PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10712, 2 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr 11. T. B. Drew, a well-known and capable joiiriuin.vt, has ta'M'i l •ovor the Manawutu Daily Times.

Mr John K. .Rush, an old resident of Palinurston North, died on Monday.

Mrs A. L. Why to, of Carterton, is at present spending a holiday in Christen ureh.

The death is by cable of Herr Meisenbach, the inventor of half-tone printing.

Tho Very Rev Dean McKonna will next month complete his twenty-fifth .year as parish priest in Mastorton.

" • 'd. (.'. Smith, stntionmaster at Palinorston North, was a visitor to Mastorton yesterday.

Tbi Rev W. MeCara, of Knilcoiira. has been nominated by the Dunediu Presbytery as Moderator of the Gen•eral Assembly lor next year.

'Mr and Mrs Parrairet, of Gisborne, are at present on a short visit to Mastorton. Mr and Mrs H. Kinney, of Nelr>o:i. :are on a visit to Mastorton. Detective Andrews, of Wellington, was a visitor to Mastorton yesterday. Mr Howard, Government Veterinarian, was a visitor to Mastorton yesterday. Tho Mataura Presbytery yesterday nominated the Rev J. Kennedy Elliott, of Wellington, as Moderator of tho Presbyterian General Assembly "for next year. Mr G. Boa gov, of tho Mastorton Post Office, is at present in Martinborough in tho capacity of actingpostmaster, hut has not been ap--pointed permanently to the position. Mr Frank Sydney Russell, secretary of Messrs J. J. Niven and Co., Ltd., of Napier, is dead. He was thirty-two years of \age, and a few ■years back was a prominent Hawke's Bay footballer. Mr A. H. Magson, of Masterton, has received an appointment with Andersons, Ltd., of Christchurch. On Saturday last Mr Magson was presented by the firm of Donald and Sons, with which ho hai been associated for two and a half years, wit.li a case of pipes. Mr J. G. Davis, an old resident of Christchurch, died at his residence in Richmond, on Monday morning. Mr Davis was a prominent member of tho Canterbury Horticultural Society, and was the proprietor of i largo nursery business. A Wellington telegram states that Messrs Harrison and Tanner, of the staff of the Inspector of Post Offices, have won the Gray Memorial prize , for 1911, offered by the Post and "Telegraph Department for the best suggestion adopted by the Department. The prize, which is shared equally, was awarded for an improved arrangement of tables in the Post and Telegraph Guide. A pleasant function took place in the Mastorton Methodist schoolroom last evening, when the members of the Christian Endeavour Society met together to say farewell to Mr T. S. Goldsmith, who has been one of tho most prominent members of the Society for some time past. The secretary, in a neat speech, presented tho departing member with two handsome volumes of Whittier's and Lowell's poems, as a mark of the esteem in which b* had been held 'by the members. The secretary said that they all regretted very much to lose Mr Goldsmith, and his departure would a severe loss to t)io Society. Still, their loss would perhaps be another society's g-iin. The Rev S. J. Serpen also snoko in eulogistic terms of Mr *nd said that he was a very willing 'Christian worker. Mr Goldsmith 'suitably responded. Refreshments • wore provided by the young ladies, and a pleasant evening was spent. "The Rev Mr Serpelt also presented Mr Goldsmith with a handsome copy of the Methodist Hymn Book, on be"ftalf of the members of the Quarterly TJoarcl.