PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 30 September 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL

The conditio;! of health of Sir Wik liam Steward, who is now in his 72nd year, is causing anxiety to his friends. Mi' A. 0. Coa&idiiie has b; en, elected Chairman of the Martmlwrough Town vR Bo.ird. The. death recently occurred at Toowoomba, Queensland, of Mr Wilfred Beckett, son of Mr C. G. Beckett, ;i well-known journalist, formerly of Carterton. Mr R. G. Poacocke, formerly of Geraldino,. has been appoint**! to succeed Mr H. C. Ix»wia as manager of the Union Bank at Martinborough. Mr William Douglas, a very old re&ident of Hawera, UiedJast week a* ■ the ago of eighty-five years. Mr Smith Sullivan, an old Hawera. resident, died suddenJy at Now Plymouth on Thursday last from heart disease. .mM | Mr W. W. McCardle. Mayor of Pahiatua, was accorded a welcome

home from. Australia 011 Friday avight. . and was entertained at & socisl by the citizens. M.r McCardle Wa3 presented with nn illnroinatgd address, and. Airs McCardlo with a handsome silver i tea service and a purse of sovereigns.

• Tlfp. death occurred on Sunday last at his residence. Invercargill, of a. very old residWit of thai town. Mr Alexander Hay tho well known, grocer. Mr Hay was born in TVorkeithing, Fifoshvre. in 1812. and on leaving | school was apprenticed' to fh e engineering, but when on.lv a young man,,, 1 twenty years of age. he was attracted | to New Zealand, arriving »t Kuff D T the Robert Henderson in 1882.

The funeral of th» late. Mrs "ft.- E. Araooro took place- in Mn-pt-erton on Saturday .last, the cortege being a fairly lengthy one. A shoTt service was conducted at the- house by tb& Her. K. T. Olds, and the Key. S. J. II conducted tip. ifp>itiYg. at th© ' graveside. Messrs L. Williams, B. [Chapman, W. Smith and -T. Nicol act»d as ■nnll-lxwors. Antonytftc'jnany ' beautiful floral emblems received wer» j wreaths from the Kuripuni '-MothotKsfc (Church, the Thv.W Tiroes' employees, land the Y.M.C.A.