PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 February 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

k t ,i„ti cihle -tates that. Mr *'':; ''oii.-1,. ~f Can,*,,, loft Melbourne . at present. -» hor grandmother, Mia b. plected Mr S V ,i ! We, .. v lie branch of the L T°McKen,ie .an old resident of SoSa^^S-h^pitaly-tor-Rov. Eraser. B.A -ho. ta financial torian Church, is at present in UKe tahuna. ~ It is understood that Mr Webber uhohas just returned from b. np to England, lias been appointed to the aiketahuna IVeybytonnn charge. Mr and Mrs John Townley two of the oldest and most respected reSdwYts of Gisborne, celebrated their coldcn, wedding on Wednesday last They were the recipients of cordial congratulations .from hundreds ot friends. Mr D Uov'.e, clerk at the Masterion railway Nation, Vas recently transferred to the Lower Hiitt. .He -was succeeded bv Mr A. A.. Lvans, formerly Ktatiemnaster at Ormond-.-yiJlo. • An old and 'esteemed resident of Onehunga died recently m the person of Mr- Patrick N.evi le. Deceased was an old member of the 18tU Boyal Trish Regiment, with which h© saw a good deal of active service. He ■leaves a widow, a grown-up family, auid a number of grandchildren. 'Mr Jas. Richard Brown («nn of tuo late Air Charles Thrown, an early •settler in Wellington) died at 5 o'clock on Wednesday- afternoon, at the residence of his nephew (Mr Archibald Purdie)) in Tleaton Terrace, Brooklyn. The deceased was T)orn in Wellington sixty-eight years ago, and lived there all his life. ' The death occurred at Gisborne on Wednesday evening, of one of New Zealand's "foremost pioneers', in the person of Mr J. T. Evans, who has for many years been associated in business matters with many firms all over the Dominion, and whose loss will he a sad blow to a wide circle of friends and business acquaintances. Tho late. Mr Evans was born at Cheltenham. England, in September, 1841, and, received his education and business traininp at Derby. "He came to New Zealand in the ship Matoka, Inndrncr at Port Chalmers on July 4th, 1863.