PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 11 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Tho Rev. J. S. Young has been elelected Moderator of the Wairarapa Presbytery for the ensuing year.

The Hons. W. F. Massey. J. Allen and R. H. Rhodes,, return to Wellington from tho south to-day. Councillor C. C. Ivebble has been re-elected Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Masterton County Council:

Mr Broad, of the Marton branch of the Bank of Now Zealand, who is uot unknown in Master ton, lias been appointed manager of the bank at Waipawa. Messrs J. D. Ritchie and T. N. Broderick -remained at Brancepetll last night. To-day tliev will inspect the Fernyhurst estate.

The Hawke's Bay Herald of yesterday says:—Mr W. J Pallot left by the mail train yesterday for Masterton, and will be absent from Napier for about a week. Mr and Mrs John Hessev of Masterton, have booked passages for England by the Orient liner Otranto, leaving Sydney in April next. They will tour'the Continent as well as the United Kingdom. Mr G. R. Sykes M.P., proceeded to Wellington yesterday, to introduce an Eketahuna deputation to Ministers on the subject of tho water supply loan.

The Very Rev. Dean McKenna,' of Master ton, was present at the funeral of the' late Father Costello at Palmerston North yesterday. Mrs Jens Anderson, a resident of Ormondville, Hawkes Bay, died! last week, aged 82. The deceased lady was one of the original settlers on the Danish line, Norsewood. Mr William Cornford. an old settler in the Wellington district, died at his residence at Jolinsonyille at an early hour yesterday morning, after an illness of short duration. The deceased was born at Maidstone, Kent, 85 vears ago, and came out to New Zealand in the ship Lord William Bentinck, in 1811. The death occurred on Monday of Mr William Edwards, a resident of Croydon Bush for the last thirty-one years, and a colonist for sixty-<nine years. Deceased (states a Gore Press Association telegram) was 89 years old, and arrived in Auckland, in 1841. I". the early sixties h<s took part in the Otago goldfields rush. Subsequently he went to the Gore district in 1881. He leaves a widow, four sons and four daughters. At the Patea Hospital on Tuesday last, Mrs- Beer, wife of Mr William Beer, Manutahi, passed away at the age of 86, after a short illness, supervening on influenza,. With her husbandl, the deceased lady settled in Manutahi over 30 years ago. having come direct from Deal, _ Kent, England. Their only son is Mr G. W. Beer, who resides in Hurlcyville. At the present time Mr Beer, sen., is a patient at the Patea Hospital. The Lord Mayor of London celebrated his 82nd birthday on October 26th. He received many telegrams and letters of congratulations. Among tho presents sent to him were a cricket bat made of flowers, with the inscription in holly berries, "82 not outa satin box, filled with Banbury cakes from the Mayor of Banbury ; a case of briar and silvermounted pipes. "To the youn< T Lord Mavor from tho old officials," and a leather travelling cushion from the Leather sellers' Companv. In the even in ci' Sir Henry Knight, on behalf of the Aldermen, presented the Lord Mayor with a silver dish.

Mr S. P. Stevens, who was for several yea rs chief postmaster fit _ Nelson, died last Tuesday. He joined the Postal Department in Dunedmin 1865. Mr Stevens left the service for a time, but returned, and was appoiu-ted chief clerk at Timaru. He •became accountant of the Money Older and Saving Bank Denartment at Dune-din, and was 'W> promoted to Christehurch as chief clerk, subsequently becoming Assistant Inspector of Post Offices for the Dominion. Afterwards he went to Thames as chief postmaster, and from there was transferred to Nelson as chief nostmaster, and in 1906 was appointed to the chargo of the Christchureh office, retiring in July of last year on supernnjvn&tion, on- account of ill-lioixltn.

The death occurred, at the ..Masterton Hospital on Saturday, of Mr Peter Coster, an old resident of the Eketahima district. The deceased, who had reached the ripe age of 92 years, was a native of Frankfort-on-Mawn, Germany, and arrived in New Zealand about s*o years ago. settling first in Akasroa, where lie helped tio build the lighthouse. Deceased was a man of immense physique, standing close on 7ft, and being proportionately built. In his younger days he served his full time in the German Army, and was in the Franco-Prus-sian'war, but being of a roving disposition he migrated to England, where he was drafted into the Royal Life Guard's. For the last 40 .years deceased had lived in the Wellington province. He was employed as a workman in constructing the railway from Wellington to Petone. and also that from Picton to Blenheim. Deceased married twice, and leaves one soil). Mr George Coster, of Electahuna, The old man was recently sent from Eketabuna to the Sol way Home, and was removed from there to the Hospital.