PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 17 October 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL.

„, . '■ i t \i.-f,/ His Lordship Bishop Sprctt wilT arrive in. Masterton from Wellington, by •the mid-day train to-day. Mrs T. Hawkc. of Pahiatua, -daughter of Mr and Mrs Z. M. Hoar, «f Masterton, leaves this week to take up her residence in Gisborhe. An Adelaide cable announces the 'death of Mr Jamieson, a member of the South Australian Assembly. 1 Mr J. ißarr, of Greytown, received news on Friday of the death , of ■bis mother -in Wanganui. Dr and Mrs Archer Hosking, of Masterton, returned. to Wellington irom Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday. Constable Brown, of Masterton, is , at present relieving Constable Larkin at Greytown. The latter is on holiday leave. Not many people know (sr-s the Standard)" that shortly before her death, the late Mrs Card presented an invalid's chair to the Greytown Hospital, selecting it herself, having gone specially to Wellington for that purpose. Mr R, B. "Ross stated at a meetins of the Woodville, Chamber of Commerce that he. did not intend contesting the Pahiatua- seat at the next election. A Taihnpo telegram announces the death of Mr George E. Mills, aged •70. Deceased was a well known Marton settler, and had been paving a \ visit to his married "daughter. An- in- J quest will be held to-day. \ The death is announced by cable from London of Bishop Samuel Marsden, formerly Bishop of Bathurst. New South Wales, at the age of ■eighty years. Captain' Sidney St. John Lidia'-d. formerly . well known in nautical circles in Wellington, died on Tuesday, at the age of 4f) years. Deceased leaves a wkloav, hut no family. j A Press Association cable message ' 'from London states tii.-V- Major Macdonakl. of New Zealand, has passed his colonel's examination. Major Mncdonfld was.for some time in command of the Ke\v Zealand School Cadets. Mr R.S. Booth, manager of the Nelson branch of the Union Bank of Australia For many years past,'"' rc+ue on "a pension next month. He will bo succeeded by Mr F. It. Creasy, manager, of the Greymonth branch, A Wellington telegram states that ' Sir Joshua Williams was vesterday presented by the legal profession of New Zealand, with a solid silver salver and a pair of missive silver enndelnbria. in celebration of the knighthood which has been conferred unon bim. A largo and distinguished gathering was present at the function. A very old resident rf Wanganu:, in the person of Mr Robert: Riekard.s, | passed rw'ay on Monday morning at tlif r"sid-Mice of ln's nephew. Mr Fred Arthur, Glasgow Street. Mi- Riokards, who lyid almost comnleted .his * 90th yeaiv was a native of the United ! ' During the whole of his long life he had been associated with the Methodist Church. There passed away .suddenly on Monday morning at Potone, William Henry Holmes, afc the age of 71 years. Deceased was highly respected and esteemed, : nd his deatli %,-i}l ho men rued by a large circle of friends. He was borne in Folkstone, Kent <in 1842 and was apprenticed to the briekmnking trade. He left the Old Land and settled for some time in Tasmania where he worked on the nilway. _ Ho then went to Melbourne and got a position on a dredge working in the Yarra. Thirtyeight years, ago he came to Now Zenland and secured a position in Wellington at briekmaking. He then shifted to.Feilding where he went on the land, and about three years ago retired and went to reside in Potone. Visitors at the gffdh Hotel, -Masterton, include Mr West (Pnlmerston North), Miss Denrie (Hawke's Bay), Mrs Nevjns (Annedale), Mr Walsh (Wangairrti), Messrs Conquest. Cowan, Rcnrdon, Davis, At'hya, Bammingart, Ross, Harlo. Godwin, Collier, Flcmming, Fuller, 'Forbes, MeDougal. Stokes, Meyer. Bell, Shipley. O'Connor, Wilson. Jones, Jenkins, Kclnher, Martin. Body, Mountford. Evetfc. Paterson, Hurley, Maltby, "Loncgrin, Yule. Hodginson, Watson. (Wellington), Abraham fChristdmrch)