PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 3 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr H. Hawkins, a well known solicitor of Palmerston North, is at pre-', sent a visitor to Masterton. Owing to the illness of the 'Rev. C. H". Standage. of Carterton, Mr I J. T. M. Hornsby lias agreed to take' up the former's pulpit work. The Hun. F. M. B. Fisher, and the British lawn tennis team, left Hastings for Christchureh yesterday niornA. London cable announces the death of Mr ,). W. Summers, Liberal member for the Flint District, and Chairman of the Flint County Council from 1904 to 19](I. Mr William Parkerson, an old resident of Woodville, died on Tuesday evening, aged 78 years. In _ the early days (states a Press Association telegram) deceased was a squatter in the disborn-o district. There passed away on Sunday, at his residence, Milton .Road, Napier, one of XewZealand's earliest settlers in the person of Mr William Bernardus Retomoyor. Deceased was at one time a resident of the Manawatu. The six year old daughter of Mr Con Yallanee, of Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, met with a rather serious accident a few days ago, resulting in the child having her leg badly fractured. She was taken to the Wairoa Hospital, where she is progressing, favourably. Mr W. Potter, Minister of Public Works iii'. Western Australia, is expected to pay a visit shortly to Eltham (says the ArgusL As a lad he was well known in Flthani. He is a son of Mr Thomas Potter, of that town. The death occurred at Feathers+on on Wednesday, at the age of twentytwo years, cf Miss Phyllis Whishaw, youngest daughter of Mrs John Whishaw, son, an old and respected • resident. ' The late Miss Whishaw had been ailing for some .months past, but it was not till within the past three weeks that her affliction bore a ver> serious aspect. The deceased was belt in high esteem by all with wli-m sir camo in contact, and her death ha? occasioned widespread expression; of regret.

Captain John Watson, one of the oldest a-rnl most highly respected citizens in Port Chamlers, died on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased wa* j boi-n in Scotland in 1831, and in 1848 ho went as an apprentice in a barque to Victoria, in the Arctic regions. He came to New Zealand during tip Maori War, and commanded the barque C-ollingwood. which was sen+ ■ t" the Chatham Islands two weeks pf + "- the escape of Te Kooti. He brought hack IB') Maoris, and landed tb'un at Taramiki. A few years later he entered the nilot service at Tainroa Heads, and for 18 ven-« was •■•"eretni">of the. Ota ceo Dock Trust, Ho tVn v "tired, and two voars ago revisited England, but since his return has been ailing. During an interval at the Tauherenikau races vesterdav, the president of the club, Mr W. E. Bidwill, referred to the honour which had been conferred upon Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.P. Mr Bidwill said that Sir Walter Buchanan was the best known man in the Wairarapa, and one of the most widely known men in the Dominion. ; He felt sure that ho matter what the political feeling of those present might be, all would join in congratulating their distinguished countryman. Sir Walter was the first man "on the land" to receive such an honour, and he was sure that all would, agree that the example he set in Steering a straightforward course was one that might be followed by all. He (Mr Bidwill) had known Sir Walter for 40 years, and during that period he had always assisted in anything that I was likely to pertain to the welfare of the people about him, and he had , done much to forward agricultural I pursuits in the district. He had left • an everlasting monument to his generosity in the Buchanan Heme, which I had recently been erected at Greytown. Tn doing this, ho set an I example which might well be followed J by other men of means in the country. } The dairving and frozen meat indusj tries in the Wairarapa had practically I been commenced by Sir Walter. Mr j Biddwill then called upon those present to give three hearty cheers for Sir Walt"r Clark Buchanan; three rousing cheers being the result.