PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 13 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

I Tho Chairman of the Eketahuna [ County Council (Cr. J. Dawson) states ' that ho does not intend fcekhjg re-el-ection to the position. A Washington cable, received last night, stated that Mr Bryan, United States Ambassador in Japan, had resigned. I The appointment of Mr A. H. Herbert, of Eketahuna, to a seat on tho Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board has been confirmed by the Pahiatua Count.v Council. < The Eketahuna Express states that Mr Thomas Moss., for some time Chairman of the Eketahuna County Council, will be a candidate for tho j vacant seat on the Wellington Education Board' A London cable states that tho Right Hon. H. C. British Ambassador at Santiago, lias 1appointed British Ambassador at Copenhagen.

I Mr Y. G. Turnor has been elected s by the Eketahuna Borough Council to - fill the position of Mayor, rendered va- ' ! cant by the appointment of Mr Ed- ) ward Page to the Magistracy. I Mr Bland Ray nor, of Masterton, -• is judging B'omney sheep at tho , Wanganui Show, which opens to-dav. ; and Mr J. Strang, fat cattle. Mr W. H. Booth, of Carterton, is judg- , ing Jersey cattle. \ I Messrs Edwin Feist, of Masterton, : and W. Fisher, of Carterton, are at ! tending the Presbyterian Assembly I at Wellington, a s representatives of » tho Wairarapa. laity of the Church. I I Messrs J. Montague and Harold ' Orogson. of Auckland, have been apf pointed to act as judges at the next competitions, to be held under +ho auspices of tho Masterton Competition s Society. The former will > judge elocutionary and the latter the , vocal and instrumental sections. -Mrs C. 31. Banks has been appoin;ed assistant mistress at the MasterI ton District High School. Miss F. ; Ihompson has been appointed solo teacher at Miki Miki, Mr C. Grant at Dyer, ajid Miss L. Robinson at Te Whiti. j The death is announced by cable .horn London of Mr William Black- , wood printer and publisher; Sir Regmaid Lister, British Minister at Tangier,- and Mr W. s; Penley, the wellfcnown comedian.

j. The friends of Mr and Mrs J. E , Desjdman, of Kqpuaranga, will regret : to hear of the death of their sonCharles William, which took place yesterday. The funeral will leave , for the Mauriceville Cemetery at 1.15 p.m. to-morrow. , r The many friends of Mr Duncan | McGregor, sen., of Masterton will be , sorry to hear that he is ia a very bad , state of health, and'he has found it ne . most skilled jnodical men in the Dominion. A Nelson wire ..states that Mis* ; Lorimer, principal of the Nelson Girls' College, received an intimation by cablo to-day, of tho death in England of Miss M. Kirton. first assistant mistress at Nelson College, who left in April last for a holiday tour in Europe. Miss Kirton was a daughter of 5 Mr R. Kirton, formerly chief post- ' master here, and now residing in New | Plymouth She graduated at Canterbury College, and had been on the I staff of the Nelso:i College for ten years, and news of her untimely death came .as a great shock to her ' t colleagues and pupils, by whom :lt\> ' was held in affectionate regard. A very-pretty and interesting wedding was celebrated at- Knox Church, Masterton, yesterday morning, when Miss Edith M. Smith, third daughter of Mr J. Smith, Church, Street, Mas- , tcrton, was married to Mr Richard G. , Williams, third son of Mr K. 0. Williams, Masterton. The bride was given, away by her father, and looked charming in a dress of merv silk, with 'chiffon trimmings. She* wore .the usual veil- and orange blossoms, > I and carried a floral horseshoe o£ , orange blossoms. Miss Elsie Smith and Miss Maud Williams attended ■ tho bride. They wore-*' pale pink ■silk dres-ses, trimmed with silk insertion. s>"di carried shower "bouquets. Mr Edgar Williams acted as best man, and Mr Sid. Smith as groomsman. The Rev. A. T. Thompson was tho officiating clergyman; The bridegroom's presents to the bridesmaids- [ were handsome pendants, sot with , stones, and with chains attached. A I large company sat down, to a wedding j breakfast at the residence of tht> . bride's parents, after which the j happy cotiple left en route for Nelson, where the honeymoon will he spent. The bride's travelling dress was a saxe blue cloth costume, trimj med with black and satin facings, i with a black hat audi ostrich feathers. ■ The popularity of the n«wly married couple was testified by the large numi ber of useful and handsome present* j which were received. A reception j wnss held in the evening at the home of the bride's parents.