PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 January 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr Evelyn Wrench and Miss Wrench will arrive in Masterton i;o-day by the mid-day train. They will be met- at the station by members of the local branch of the Overseas Club. His Excellency the -Governor and party, together with the Hons, A. L. Herdmah and F. M. B. Fißher, were patrons of the Trentham races on Saturday last News has been received in Gisborne of the death in Bombay yesterday of Mr Percival Barker,..a Wellknown sheep farmer who was returning to Gisborne from England via » Japan and India after a honeymoon j trip. I Mr M. J. lleardom, secretary of ] the N.Z. Slaughtermen's Federation, . was" in Masterton on Saturday. - He will leave for Wellington, this- .nioriir ing, and will address a meeting of slaughtermen at Potone to-night. Mr Joseph Karly Birley, who died; at luvercargill East on Sunday at the age "of !X) years, was born in Yorkshire. • He -was attracted to Aus - tralia/in 1854 by tbo gold discoveries tliera,';an<d eight jvars over to New Zealand, settling in ■ the Lakes district, where for years lie followed mining pursuits.. Subsequently the deceased built the Earns, law Hotel, at Glenorrliv. of wjiich he was mine host nnlil failing health compelled him to relinquish possession.

Mr Ernest Percival Fentoiv, of Masterton, was married! at New Plymouth on Wednesday last, to Miss Joyce D. Fitxherbert, of New Plymonth. The bride,who was given away bv Mr W. L. Fitzherbert, nf Palmerston North. was attended by the following bridesmaids :Misses T.ju'vie Sybil Fitzherbert, Miss Keitlia .^axl-on., and her four nieeo., •T>nJei«.. Maviovy. Betty,' and -PaYttia. M- P"rt Whit-combe was best" run n, and the were: Me'sr? Aiisti" and Cridenn Pot+. The tyev. A. H. Oolville was the officiating' clergyman.