PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 13 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr J. L. Murray and family, .of ' Mwterton, leave on a holiday visit to Castlepoint to-day. Mr Bill Smith, an old identity of Eketahuna, is at present lying seriously ill in the Dannevirke Hospital. The death i» announced by caWo from Newfoundland of Mr Edward Sboa, the oldest active legislator m the Empire. Mr R. P. Groville, an engineer of r" the Public Works Department, was on a visit to Mastortcn on Saturday. Adjutant TTultquLt, of the Masterton corps of the Salvation Army, who proceeds to Dunedin South this week, conducted farewell services yesterday. Mr H. W. Bishop. S.M., of Christ--church, is confined to a private hospital with illness. A Sydney cable states that the Hon. J. 'Ri. Sinclair, New Zealand's representative on the Empire Trade Commission is a passenger by the Manuka for Wellington. Mr C, W. Rattray fills the vacancy <«i the directorate of the Union Steamship Company, caused by the death oi Mr J. M. Ritchie. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher proceeds V" U Melbourne in March next, to at- } tend a trade reciprocity conference. The death occurred at Wellington mi Friday of Mr I*. Dwyer, who was well known in the hotel business. Mr and Mrs Fred Faiibrother, of Palmorston North, are at present on a visit to Carterton. Mr James Green, of Maa-tinbor-oHffh, is improving in health although a few dayß ago his friends had almost given up hope of his recovery. " The Rev. A. Hodge, formerly _ of Mivsterton, but now of Napier, is at present spending a holiday at Wai-

kanae. A Christchurch telegram states that Mr Bishop, S.M., the condition of whose health has been giving his .friends some anxiety, successfully underwent an operation on Saturday, and yesterday was reported to he progressing favourably.