PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The death is a,nnau:nee<l by cable of tho Bishop of Lichfield. Mr Mark Rutherford, late Assist- .. ant Director of Contracts in the Admiralty, aoid a well-known author (William Hale White) is dead. Mr E. A. Ransom, brother of Mr " W. Ransom, of Pahiatua, has consented to again contest the DatnaeTirke Mayoralty. Mr Cecil Kebbell, of Alfredton. will leave New Zealand for the Old Country in the course of a few days. Mr M. Myers, 'barrister and solicitor, of Wellington, will appear for the defendant in the libel case to be '.heard in Masterton this week. Miss S. Bopm-ood, well-known in Oarterton. and one time resident of was tihe recipient of ,a handsome hot wiater kettle and .•spirit stove from the members of th<_ *3u7>*-sreet Ohuroh CEToir, Palmerston iNiorth, Inst week. Miss Hopwo'Ofl i« shortly to fee married to Mr A. D. H. Worboys, of Palmerston North'. A quiet wedding w<as salemuieed at the residence of Mrs J. Ajstwood,. Lansdowne, on Saturday last, the contracting T)arties being Miss Theresa " Ouinn, tliird danghter of Mr T). Ouinn.bf ar id Mr Clarence Griffiths, of. Miss 'Ter- ,• rtohleiij. ■'La.msdown'e, attended the lu-ida 'ivho was attired in a navy blue u ailor-nrade costume. The bride, was . riven away by Mr I. Le>3. whilst Mr ■ "Eli Astwood officiated as best man. • The Rev. Serpell conducted the wedding ceremony. A reception wa.s held afterwards, the health of the hnopy couple being proposed by the Rev. Serpell and' rcenonded to- bv the bridegroom. Mr and Mrs Griffiths left by '■ th*v afternoon train for Wellinsrton. w»p>re the honeymoon will be «*w»+.. a"d lat-Ar wiM oroceed to Arickla.nd, where their future home will be.