PERSONAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 February 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL

Miss E Monckton, of Featherston, . leave® on (Friday for Sydney, en route to the Old Country. Mr W. H. Gilford late general -manager of the New Zealand limes, 'has purchased the Tauranga 1 lines. Hui Grace Archbishop Redwood ■expects" to" return to Wellington in April. . 0 At the annual meeting of the »».air a ran a Rifle Association, a was carried congratulating falter [Buchanan upon his well earned ttlt. , Mr Weslbrook, a Wanagnui dfleimto to the ilechahite Conference at died suddenly yesterday morning. • Leave of absence has been granted *"bv the Education! Board to -Miss M. Brown, of Eketahuna. Mr A. .Jamieson M.A., -organkuig secretary cf tlio Y.M.0.A.. Masterton yesterday. Ho _ will spend about' ten days in the district. His Excellencv the Governor (Lord [Liverpool) will be present at the inaugural'show of the fa ill a lie A. and IP. Association to-day. Mr and Mrs W. Udy, of Greytjjwn. celebrated their goklea wedding yesterday. There was a large gathering of relatives.' The death is- announced by cable of the third Lord Nelson who was born in 1823, and succeeded to the title m 1R35. He was a great nephew of the illustrious naval commandei. ATr W D Lvsnar, of Gisboriie,<»wiis again on a vi.it .to Masterton yester, day. During the, last few da>« he has been addressing mt 'ie Manawatu and Rnngitikei districts. " The' Mayor (Mr J. M. Coradine) lias been again nominated to repieesent the Masterton Borough Council on the Board of Managers'of the .ltcli- ■ nieal School. , . Messrs H." H. Beetham, A P. Whatman H. Morrison- and. W.J. • Welch are among this year s vice-pie-Kidents of the Wairarapa Rifle Association. Sir Walter Buchanan has-been re-elected- president. Mr W. H. P. Hodgkins, manager of the Masterton branch of the Bank 1 of New South Wales...who Mas been transferred to 0 amworth. New South 'Wales,, expects.' to leave for Australa by the Sydney boat next week. The 'Wellington Education Board lia s accepted the resignations of ' ;Lvv ferns,' of the iNormal School, and Of'Mks A. Murray, cf the Masterton District High School," as from March '3lst next. , v •• > ;. ' \ telegram .. states that Mr Alfred Dillon ex-M.P,, was entertained on Tiirf'dav night, and presenter! with an illuminated address by •the. Maycir.- Mrs Dillon was presented with a silver tea and coffee ■ ser- ■ t vice. ,; ; Bro. W. E.' Robertson- was installed as W.U. cf Lodge Puketoi, at Pongaroa on Tuesday evening. The installina- was R.W. Bro. T. A., Peterkin, Provincial Grand Master; who wd« 'assisted 'by other Grand. ' Lodge officers. An old resident of Wm. Thomas Baldwin, who passed away at the residence of .his son, William, at 'Richmond Grove, on Wednesday, at the a«e cf 83 tears, had seen long service in ■'■ he "British Arm v. He was n?«o in the Royal Navy for about fo'ur years. '...'■• ' * Mr J. W. Ranby, formerly of Masterton and the Forty-Mile Bush, but mow. of the Waikato, who met with - a terrible; accident seventeen months ago, by which he last the sight of both eyes, is at present on a visit to friends in this town. .Considering the experience through which he has passed, he looks remarkably well. ' Mrs Burton < (nee, Janet Hastie), formerly matron at the'Dunedin Hospital, died at her residence in Dunedin last week, a- the great age of 97 years. She was born in Lanarkshire, and arrived in> Dunedin in 1858/ After tlLe death of her /husband die entered the Dunedin/Hospital as nurse, and soon became matron. She had 2a years' honourable service in that .institution. From retirement to the end of her long life she'never ceased <to have a tender interest in the hospital.