PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 12 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

The death is announced of Mr Thomas Kelly, J.P., a well-known settler of Ohariu, near Wellington. Mr W. H. Cook, Town Clerk and engineer to the Borough of Hastings, is at present a visitor to Mastorton. Sir Joseph Ward has confirmed the rumour that lie is going to England for a trip. He will be absent for a few-months.

Mr Christian Curtz, a veteran of the Maori War, died at Palmerston on - Sunday at the age of seventy years.

The death is announced by cable from London of Lord Furness, a wealthy ship-onwer, at tho age of sixty years.

The death is announced of Mr A. R. Barclay, for some years member for Dunedin North and a member of the Otago Harbour Board.

Mr G. Stratford, Orchard Instructor to the Department of Agriculture, is at present in Masterton. He will remain here for a week,. visiting the various orchards.

Captain the Hon. R. 11. Collins, Royal Berkshire 'Regiment, who has been appointed to the New Zealand Defence General Staff, will arrive in Wellington via Australia, during tho second week in December.

The Prime Minister left for Auckland' on Sunday evening. He will not return to' Wellington for some weeks. He is to be entertained at Auckland on November 19th, when most of the' North Island members of Parliament are expected to be present.

The Rev A. T. Thompson, 8.A., 8.D,. of Masterton, leaves for Wellington this morning to attend the sitting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. He will be ab.se.nt- for abopt a week.

Aaron Howe, an okli resident of Levin ( was found dead in his room on Friday morning. At the inquest a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. Deceased was a native of Brigstock, Northampton, England, and had been in New Zealand for 70 years, and had never married.

A private cable announces the death on October 30th, of Mr William Finlay, who was in Dunedin ' ■ early sixties with the firm of R. B. Martin and Co. He was one of the pioneers at the Dunstan rush. From there he went to the West-Coast, where he was in business for many years, finally retiring arid living at Wellington for the last 30 years. He had large interests at- Wellington, and was until recently one of the principal owners of the Waipaoa Estate (the largest run in Poverty Bay). He was on a visit to the Old Country.

Mr William Grant, who passed away at Outram on Wednesday last, was <'i colonist of many years' standing. Born* at Perthsire in 1836,, he arrived at Port. Chalmers by the Strat-hmore in 1858. After, roughing it for some years, as most of the pioneers had to do, he settled at Southbridge. Milton, but later -on went to Cilairinch, near Outram, where he had resided for the last 35 years. He was for some years a member of tho Road Board 1 , and also served on the Outram School Committee., He was syr. elder of the' West. Taieji -Presbyterian Church, and held- office'at the time of death. He is siirvivecl by a wider. «*nd family of eight.

The Rev. Mr and Mrs A. Hodge, formerly of Masterton, celebrated their silver wedding. At a social gathering in the .Napier Congregational Church, Mr W. G. Ball, on behalf of the congregation, presented Mr and Mrs Hodge with a handsome token to mark the occasion. Mr Ball referred to the acceptable nature of Mr Hodge's ministrations since he had taken up the pastorate, of the church, and to the esteem with which the family were already regarded by all sections of the membership and congregation. Mr Hodge briefly and very feelingly thanked the members for their quite unexpected and substantial souvenir of the occasion. anC hoped lie and Mrs Hodee would live to see their golden wedding amongst them.

The. marriage" of Major-General Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, at Dorset', to Miss Olive St. CSjiair Scornes. on the 30th ult.; is thus referred to in a special cable message"The ceremony was of a quiet nature. TV bride Qualified as a girl scout before the wedding came off. Lady BadenPowell is a, tall slim brunette, and the veteran soldier met her while he was travelling in the West Indies !•> January hist before he came to Australia. She is very wealthy.. The General's marriage will mafce no difference to his connection with tb" Bm- Scout movement. ""He says:: "T wilt- never leave the Scouts, though Onnid has pierced +1 I*"—',«hief." General fifty-five years of "ever been married Wo™. is twenty-three and ci)'*'«uvly enhoc birthday is <->r> th** as her husband's, Febnin-'v 12 f h."