PERSONAL
Mr F. B. Waite has tendered his resignation as engineer to Kiwitea County Council. Councillor William Perry, of Penrose, has been re-elected Chairman of the Wairarapa South County Council.
General Bramwell Booth, head of the Salvation Army, is anxious to visit Australia, and hones to do so within the next two years. Mr Thos. Moss has been elected unopposed to fill the vacancy, of the Eketahuna County Council caused by the death of Cr. Sheehyn.
At a municipal by-election in Palinerstou North yesterday Mr F. -T. Nathan was retrmnd. vctos against Mr S. F. Hunt's 219.
A Palmorer.o" North t'decmi w. "avds the death yesterday cf M-s Dunn, at one ti:w matron of theAdt 'h'np+on Prison. Deceased came to + be Dominion forty vears asro in the Tsle of the South, in charge of a number of immigrants. Mr L .Minifie, student of Method : st College. Auckland hr>s tb n "harue of the Methodist Church, D'M-onporf Auckland, during his vacf'i:""<-. and wil Icommenc" his ministry as from Januarv sth. 1913.
Mr William Pctv. of Penrose, M"> yterton. contemplates paying a visit to the Old Country in April next. The Pnhiatna County Council has passed a resolution of with the family of the late Mr D. Sheehyn. a former member of the Eketahuna County Council. Tho adding of Mr Frank R. Bladen, well-known and popular resident of Featherston. to Miss Sadler, a daughter of Mr W. TV Sadler of "Lowlands," Tauherenikau, took nlace yesterday. Tho Rev. Percy Bladen, brother of the bridegroom. performed the ceremony.
on the appointment of Mr D. 'Robertson to the position of Service Commissioner, Mr W. R. Morris ('Assistant Seeretar\ A will be promoted.' to the position of Secretary of tho Post and Telegraph Department.
In St. Matthew's schoolroom Masterton. la«t evening, the Rev. H. Williairiv. on behalf rf the parishioners of the Church presented Mrs Hunn with n ours" of severeinms, nvx] Miss Fannin with 1.1 travelling bag and three valuable bonks denling with Church history. Mr F ,T. Hunn returned thanks on behalf of Mrs Hunii and Miss Fannin.
Mr Llewelyn Serpell, eldest son of the Rev. S. J. Sernell, of MasterW, has been successful in passing his semi-final professional medical examination. We congratulate him. and trust- that at the end of next year he will he as ..successful in his final. Mr Sernell is now on a visit to his father, in Masterton.
The Rev. Rameka Haumai, Native minister of the Church of England Mission to Maoris, died at Tauranga yesterday morning, aged 65-years. He was educated at the Maori College, Gisborne, and was ordained in LS9S. He came to Tauranga in 1900. Deceased took part in the Maori war, on the Government side. Pneumonia was the cause of death.
At the social in St. , Matthew's schoolroom last evening, the Rev.
Henry Williams, who has occupied the pulpit in the absence of the Rev. H. Watson, was given a hearty sendoff. Mr J. W. Blackmail, on behalf of the vestry, presented the Rev. Williams with a solid silver paper knife with grcenstono handle, and a greenstone paper weight, Mr Denby on behalf of the C.E.M.S., presented the acting-Vicar with an album of Mastcrton views, containing the names of the members. The Rev. Williams acknowledged the <jifts in a feeling manner.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 29 November 1912, Page 5
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