PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 17 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

A cable message irora Paris records . ilm-death cf . ike Earl of AshburnIhauC at the age of seventy-two years. Mr P. C. Freeth, editor of the Now Zealand Times, is on a months furlough. s He leaves ifor Sydney dayinnntin H W. Northcrdft, at one *<»• the Odk 'Mands The friends of Mr and Mrs Charles Yates of Masterton, wiU :repe .. their infant d.ed about midnight last night. Mr G R- Svkoa, M.P., . wiU leave J? with a ParljaJ33Pn.ta.ry "■& 35.-i.53. ™w, a fortnight. Miss Janet Crawford. (daushter of Mr and Mrs- W. G. Crawford, wae married at .Woodvdle c® Wednesday-'to Jlr Ar terrvus.JJ trtehlug, son of Mr and Mrs S. Hutching. Mr A Calvert, Government Inspects of Machinary, is at present m Masterton on Ms periodical tour ot j inspection, which will proba.bly occupy him two or three weeks in tne Waimrapa. Mr F. D. Clayton, manage,- of the Bank of New Zealand at tedding, lins been promoted to the rtanaße- ; - «£, the ;Me\bo«tno branch,.. Mr ItVoe ~of the Melbourne branch, is going to the head office as on inspector. '■ . . • Vißley «K)ad; Colytoti Ritchie, at the age'of 74 years. M. [Ritchie' went from the Wairarapa.to the Colyton district ten years ago, and has been farming.- 'He a grown up family of five sons aaid four daughters. . The followin~ Masterton oandidates were successful at th© University ex* aminations held last week for flpatriculation and .• ? j spliatora 1 general , knowledge:—WcjE, ' Evans, 0. T. -Saker, I Tankorfifey, A. L. TboTOp-r son,' M. F. Wallis iR. N. "Wilton.

Miss Flora Haruiay. .youngest ■daughter of- Mr and Mrs W. M. Hai> nay, and a sister of Mr A. Hannay, ofl'e Pare, Feathorston, was mar•jried- to Dr G. A. Forrest; of; East Oxford, Canterbury,, at the Keiit Terrace Presbyterian Church, Weliifigton. on Wednesday, by the -Bov. ,1. K. Elliott.

Referring to the rumour that Mr J. G. Wilson is to be called to. the Upper House, tho Eltlmin Argus, with tlae Hon.. F. Carncross, M.L.C., in Che editorial chair, says: "We hope that it will soon be more than a whisker. -Several years ago this journal openly suggested the- calling of Mr Wilson to tie Legislative Council; 1m soma nation -would trive j/jreat satisfaction to a very large, section of the community. 1 '