PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10675, 3 July 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr F. Cassin, managing director of the Mangaone ■O.flnVxlfp, Ltd., is at present on a visit to Masterton. Mr and Mrs T. A. Radcliffe, of Masterton, leave for the Old Country as the end of the present month.

.Mr P."Halley, Conciliation Commis-sioner,-will be in Masterton to-day on official business.

The death is announced *of Mr Humphrey Berkeley, a barrister wellknown in the Fiji Islands Group. Mr-A'. P./ Feikling has beefn appointed caretaker and- messenger to the new Supreme.Court building in Masterton.

The death is announced by cable of Mr Walter McLaren, Liberal .member .for the Crewe Division of Cheshire in the House of Commons. The death occurred at Christchurch yesterday of Mr James Triggs, father of Mr J. R. Triggs, Conciliation Commissioner, at the age of eighty-seven years. "

Nurse Gate, who has taken up the duties of District Nurse under the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, leaves for Pahiatua on Thursday. Mr W. C. Buchanan. M.P., has been nominated for re-election to the Wellington Education Board by nineteen Wairarapa Committees, and Mr C. C. Jackson by fourteen Committees. Mr F. Williams, representative of Billy Kersand's Minstrels, arrived in Masterton last night to make arrangements for the appearance of the Company here on Monday next.

Another of New Zealand's veterans has answered to the last call. Mr Lewis Lyons Levy died at his residence in Ponsonby. Auckland, on Sunday, at the age of 74 years. He arrived here from Tasmania in March, 1848. and saw active service during the Maori war with the Wanganui Cavalry, in which troop lie was cornet. ' Visitors at the Club Hotel. Mp«terton, include Mr and Mrs Orbell. Messrs Mackav (Melbourne), Hendrie (Asbburton) ,J. Ward, Arthya. Fletciliev. van Ftavcrcn. Brasley. Hollow, Beavis, Gibson. Nevins, Siimmorbayes, Gibb, Shrimpton. Murrell (Wellington), Johansen (Napier), Elgar (Featherston). Mr Burden, of Feildfng, lias been transferred to the Featherston Post. Office.

Mr Ben. Morris has been elected chairman of the Eketabuna branch of the Farmers' Union.

At the annual meeting of tho Ma?;terton Fire Brigade, Branchnivm Moore was awarded the honorary members' prize. Brigade Deputy Pickering will represent the Masterton Fire Brigade 'it the meeting of the Masterton Beautifying Society on Friday evening.

A cable from Perth records tho death of Mr F. H. Piesse, a former Minister of Railways.