PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 7 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

The New Zealand Gazette notifies the fact that Captain H. Hart, of Carterton, has been promoted to the rani: of Major of the Second' Battalion, 9th Regiment.

ft is announced in the Army and Navy Gazette that Captain Charles Shawe, A.D.C. to the General Commanding in Ireland, and Lieutenant T. R. Eastwood, of the Rifle Brigade, have' -been. _■ appointed'- Aide-de-camp and extra Aide-de-camp tq the Earj!of Liverpool,'-the' Governoi-designate of New; Zealand. .

Another old identity of the Wairarapa, in the person of Mrs Joseph, loins, passed away at her home on the Upper Plain yesterday.- The deceased lady had been ailing only a few days. She leaves a large family.

Mr J. E. Vernon Rector of the Palmerston High School, was granted nine months' leave of absence, by the High School Bonrd. The leave will he from about the middle of March, next.- and Mr Vernon intends visiting the Old Country during the nine months, making the journey home by way of Vancouver, and the return by way of S\'«z. During Mr Vernon's absence Mr F. Foote will act as headmaster of the High ■School.

N-ews his been received of the d'lath at Hastings 01 Sunday last, of Mr James Symons. brother of Mosdames 'Wm. and A. ',)'. Toogood, of Foatherston. The deceased, who was •IS years of age at the time of his death, is survived by a widow and four daughters, the eldest cf whom, Miss Alva Symons is at present in England completing hor education as a violonist. Mi- A. Toogood left fov Hastings yesterday.

We regret to have to announce the deatli of y Mrs Robert Grant, a .lady well known and highly respected in tins part of New Zealand, which took nlaee at Gladstone on Tuesday evening. Mrs Grant, whose maiden name was Margaret Sutherland, was born in Sutherlandshiro. Scotland, in ]B.*U. She arrived' v.\- Melbourne, 'Victoria; in 1882. after a nine months' voyage in the "Herald of the Morning." and a year later she came to New Zealand, where she married Mr George Grant of Sutherlandshire. For a time they resided at ,Lyel! Bar, near Wellington.- From there they went to the Lower Valley, and finally settled at Gladstone on a farm which became known.as Bannockburn. In 1880 Bauiiockburn became celebrated as the scene of the first Highland gathering in the Dominion. The settlers from the surrounding farms and stations were, many of them. Highlanders, and in the woolshed they regaled themselves with haggis, athol brose and other delicacies, following this up with Tullochgorum and foursome reels, bagpipe music and Gaelic songs and recitations. Mrs Grant's husband died about thirty years ago, and since then she has lived occasionally at her Gladstone home and, Mastefton. Sho leaves a family of nine sons and one daughter—Mrs A. .Stevenson of Kaitawa, besides 38 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The deceased 'was ''-a ■"?: sister.' ef Miss Selina Sutherland, who died four years ago, ; and to'whom a tablet was'erected' in'the Master-tori Hospital, of which she was the founder. A monument to Miss Sutherland has also been' erected "by public subscription in the Melbourne Cemetery as an nppre- ; ciation of her services among the poor of the city. The funeral- will- leave Bannockbum to-morrow (Friday) at 12 noon.