PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 26 November 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

jLady Stout is a passenger on her return to the Dominion by the Maiwa, which left London,.tni November Ist last.

• A Paris cable announces the death of Charles Borsvel. at the age of 83. He was poor and unknown. The deceased was the principal discoverer of the telephone system. Mr Charles Janion, a very old NewZealand pressman, and the originator ■of the''New Zealand Year book," died at Wellington on Sunday. •

Mr C. Tuely, who died at Papaku'va last week, was formerly clerk to the "Waipawa County Council, and not to the Wairarapa County Council, as stated in our issue of yesterday.

Mr and Mrs Albert Goldio (the latter was Miss Dulcie Deamer, formerly of Featherston) arrived in New Zealand last,week, after a tour of Europe and. America. I Mrs S.-H. Manson. who passed J I away at Wanganui en Sunday nftrih-ij ' ing, at the age of 76 years, was a

Maori of high birth. She had been associated with Wanganui from tho very early days. Miss Marjorie Day, of has been allotted a place in the cast of Mr Frank Stayton's new comedy, "Tantrums," which is to be produced nt the Criterion Theatre, London, at' an early date. The Rev. Dr. Egan, late of Auckland, has for some time, been very closely occupied with work in London in connection swith an ecclesiastical 'Saints," which he hopes to bring out in the early part of. 15)14.

The death is announced of Mrs Catherine Barnes, mother of R. -J. Barnes, the well known chess player, who had attained the ripe age of eighty years. She landed at Dunedin for-ty-eight years ago, and has resided in Wellington for the last thirty-four years.

•""■'■ An Invercargill telegram states that Sir Joseph Ward was entertained at the Bluff on Saturday night, as a farewell prior to liis .departure on a trip to England,,and "yesterday Sir Joseph, LadvWard Miss Eileen Ward and Mr' Pat. Ward left the Bluff for Melbourne, where they will join the Moldavia. The party were enthusiastically farewelled and cheered by a large crowd on the wharf. The following is the list of visitors staying at the Marquis cf Norman by Hotel, Carterton. ; last week :—Wellington : Messrs Bridge* Banuan, Bruford, Collins, Dineen Elephie, Fraser, Fouhey, Gibbs, Green, Haughtoii, Johnson, Keeshan, Laurie Legg,,Mason, Prosser, Riggs, Rough # ,Stfange-' rnuir, Summerhayes, Trusfott. Ward. Taihape: Mr and Mrs Potts. Palmers* i ton North ; Messrs Pickering and Poole. Wanganui: :Mr Hart. Masterton: Miss Skerrott. Gladstone: Mr Slater. The Rev. Joseph Shearman, who was Anglican incumbent at Waipukurau from 1875 to v lßßl. died last week at his residence, Dulwich Hill, Sydney, aged 69 vears. He left Xew Zealand for New South Wales in 1881", and afterwards became incumbent of Kurrajong and afterwards of Mulgoa, where he was stationed for twelve years.' From 1859 to 1010 he was rector of Liverpool and Holdsworthy, N.S.W. Mr Shearman in 1870 went out from London for the Church Missionary Society to Masulipatam, Madras. He was ordained deacon in 1869 (Cantab), and priest two years later.