PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10683, 1 August 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL

) ' Mr G.-W. E. White, travelling reI presentative for the newspaper "ProI igress," is staying in Masterton for a. j few days.

The friends in Masterton of Mr J. Pryor will regret to hear that he has found .it necessary to enter a private hospital to undergo, an operation. Mr C. Churchill Jackson, Chairman of the Mauriceville County Council, has ben appointed a Justice of the Peace. '

The death is reported from Hamilton of Mrs Blackman. mother of Mr J. W. Blackman, manager of theMasterton Gasworks.

Mr Willie Moore, a well-known resident and former Mayor of Carterton, is on the recently-issued list of Justices of the Peace.

The Hon. J. D. Ormond and Mr Fitzroy will represent Hawke's Bay* at the, annual conference of Acclimatisation Societies to be held in Wellington on August I4.th.

The resignations of Miss G. Reynelly assistant teacher at the Masterton. school, and of Miss R. Wiesner, solo ■teacher at the Tane school, were on Tuesday accepted by the Wellington El'ic it on Board.

L„ave vf absence was granted by* the Wellington Education Board on Tuesday to Miss A. D. Bright, mistress at Miki Miki; Miss N. Hogg, assistant at Masterton; Mr R. Stout* head teacher at Belvedere; a*.;d Miss Magill, assistant at Ponsaroa.

The engagement is announced of" Miss Ruth Prior, sister of.l>r. Prior, of Masterton, to Mr J. A. Brailsf-rd, 8.A., editor of the* "Centra] ChinaPost," Hankow.

Sergt.-Major McCri ■' ■':, rf the 9tk Regiment, 2nd Battal'io". cf Territorials, whoso headquarters were formerly at Masterton, has received notice to transfer his headquarters to- Carterton.

At the meeting cf [he- Masterton Fire Brigade on Tuesday evening, it was unanimously decided to place ExSecretary E. Pragnell's name upon the life members' list, in recognition: of his long and honourable service.

The following visitors arc staying at the Club Hotel, Masterton: —Mr and Mrs Rcnaldo, Mr and Mrs Fox, Mr Marquis, and Mr Crawford (of Richard's Co.), Miss Groves (Bush Grove), Mr Armstrong (Auckland), Miss Mitchell, Messrs Garner, Rough, Ross, Latham, McKee, Hollow, Atkinson, Swan, Athya, Keir, Howling, Bush and Anderson (Wellington)! Davies, McDuff, Wyeherley, Hollow, Johnson, Shields, Athya. (Wellington), Coleman Phillips (Carterton), MeFeran (Christchurch), Haswell (Eketalmua). Bathen McGregor (Auckland).

A'very pretty wedding was solemnised in the Carterton Presbyterian Church yesterday, the contracting parties being Miss Isobel McGregor, second daughter of Mr and Mrs M. J. McGregor, Hikorangi, East Coast,, and Mr Edgar Leonard Nitz, Stansboro. Kaiwhata. The bride, whowas given away by her father, looked very charming in a dress of whit© muslin, with an embroidered veil, and wreath of orange blossoms, and carrying a beautiful .bouquet. Misses Barbara and Marjorie McGregor,. sisters of the bride acted as hridesmaids, and were prettily attired in white muslin, with veils aiid wreaths of pink roses. Mr D. Thompson, Stansboro, Acted as best man, and Mr Ronald Nitz, as groomsman. Tho Rev. Thompson conducted the wedding service. The wedding march wa» played by Miss Feist, Carterton, the service being fully choral. The. bride's, present to the bridegroom was a handsome dresing case, and the bride and bridesmaids received pretty peridot pendants. After the ceremony a reception was held in the Church Hall,, at which a large number of relation* and friends were present. The presents received by the happy couple were both numerous and costly. Mr and Mrs Nitz left by the afternoon train for Wellington, where the honeymoon will be spent. For Chronic ChesJt Complaints, "Woods' Great Peppermint Oure, Is. 6d. 2a 6d. For «btt6Veo't tSactrng Cougk at Night, WoodV <Jr«At Out*, lb 6<*. 8» V