PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Rev W. J. Cowrie, of Wellington, will be a visitor to Masterton to- . day. Sir J. W. Tavener, Agent-General for Victoria, has had tlie order of K.€,M.G\ conferred upon him, ""Mr and Mrs D. iCa&dberg returned toMasierton last ftveninct from a trip to M# Cook and other parts of the South Island. Mr J. E. 0. Aplin has been appointed caretaker to the Wairarapa P. and A. Society's grounds at Carterton. . Mr Fred Cassin. one of the- promoters of the Mangaone Oilwells, Ltd and until recently Managing Director of the Company, was a visitor to Masterton yesterday.: A Sydney cable, received last night, stated the new Governor of New South. Wales (Sir Gerald Strickland), with Lady Strickland, a.rrived yesterday, and was given an enthus-

, la&tic welcome. A complimentary banquet was ten- •; dered to the Hon/R. Heatca-Rhodes, T>y hiskiconstituents of Ellesmere, at • Lincoljr last evening. The proceedings were marked by the greatest enthusiasm. The Hon. James Allen, New Zealand Minister of Defence, returns to Is T ew Zealand by the Vancouver route, travelling in R.M.S. Makura. He will arrive early in June. Norman. tßewley, whose leg Wfl<§ amputated at New _ Plymouth on T-hufS'dity nigltV A-s the result 'of a accident, died; yesterday morn- ... ing. H© was aged about 22 years» fljtid was a brother to Mr Ailstjih Bewley. at one time iresident llasterton. ; '._ Lieut-Oolonel Fisher, chief secre- j tary of the Salvation Army in New 1 Zealand, received a cablegram from <London on Thursday stating that he is shortly to be transfer rod to another 'branch of tlie work. A Press Association telegram from Hokitika records the death of Mf •Tohix Forster, at the age of ninety* «fio. Mr Forster way a bootmaker W trade, but followed gold mining for many years, being among the the Gabriel's Gully '(Ot•Sgo) aord Westland fields. Mr Norman Warren, of the staff , f'f John Fuller and Sons, died at :• Wellington Hospital on Thursday. S : leaves a widow and two £'■ children. Prior to going to ' , Welliinorton Mr Warren was in charge of the firm's l business at Waihi. The Temains are to be sent to Auckland for interment. M-JJiP Methodist OK"'Vh at 'Cnron Thursday, Miss Evelyn .Alice, second daughter of Mr W. W. Mansfield, was married to Mr Leonard S. R. King. £.?cond son of Mr D. T. Tving."Vif Carterton. The bridesmaids "-OTP Misses Annie and Pearl Mansfield. and Miss Tw Kng. Mir T S. Hunter, of Wellington, was best man.