PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 9 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr L. F. Ayson. head of tho Gov- ,1 eminent Fisheries Department, was in Mastertori yesterday. He returns | to Wellington this morning. Miss Jessie McGregor and Miss Ina McKenzie, of Mastorton, carried off -second prize in the piano duet at the Dimedin competitions. The friends of Mrs A. Murray, of Waterfalls, will be pleased to knowthat her condition is somewhat im- £ .proved. On the advice of Dr Jamie- J soft, of Eketahuna, she will probably undergo an operation in Masterton at an early date. A London cable .announces the ■death of Professor Walter William Skeat, Fellow of the British Academy, and .Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge since 1878. Dr and Mrs Archer Hosking leave Sydney this week on their return to Mastorton. They will reach Wellington on Wednesday next. A London correspondent states that ( Mrs C. Gawith, of Mastorton, and ( her family, have visited the North of England, Scotland, Ireland and the ■ Continent,,....and are now settled in London for a time. • At the meeting of the Wairarapa 1 Presbytery yesterday, the lievs E. C. j Tennent, J. K. Stowell and A. T. Thompson, with Messrs Bruce and .Wilton, were appointed delegates to I the General Assembly. J The death occurred at Duncdin on '• Monday of Mr J. B. W. Craig, son -of Mr and Mrs J. W. Craig, of Napier. The deceased, who was only twenty-three years of age, had a brilliant scholastic- career, ihaving J.ast .year passed the M.A. degree witli ■ •honours in mental science. Mr James Bayliss, who died at Palmerston North on Monday, was for many years a resident of the Wairarapa. He was for a- considerable period a member of the Carterton Borrough Council, and was a director of. I the Dalefield and Belvedere cheeso ' factories. Two of his (brothers j (Messrs W r . and T. Bayliss) were | pioneers of the Eketahuna district. ' The remains of the deceased were interred' in the Clareville cemetery yesterday. Mr C. Spencer Compton, the newly-appointed church organist of St. Matthew's, Masterton, is a musician of high standing, and of life experience. Ho has been singularly successful in Australia in I "his musical career, and with his pu-I pils. Some of the latter have annexed both the gold and silver medal that is annually offered by the Sydney College of Music for the candidate obtaining the highest honours percentage, while other pupils havo obtained the coveted College Badge. Only last year one of his pupils won the ladies' champion vocalist section (with a gold medal) at one of the great Australian musical festivals, and this year his vocal pupils have also been success as prize winners in all sections. Mr Spencer Compton himself is the possessor of several beautiful gold medals, won in open competition as conductor of Choral and Philharmonic Societies, etc.. and has been the recipient of many illuminated addresses, presentations, etc. He has decided to .settle in Mastorton and receive pupils for singing and voice culture, also for pianoforte and organ. This district is fortunate in having a gentleman of Mr Compton':-; musical lability and experience .as a resident teacher, and the church he has become organist of, is equally to be complimented on securing the services of a. Hell-known Australian organist. Mr Spencer Compton's address is Devonshire House, Victoria 'Street.