PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10710, 2 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

, Mr D. Gordon-Lloyd, solicitor, Dan'nevirke, is at present in Masterton. .Mr Pryor, of Masterton, is at present acting as temporary teacher at "the Tane school. Mr Eric Boagey, of Pahiatua, has "received notice of his appointment to the Hamilton Post Office staff. Mr W. C. Bucha.nn, M.P., has accepted the position of patron of the Teatherston Horticultural Society. Major-General Godiey, who left on a departmental visit to Australia a -fortnight ago, is at present in Melbourne, - afitf 'is'theTguest of the •Governor of Victoria (Sir John Fuller.) -A private cable message received - ; -in "Wellington announced the death of • the Very Rev. 4 Father O'Farrell, ; O.S:S.R., who was one of .the first of 'the 'Rtedemptorist Order to come to -Australia. A very old and welWmowin. resident Manaia passed away on Wednesday morning in the person of Mr ■John Ryan. In the course of Hiswork as contractor and; builder during the last 25 years in various parts of ■the district, Mr JRyan was kno)yn ■ all through South Taranaki. He came, •to Taranaki over 00 years ago, and settled at Otakeho, cornbiniug farming and contracting. j The late Mr Robert A. Rickards, ' :says the Wanganui Chronicle, whoso •death at the advanced age of 88, oc- ! -curred recently, was the last New : Zealand member of the adventurous j ;party, who- migrated from New] Brunswick, Canada, in 1852 and settled ia Australia and New Zealand. The party formed 1 a syndicate and /bought a brig of about 800 tons burden, and left St. John's, the capital •of Brimswick ' i.n August,. 1852. 'Th.e£ arrived in Melbourne in" January,: 185,3. 'The''Sew''Zenland party rafter remaining about a month in -Melbourne, came on to Xew Zealand :jil a vessel called the. Belle Creole, • •coimtjainded by Captain I"entou, a '" •-riving at Wellington ou the Ist Feb-.-.TUary.