PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 21 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

A London cable records the death of Mr Richard Norman Shaw, It.A., architect, at tire age of eighty-one years. .*•

Yesterday's arrivals at-the Club Hotel include Messrs ,/ Rcidl, S.M., Goldman, Foss, Mason. McQui© Horner, Burry and Cooksley (Wellington). Father Tymansof the Greenmeadows Seminary, lias beesi\ temporarily appointed successor to the late Deao Grogan as parish priest at Meanee. Mr H. E. Abraham, who for the past four years has- been manager for Messrs Abraham, and Williams, at Levin, says the Chronicle, has resigned his position with the firm to order to assume a managerial position in Taranaki.

A London correspondent, writing on October 3 ( .states that Captain Head, who is a well-known mountain climber in New Zealand, intends returning to the Dominion next year. Tn the meantime he intends travelling through the Levant and the Balkans.

. Among tho passengers on their way to New Zealand is the well-known Gloucestershire bowler. Mr .Tack Board, who is accompanied bv his son. Board, jun.. will go into sheepfarming. while his' father will return to England in thp Mr A. Hay, who for the past two a half years has been teller in. thev . Martinborough.branVh cf th« Bank of New Zealand, left on Monday for Akarna in ther South Island. having been transferred to the bank there Admiral Ross, of the United States Navy, who is on a lengthy tour of the world, is visiting the Hnwke's Bay district, and is at present the guest of Mr G. P. Donnelly. The admiral is a main of many interests. He has •parried out important naval works in his own country, is an expert on. harbour construction, and is also a. keen stockman.