PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 18 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

•Mr T. T. Hugo. Inspector of Firo Brigades, was a" visitor to Mastertmi yesterday. A London cable states that Kwei Oiih, Secretary of the Chinese Legation, has been appointed Chinese Consul-General lor New Zealand. Mr T. Cripps, of Masterton, has resigned his position as a Justice of the Peace. Mr E. Hale has been the Masterton branch of the C.E.M.S., at the conference in Nelson this week. Messrs J. Langmuir and J. D. fttimie have been appointed Inspectors of Surveys in the Department of Lands and Survey. Mr Whitelev, of Napier, who was tho broker for the Mangaone Oilfields, Ltd., was a visitor to Masterton yesterday. " Mr Charles Harris, sen., a well known settler of the Lower Valley' »s reported to be seriously ill, and little iiope is held out for his reco'veiv. Senior-Sergeant Darby, of the Lambton Quay station, Wellington, and formerly ot_ Carterton, has been transferred to Nelson. The Nelson Harbour TJoard yesterday appointed Mr Leslie H. Reynolds, of "Wellington, consulting engineer to supervise the improvement works. Mr A. McLeod, organiser of the Shearers' Federation, who has just completed an organising tour ot laialiaki and Hawke's Bay, is at present ■in Masterton. A London cable states that the Empire Parliamentary Association wlll tender a luncheon to Sir Joseph Ward ■in the House of Commons on tho 23rd) instant, , n te,°ve oil' 31st January for ®° investigate the methods of oit public works in the various States. Th* Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, Post-master-General, and Acting-Ministei of Defonce. will represent the Gov eminent at the funeral of the late ST jU Bryce at Wanganu. on Sunday. Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P., has been invited to be present at a garden party to be tendered the I ister at Hastings on January'29thAs he will be in the south Mr Sykes w ill foe. unable to accept the invitation. The friends of Mrs Dick, wife of ■Mr John Dick', of Ngaturi, and a pioneer settler, will regret to hear ot iiier serious illness. Mrs Dick underwent an operation in Pahiatua on 'Wednesday night. Tho Rev. C. H. Isaacson, vicar of St. Peter's Church, Pahiatua, has accepted' the charge of the parish of .Porirua an dwill take up his new of"fice early in April. The name of his "successor in Pahiatua is not yot "iknovvn. The engagement is announced of Miss Isobel Broadbent, youngest •daughter of the late Mr and-Mrs A. IBroadbent, of Carterton, to Mr Gordon Sniaill. also of Carterton. Mr -Sinaill is a son of Major Sniaill, of •Kaitangata.

-A Thames telegram states tlia't tho Prim© Minister arrived there yesterday. He was met oy the heacls_ or ■local bodies, and motored to various parts of tho town. In the afternoon 'he received deputations on local matters-. and in tho evening was ban-_ q netted. He visits the Hauraki IPlains to-day.

The death occurred at the Palmarston, Hospital on Thursday, of Mr A. ;W. Ellis, of Bulls, at the ago ot i>d •years Tin 1 deceased was a wellknown settlor and was a successful exhibitor of Southdown sheep and hackney horsos at several agricultural shows/The interment will take place at Monday afternoon. Mr George Paradise, a resident of Wellington for over thirty years, died suddenly at his home in Brougham lA.v©nue yesterday morning, aged 07. The deceased gentleman served anapprenticeship to a leading firm of booksellers in London, and entered the service of Messrs Lvon and Blair, on Lambton Quay, soon' after he arrived in Wellington from the Old Country.