PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 February 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL

Sir William and Lady Hall-Jones are about to return- to New Zealand. A London cable records tbe death of Lord McNagliten, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Mr 0. Pa rata, M.P., is at present on a visit to 'Masterton. He is the guest of his sister (Mrs Tai to Tau.) Mr Fred Moore, President of the Wanganui A. and P. Association, is a visitor to the Masterton show. Mr G. de Bayliss, Field Instructor to the Agricultural Department, was present at the Masterton 1 show yesterday.

5- Sir Rider Haggard and the other a members.* of the Empire Trade Commission, arrived at Melbourne yesterday. by the s.s. Medina. n Constable D. B. Murra>\ of Kai- [_ tangata, has been appointed senior t _ constable at Carterton in succession to e the late Constable Carmody. y Ma jor-General God ley. Commander e of the Forces, visited Wanganui yess terdav. and inspected the Collegiate e School and senior cadets. Superintendent Snriggins, of Wand ganui, was last night elected president of the United Fire Brigade's' Association of New Zealand for the en- - suing year. Mrs Scott, wife of the late Captain s Scott, will reach Wellington by the j Aorangi from San Francisco on the 27th inst. Accompanied by Lieut. ' Bruce, she at once proceeds to Sydg nev to join the P. and 0. steamer for England. I A cable message from London last 5 night recorded the death of Mr G. 3 Louip Bccke, the well known novelist. 5 He was borir in New South Wales in >. 1848. His publications included many 5 tales of the South Sea Islands. He , was at one time editor of the North Queensland Herald.

■ The many friends of Mr Giles Chamberlain, will regret to learn of the death of Mrs R. W. McLaren, at : Las. Trancheras Station, Argentine 1 news of wliicli \va.s received in Mas- • terton by cable yesterday. Mrs Mc- • Laren wap only 29 Tears of age, and left Wellington for the Argentine ' n ioiix thrcp. months TIIO catisg of depth was not stated in the cable. It will be a couple of months before word .reaches here by mail. The death is announced from Bunnytliorpe of Mr F. J. Jeffries at his lesidence, on Saturday afternoon. •10-,^ R came ollt to the colony in 18/j, first reading, in Feikling. and was one of the first" settlers who took up innd in the Bimnythoroe district some 3/ years ago. Though of a mi let disposition he had' made manv 11 lends by his kindness in helping those in need, and the deepest .sympathy js felt for the bereaved wife and family m- the loss they have sustained. The family consist? of one daughter and four sons.—Mrs Gof kins, 1 ff J e, ' ; I ~omas Jeffries, Stanif ' x i :er ' Wairara P«i: Sydney and Linest. -Bunnythorpe. The deceased, v ' "0 ' iac ' reached the riue ace of 70 years, had seen many oftlie 'hardships S'f e , cai " l / in the district. He helped to form tlie railway line be- | tween Palmerston and Marton. The