PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10681, 30 July 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

"Mr H. A. Nevins is representing the Tinni branch of the Farmers'; Union 'at the Dominion : Conference which «pens in Wellington to-day. _, "We have it on the most reliable authority that the High Commissionr- \ <:rship has been offered to the.Hon. T. ■ Mackenzie,'and that he intends!'to acit."—Qamaru Mail. Commander E. R. G. R. Evans and Mr F. R. H. Drake, R.N., will shortly leave England. t« rejoin the Antarctic .ship Terra Nova. A London cable states that Dnke Da'Lorge, a well-known French nobleman, while visiting Mr John Arthur,: James, M.V., at Grafton Street,, fell <h -?. a lift well and was killed. Mr W. E. Bidwiil has been nominated for the position of President of the Wairarapa Racing Club rendered vacant by the death of Mr H. S. Wardcll. the vacant position as vice-presi-dent, Mr W. J. Nix has been nominand Mr D. H. S. Riddiford as - -oW of the stewards. At the conclusion of the ordinary business at Saturday's meeting of the Wairarapa South County Council, the meeting went into committee to deal with the matter of a successor to Mr C. A'Court Opie, who recently resigned the position of County Engineer. The outcome of the deliberations was that Mr Alf. Johnson- was appointed to the position with the designation «f-road overseer. &*? One of the earliest pioneers-of the Dominion, died.on Saturdayl namely, Mr Charles Stuart, at his residence,- Judgeford, near Pahautantii, at the age of 86 years. Born in the ' year 1826. in Staffordshire, England, he arrived in.Wellington with his parents in the ship Birman in 1842. When tke gold rush in Victoria began he 'spent'a "few years in that colony, being present at the Eureka Stockade episode. "On returning to New Zealand he took part in the Maori-War, after which he turned his attention to surveying, one of his comrades in the party being the late Mr Burling, of W-aikanae. Then, after spending a few years fanning in the Rankitikef district, he settled in Judgeford. where he had resided for the past fifty-three years.