PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 30 December 1912, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr H. 0. Bennett, formerly baliff at Masterton, and now occupying a similar position at Timaru, was a "visitor to Masterton on Saturday- * ' A Hastings "telegram states itha't Lord and Lady Liverpool will be present on Tuesday at tho _ Australasian lawn tennis championships. Messrs K. S. and F. J. White, the •well known Hawke's Bay sportsmen, passed through Masterton yesterday fjer motor car, en route to Tauherenikau. Mr Neville Thornton, who die J at Wanganui last week, at the age of seventy-seven years, was well known in Masterton, having been engaged here as a scenic artist for some time. The i!W P. B. Cowx, of Waipawa, is going to England to study for the medical profession. 'The Rev M. Thomas, of Palmerstoui North, is also going to be a doctor. * Mr John Teasdale died in the Masterton Hosnitnl last evening. Te dewas'77 years of age, n»d had i>em ailiec for seme time. He had ■ ifo,r some time bo™ engaged as gardener bv Mt A. McLeod, of Cole Street. On Wednesday afternoon, John "William Merrick, for many years one •of the le-nding business inert in Cam3,ridee, died, asred 85. Ho retired business about a quarter of a century ago. Professor T. H. Laby, of the Chair cf Physics at Victoria College, and Professor H. B. Kirk, of the Chair of Biology, will leave Wellington for ' Sydney, on January 3rd next, to attend the meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of ■ ' Science. The death occurred at the Napier iHosnitaj on Tuesday last, of Mr Tucker, c\f Clivo, at the age '. «f 7.2 years. Deceased was an old and Siiofhly esteemed resident of thi<* d"»iricC andl was a brother of Mr W. Tucker, of Whnkatu. He leaves a igrowmi up family. The interment, •which was of n private nature, took place yesterday. Mrs Walter Ravrov. wife of a < 1 ' andl inekey. died ■i, ' under M-Woform an operation wtjjA" f>pn«idevpfi .serious. IWr T? In; vft nni-ly the morn-j-r, f Ar pi»-mn- + b '""'ith f couole of .Woes fTm TSW'sV and; +l'° pud bar- r"vnp ?>s j> irr°afc ivbn T-JiS r'vmcw-W?. v<s ouite o youncr rf ICtO,. She leaves a family of three children.