PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10718, 25 September 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

I Yesterday's arrivals at tho Club [Hotel in. .Mastorton include Mr and , -Mrs Cameron (J'inui), Dr Hector, Messrs Myers, Stuekey, Cooksk'y, Ro'uiusoii, .lamiosoii, Jolianson, iNorton, Hollow, -UcCiilmn and Pholaii. (Well liiigtonj. One of the original settlers of tho Maueiiester, Block, in tho person of Mr ..John .J cileries, died, in tlie Palrner.stou Hospital on .Saturday, at tho age of Vti years. Mr Jeffries carried on a but.liory and general store in H:ikonibe far some years, and -ako nad a farm. He had lateiy been living in Foilding. Mr Jeifenes Teaves a grown-up family of three daughters and one sou.

vieorge Barr, who won the first beat

:n ieatnet-weight contest at tho Australasian Amateur Championship Boxnig Tournament at Sydney, is a member of the Masterton Boxing Club, and received the whole of Iris "tuition, in this town.

-AJr Wren has, we understand, been appointed to succeed the late Mr James Pryor as head of the drapery department' in the W.F.C.A. „4 Masterton.

fMr X. J. Bennington; son of Mr Chris Bennington, and an old Masterton boy, was recently elected as one of the Commissioners to the Upper Hutt Town Board.

I. Miss E. Knox h.rs been appointed I sole teacher at the Rakaunui School. the meeting of the Wellington Education Board yesterday, eight months' leave cf absence was granted, to Miss L. McGregor, assistant at tho Masterton School, and a similar leave to Miss K. Campbell, bead teacher atKaiparoro. Miss Kerr, of Balance,, was granted, six weeks' leave, and: Miss A. Campbell, of Hastwell, threcv months. Leave of absence was also granted to Messrs Thompson (Balance), Toeker < (Manga tainoka), ard «-. J. Fcss (Fernridge) to attend tho October examinations.

Hohepa Tauhou, one of the oldest and best known. Natives of the Native settlement at Tui Pa, Te A *•<-!• ? v .died last week. Hohepa was p. •:'.•,'. :' 'of one of ..the hapns of the W:.,i.v,.,, I tribe, and. was a famous fighting ;-:;■. in his younger days under the £;••>• 'ship of William'Thompson;(-Wahr." ;\ He was present at the battle of Rr,.,< giriri, where it is understood he,was wounded. Ho luid some knowledge of English, and no little share of tho ' polish of civilization. He was, about '95 years of age, arid has one son surviving." ';■■'■•'.■■