PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10642, 24 May 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mesdames Ingram and Jones gave ai '"Mtehen tea" yesterday afternoon in |i the- Methodist Young Ladies Class , room to Miss Judd, in (honour of her apt roaching marriage. A large num- : Ban - of useful present were received. .The- following ladies rendered items. :- Beading, Miss G. Moore; song, Mrs Fdw'urds; recitation, Mrs Iveson; • scagv Miss G.'Church; reading, Miss. J;,<<i «%n; song, Miss G. Moore; soner, ' -\Jii-? E...Jones. Miss Perry spoke a few words on behalf of the Spinster" GnSdi, of which Miss Judd is a me aIjm\. A very dainty afternoon tin was ' provided by the hostesses..

T!« M.;i~stertoa Good Templars' i l'cilgs- adjourned for five miniums test ' !v«n;ng, after tho reading of ino ni.'r--1 -u v ,< -_ i-ut cf respect for t.h "* late Bro. j'T. CVHcr, who was the oldest r.iomI be: vk -the "Good TempLar> Order in ' New Zealand. A vote of .sympathy with the- relatives of the deceased wjs. carried in silence, all monitors. standing. . ■ • . i A private telegram received in WeilriTgton states that the Rev. John CfTtmp. ••'• veteran minister of the Methodist Church, is seriously ill at his •residence in Nelson. He was at one time stationed in the Wellington dis- - tri'dL

Mr John Herbert, an o?d and .muchrespected resident of the Kelso district, Otago (father of Dr. W. E, Herbert, of' Wellington) is dead, aged 85. He was born"in, Rothesay, Scotland;/ and settled in New Zealand when a „young niaw, •• , ...... . , -., ~,,.. Henaire Te Atua, a well-known and influential chief in the Porangahaii' district, died on Tuesday'.morning. The Fia.ko County Council has appointed Mr H. Evans, of the Napier Borough Engineer's .staff, engineer to the county, at a salary of £3OO per annum. Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P.. was an interested spectator fit the Dog Trials "of the Masferton Collie Club yesterday An improvement is reported in the condition of Mr P. A. Eridksen, of Carterton, mho sustained a-stroke on Monday last. Much sympathy is felt for Mr and Mrs 0. R. Fairbrother, of (Carterton, whose only daughter died; after a ■short illness, o?i Wednesday evening. During the progress O.. A. Cadwallader's funeral to Uie'.Clare-, ville Cemetei-y, Mr. R: F\"Crosbie, Masterton, : wra s ta ken suddenly UI, ■ Sand was conveyed to- local hotel;, where he recovered'sufftbieiitly to rn.it of tlris removal'tp Ms home. Ex-. amination has since'revealed that heis : suffering from appendicitis, and. a», operation witlprollnMy be performed; Sir James Bvyce-, British Ambassador at Waahingitott, .was a passenger bv the Manuka from 'Frisco as,far aa. Papeete- From there he intends to eomo on- t-o »"' Zealand by the 1*». ! K dV** Anckland next Thurstlay. i Mr E WWtelev, representing the*. Oilfields, Ltd. will be. in. XfostertoM. : to-day, and w«tl be staying at'til^Wub.Cafe.