PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10711, 15 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

A London cable states that Prince Arthur of Connaught has returned from a visit to Japan. Mr A. R. Durrani;, of Napier, arrived in, Masterton yesterday. Mr P. liutler, a one time leading horse-ortner of New Zealand, us at present in Masterton. | Mrs W. H. Cook 3 wife of the j Hastings borough engineer, is at present on a visit to her Bister (Mrs A. Hoar) in Masterton. Mr Robert McNab, who is at pre- | sent in Australia, expects to return to' New Zealand at the end of the present month. A Timaru telegram states that the miner O'Connor who was rescued from the Mt. Lyell mine, has a sister ! in Timaru. She states that her three brothers are employed in the mine. ] Mrs Margaret Cawte, widow of the. late Mr J. Cawte, one of Marlbor- 1 ough's pioneer settlers, died at Mahikipawa last week at tho age of i ninety. She left a family of three i eons and five daughters. ' Mr H. Phillips, who for the past j five years has managed the Feilding I branch of Messrs Barraud and Abrur i ham's Misiuoss, has severed his con- j neetion with the firm to take up a farm on the Wanganui River. j Dr. Newman. M.P., and Mrs ' Newman, with Mrs C. Earle, will probubly bo present at the Political Reform League social in Masterton on Monday evening next. Mr William Coleman Ball, who for some time represented Messrs Mackav, Login, Caldwell, Ltd., in the Manawatu and Wairarapa districts, and who has been spending several months in Deneliquin, New South Wales, for health reasons, is returning bv the Maunginui on Thursday next. He has lentirely recovered I from his indisposition, and will again visnmn his duties at an early date. 'Mrs Ball is accompanying her husband. ,A quiet wed din <* was celebrated at the residence of Dr Cowie in Masterton yesterday afternoon, when Dr. Bruce Baird. who has been acting as locum tenons to Dr Archer Hosking during the latter's absence in Australia. was united- to Miss Margaret Bowman, of Glasgow. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. .Tames Baird Cfnther of the bridegroom) assisted by the Rev. A. T. Thompson, 8.A.. B.D. The bride, who Has attired in a handsome gown of white embroidered silk, trimmed with Maltese lace, with the usual veil and orange blossoms, wfls given awav by Dr Cowie. The bride also carried a beautiful bouquet of white roses and maidenhair ferns: She was attended by Dr Agnes Baird and Miss Elizabeth Cowie. A brother of the bride, who is engineer on the s.s. Tahiti, acted as best man. The newly-mar-ried couple left for Wellington by the afternoon train. The bride's travelling costume was of white stantung, with an elegant Leghorn hat, trimmed with roses and lillie.s. Dr and Mrs Baird will make their home in Pahiatti?..