PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

I Mr J. W. Povnum will commence bis magisterial duties on. January Ist. Mr M. J. Hodgins, of Lower Hutt, in at present on a visit to his farm in tho Ekatahuna district. I Tho death is announced by cable of Prince Lnitpold, heir-presumptive to the Bavarian throne. j ~ Miss Davis, matron of the Pahia- ' -■tila Hospital, is renewing tier application for an increase In salary. J Dr Hugh Paterson, who has taken up his residenco in Pahiatua, has been appointed honorary surgeon to •the local public hospital. , -Mr John M. King, Deputy Commissioner of Takes, has_ been appointed Commissioner vice Mr <T. F. C. Campbell, who is : ury. I Miss Dorset, who has been on the ' nursing staff of the Pahiatua Hospital for tho past five years, has tento succeed Mr J. W. Poynton as Se- .-*• "relieved of her duties on tho 31st in.stant." : Mx H. Bloomfield. of the Presby- j terian Home Mission, who is now j stationed at Apiti, .has been appointed to succeed the Rev. J. Rattray at Pongaroa. Tho latter has accepted "i!i call to Springburn, South Canterbur v. and' leaves Pongaroa in February. Out of thirty applicants, Mr John McPherson, of Masterton, lias been appointed City Forester at Welling'ton. The chairman of the Reserves 1 Committee stated at the meeting of tho City Council last evening that i the appointee had excellent testimon- I :ials. . * 1 Lieut-Col Beauehanip, C.M.G., was ; J .married at Waikanae on Thursday to | Miss Mary Jane Elder, formerly of iLangdalo, Masterton. Tho ceremony was performed by the" Veil. Archdeacon Gos'sett (uncle of the bride), of Christchurch, who was at I one time vicar of St. Matthew's, Mas- I tertou. Mrs O'Shea Petersen will contest! tho Denison (Tasmania )seat in the iHouso of Representatives. Mrs Petersen is a farmer's daughter a native of rural Tasmania, the third eldest of thirteen children, and is now a widow. She has lived* in Hobart since her •marriage, and has been an active .worker in all progressive measures, a member of a number of societies, and r regular attendant at Parliament for years past.