PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 10 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

Sir Joseph and Lady Ward have arrived at London. The Hon. H. D. Johnson, ow.Wes"traJia is at present on. a visit to his at EJtham. The Rev. A. T. Thompson, 8.A., 8.D., will probably return to Mastertoa from Sydney next week. A London cable records the death of Mr P. J. Power, Nationalist member dor Waterford. Rev. J. OhishoLm, of Mangaweka, has accepted a call from the congre- !' ',' gatioii, of the Waihiwa> Presbyterian <Jhurch, Southland. Dx, Mrs and Miss Johnston left Carton yesterday, en route for. the Old • Gauntry. Mrs audi Miss Davibon left on tihe same gourney. .The funeral of. the late Mr Jam us iStevens took place at the CJarevillu •Cemetery yesterday, and was largely attended Mr H. Salmon, manager of the Dunedin branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has been appointed inspector of the bank for the southern district of New South Wales. It is reported in";.Christehurch that Mr C. A. C. Hardy will shortly retire from the North Canterbury Board of Education, of which he has been a .member for a n-umber of years. Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., of Wellington, has been invited to }o i an international botanical excni-iion, to ioheld in America during Auj/.uvt and ••September., A cable message received last night from Ottawa, stated that the illness ■of the Duchess cf Connaught, wife of the Govornor-General of Canada, was causing grave anxiety. Miss Johanna Redmond, daughti-r •of Mr John* E. Redmond, Leader of the Nationalist Parliamentary Party, tas been married to Mr Green. Chairman of the Irish Prisons Board. Miss Isabella Dalton, of New South Wa'-s, And a relation of the bride,* acted «s train-bearer. A Press Association telecom, stages that Mr A. P; Green, of Dunedin. will sucoee-r'! Mr Knnc. a« man •»(«»?• of the Bank of N°w Zealand a+ Wellington, a->d that Mr Alexander Morris, it nros«»nt actini-mnmcer at Dunedin, k*n been appointed manager at flint place. ,

Mr G. H. Ralph, who has been in diarge of the Eketahuna Presbyte.ian Ghurch, at~two intervals, for about •!£ years, will .within a .few weeks late charge of the Apiti churcli. His removal will leave a vacancy 'h/ch w'U fee, extremely difficult to 'ill- ilis -•capability a.nd energy have been characteristic of his stay in Eketahuna. Mr-John Robertson, M.P., for ,lHeki,, is .suffering 'from a nervous .breakdown, and has been ordered a .•change bv his medical adviser. Ho has left for the King Country, where ho .intends to pitch his tent at Evra, .a 'little place ahout 3000 ft above :oa ilevel, and situated beyond tyaimarino. ■ Mr P. E. Watson, headm.isior of .Campbell Street school, who has :iot •ijeen in the best of health lately left by | /tli© early train yesterday for Welling-, ton, where ho will take passage by l the Maunganui' for Hobart. He will I •spend an extended liolitfay in ''.la«uian;a and expects to return about ih.j beginning of March, probably travelling' by way of Sydney —Manawatu Standard.

Another old and highly esteemed >•<- siident in the person of Mrs Baldwin. rrelict of the late Michael Baldwin, u#7 carried an a .butchering business in •Haittinga many years ago, passed Away shortly after ton o'clock on Wednesday morning at the, residence of her son-in-law, Mr W. Whittaker, of 'Oliphant Road. Deceased was stout 67 years of age and liad been ailing for' some time with heart trouble.

A wedding was celebrated a i KVn> mi on Wednesday, when Mr William <*eorge Howat, of Marima, and formerly of Koh'inui, eldest son of Mr Jameg Howat, of Lanarkshire, Scot-' land, was married to Miss 3'aiy FUen Barry, only daughter of Mr William Berry, a pioneer settler of t'io Kohinui district. The ceremony was rmfHil.at the residence of the onde's rarents, in the presence of a largo gathering of relatives and friends, including visitors from the South Tshrs.d and Napier.