Australia, returned to Maiterton ou Saturday. Mr .1. G. Wilson, President of the New Zealand Farmers' Union i* a gue ; yt of Mr W. C Buchanan:, M.P.,. while' in the' district. Mr; Miller, Chief Postmaster of Wellington, paid an official visit to Electahuna and other parts of tho Forty-. Mill! Bush last week. Mr George Coward, aged Bf?,' died at his home at .Blenheim on Saturday. Ho was a very old identity, iiavinj? been sixty-five years in the Dominion. Mr and Mrs Moss, of Mastorton, will : celebrate their golden wedding to-mor-row. A large gathering of relatives .will be present "to do honour to the .aged couple. Mr George Mefl attic was on Saturday elected an honorary life director of. tho Wairarapa Caledonian Society. Mr McHattie is an, ex-Presidont of the Society, and has for a number of yea.rs been, one of its most prominent i rectors. Tho friends of Mr It. J. Mclvcr, of. will regret to hear that; ho is >afc present lying seriously ill at' his home. The weekly list of visitors at' the"Marquis of Normaubv Hotel, Carterton, includes:—From Wellington : Messrs Blyth, Fox, Ford, Fuller, Gibbs, Giluoii, Guthrie, Hal],Kei«h;u> r King, Leathani, Nicoll, Read, Ccarr ? Scott, Spier, Teagle, Troup, Tuigey, Thorn pr.p"n. Wood. Wangar.ui: Mr Mitchison. Palmerston North: Oiarkson, Dickson and Ford. Nelson : Messrs Haldaro >and Robertson. ; Christchurch: Mr Twomey. Tnpunipuru: Mr Buchanan, M.P. Master-, ton: Mr Coffey. Carrington: Mr I Mathcson. Longbush: Mr Bubb.

Mrs A. Scrhngcour, of tht\ Prince of Wales Hotel, Masterton, met with a serious accident on Saturday evening. Airs Pcrimgeour was coming down the '■fair, leading to the- kitchen, when '•ho stumbled'and fell f'nin the top to the hottom. The stairs were )-ather bLvp, and the fall was of a very nasty nature, and Mrs. -Scrimgeour had her left wrist broken, and received several severe bruises about the. body, while her faeo vfl.s also' j hadly bruised. 3)r: Prior was called I in, and r.ller attending the imtortunate lady, stated that nothing serious need bo anticipated. Mrs Scrimgeour nt latest is progressing as satisfactorily as can l>o expected. Mr John Piior, an old identity of Ekelalinna, died in, the iMasterton Hof-pital vesterdav morning, at the age of 89. \ Mr Xermai! Fly, of JVlasterlon. who has .SLcuied a position in tlio office of the \e\v Zealand Express Company at Wellington, It It for the Empire City on Satin day morning. Prior to his departure, Mr Fly wa<, presented with, a gold-mounted cigarette holder and cigarette ca<e by the employees of Fly and Young.