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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10662, 18 June 1912, Page 5

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liady Stout and Miss Stout have passages to return to New Zealand in October. Mr W. T. Mansfield, late borough . .engineer of Wanganui, was tendered a i';i /e-well 1 social the Foresters' Hal] nm Friday night. There was a large attendance of councillors and citizens, and the function was of a most enthusiastic nature. The .Whole of the Councillors present spake iri eulogistic iterms of the work of Mrt.Mansfield during his stay in Wanganui, and, '? .wished him every prosperity in the •. future. An, enjoyable gathering was " terminated by the singing of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." Mr "Jack" Harris, a well-known pedestrian in the 'seventies, and who field the 10-mile championship of Australasia, died at Greymouth on Friday night, after a short illness, aged sixty-eight. Friends of the Rev. H. S. Woollieombe, who visited Masterton about two years ago on hehalf of the Church -af England Men's Society, will be glad to hoar that, although his doctor has forbidden him to work again after his breakdown in India, the last report of * his health is distinctly. encouraging, * ! says a letter from Home. The Prime Minister leaves Auckland for Wellington to-morrow. • tMr F. M. B. Fisher, M.P., has left "Wellington for t the North, to reply to ' the speeches made bv the Prime Minister, and the Hon. G. W. Russell. , Mr John Murray,, one of the early and sturdy pioneers of the West Goast, died at the Grey River Hosratal last week, aged'9o years. Deceased was a native of Waterford, Ireland, and "was well-known on the Coast. Mr J. W. Thurston, an old settler of -the Taranaki district, died at l'., WaverJey last week at the age of 66 k years.