PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10682, 31 July 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr D. J. Nathan, of Wellington, was a visitor to Maaterton yesterday. Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P., has left for Wellington to attend to hi® sessional duties. The infant and only .son of Mr 0. E. Mack-ay, Mayor of Wanganui, died on Monday last. Reports received from Melbourne Indicate that the health of Mr W. W. McCardle, Mayor of Pahiatua, is improving. The death is announced from Wanganui of Mrs Inkster, wife of Mr A. The deceased lady, who was •-*W,rn at the Shetland Islands, camo to New Zealand over thirty years ago. Mr J. Dunn, of the staff of our local .contemporary, has received an appointment on the literary staff of the New Zealand Times, and leaves Maaterton for the city in the course of a few days. Mr T. 0. Bannister, who has been in the employ of the Master.tnn Farmers' Implement Company for the last sixteen years, has taken over the blacksmith's shop at Langdale, and has purchased a farm in that locality. His numerous friends will wish him «rery success in his new venture. 'At a' meeting of tho Teachers' Tn#itute in Gisborne on Saturday rnorn--9 ing, a presentation was made to Mr J). " B. Leslie, who is leaving the district to take up an appointment in Masterton. Mr Woodward, in making the presentation, spoke in very high terms of the work done .by Mr Leslie while in the district,, as secretary of the Teachers' Institute, as a teacher, • and as a citizen of Gisborne. Several •ther teachers bore out the statements made by Mr Woodward, and one and ail wished Mr and Mrs Leslie health And prosperity in their new sphere.

Mr George Froftgatt, a very well--law>wn resident of InvercafßiU, died suddenly on Wednesday on board the ittoamer on Lake Wakatipu, while returning to Lumsden from Queenstown -«* Mr Froggatt arrived in New Zealand HTCn 1864. He was an auctioneer and » general agent, was a prominent freemason, and also an active temperance -worker. Mr Froggatt entered the Irivercargill Town Council in 1877, and up to a few years ago served on that hody almodst continuously. He was Mayor of Invercargi.il in 1885, and •gain in 1903-4. Mr Isaac Hardtey, who was born at Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, England, on the 13th March, 1834, died at Hawera last weok. Ho arrived in New Zealand thirty-nine years ago, and went to Charleston on the West Coast of the Middle Island, afterwards removiag to Wcstport, and seventeen years ago taking up residence in Ha worn. Deceased, who is survived by his wife, ■one daughter, three sons, 25 grand- \ ohjldreH, and 14 great-grandchildren, was for 57 years a member of the Or--der of Oddfellows.

The death occurred at Gisborno last week of a veteran of the first war in New Zealand, in 1845, in the person of Mr Frederick Keating, at the great age of 94 years. Mr Keating eeryecj in Now Zealand in the war against Hongi Hoke, at tho Bay of Islands. .He was then a sergeant in the 99th 'Regiment of foot.' When the rw"'- Mnt Upturned to England he s discharged, but soon «fkr entered tho Royal Marines, and during the Crimean war nerved in tho Baltic under Sir Charles Napier. Ho joined tho military settlers in Now Zealand in the eaiiy sixtics, and went to reside in Gisborne •bout 1874.