PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 24 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

J Mi' A. C. .Major, of Hastings, is at' | present on a visit to Masterton. I Sir John and Lady Findlav suo passengers by the Moeraki, which leftSydney for Wellington on Saturday. An old resident of the Lower Hutt, n-:. the person of Mrs W. Mowbray, died on Sunday night, at the age of seventy-six years. A Sydney, cable states that the Hon. James Allen was welcomed 'by the' Hon. Mr Pearce, Minister of Defence for the Commonwealth, and the heads cf the Defence Department. Mr J. V'. Macdonald, formerly of the staff of the Poverty Bay Herald, has been appointed to the editorial staff of the new Queensland Labour daily, the Brisbane Daily Standard. Mr F. S. B. Waite, who recently resigned his position as engineer to the Kiwitea Countv Council, has accepted a similar position under the Whakatanc County Council. Mr J. F. Thompson, who is a passed solicitor, and who at .present is in the Land Transfer Office, : will shortly join the 'staff of Mr R. W. Tate, Grey town. . Mr James H. Stevens. Inspector of Post Offices, who is well known rn. Masterton has decided to retire from the service as from March 31st. H© has been granted three months' leave of absence as from January Ist. He has arranged' to take up the work of a special nature for a mercantile firm. At the breaking-up of the Kaiparoro school last week, Miss M. A. Burbush, who has been assistant teacher at the school for the last eighteen months and.whose services cannot !bc> retained, owing to the decreased attendance, was presented by the children with a manicure .<;et. Miss lorn-s, teacher at the Dyeiville school, who has been transferred to Plimmerton, was the recipient of several presents on the occasion of her leaving the former school. Mis.s lorns is a, daughter of Mr W. lorns, of Masterton. The citizens of Palmerston North tendered a farewell to Mr W. T. Wood, ex-M.P., last night, and presented him with a purse of sovereigns. Mr Wood is leaving Palmerston to seek health at a .seaside resort. Captain Joseph Tyndall Adams, in the earlier days well known in New .•Zealand shipping circles, died at the Taita , (Wellington,) on Saturday morning. Caotain Adams, who was born in London in 1842, went to sea at an earl yage in the ship Noroflk. He afterwards" commanded the Wairoa, in which he made a number of voyages to Wellington, and the Wanganui. When the latter vessel was sold, in 1888, Captain Adams settled down at the Taita, where he has lived quietly ever since. Mr John. Saxon, who died at Horowhenua on, Thursday, came to New Zealand, with his fanner and family m 1853, in tho ship Maori. 'They sottled in the Nelson province, and Mr Saxon began surveying under the late Mr Cvrus Golder, but leaving that work, ho went into sheen fanning, and managed a run for the late Mr Ward, of Blenheim. Later he married andi came to the North Island being one of the earlv settlers cf the.Manchester block, Feildincr. He then managed a large mixed farm, close to Feeding, for Mr Wrev, of England, durina which time he became a meirhoi- of the Mnnawatu Roadi Board and the Hosnital Board. He took an active interest in the formation of tlm Mnnawntu A. and P.. Association, ami was on.i> of the organisers nf the ftvst*