PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P., was a visitor to the Hukanui sports yesterday. Mr Elliott Grant, a Sydney and Hobart sportsman, is dead. Messrs. Laing Bros, leave Masterton to-day on their return to Scotland. Mr John Farrell was in Masterton yesterday making arrangements for the production of "Tho Blue Bird" ai. the Town Hall on the 18fch inst. A cable from Paris records th* deatli of M. Jean Coustaus, a wellknown French statesman, at the age of eighty years. A cable message from London states that Mr W. J. Holloway, an actor well known in Australia, is dead; aged 70 years. Two memJ>ers of the Ma&terton Fire Police (Lieutenant Braggins and Constable Sneld) have tendered their resignations. The former is leaving Masterton to enter into business on his own account in Palmerston North. A Melbourne cable announces tho death of the Hon. Sir Henry John Wrixon, at the age of 74. "The de-' ceased was President of the Legislative Council of Victoria since 1901". Mr J. E. Raison, of Greytown, was presented by the stewards of tb" South Wairarapa Trotting Club with a handsome silver teapot on the occasion of his marriage, and in recognition of the many valuable services rendered the Club. Mr N. Fulton, Government Dairy Instructor at Stratford, has been granted six months' leave of absence, and, accompanied by Mrs Fulton, will sail from Auckland for Vancouver on the Makura next Friday. He proposes making a brief stay in Canadr and visiting various parts of the States before going on to the British Isles. The many friends of Mr T. G. Mason, an erstwhile resident of Masterton, who is now in England, will be pleased to hear that he is in the best of health. He i s residing at Northfield, about seven miles from Birmingham. Mr Mason is very much impressed with the hard lot of the worker at Hsme, and although condition* have improved during the past year or two, he states that there is a still a. great deal of poverty to be seen. Mr Charles Peck, one of the oldest and best known engine drivers on the West Coast, died at hi s home in Cranford Street, Christchurch, on Saturday night. The'late Mr Peck, who drove the first train between' Greymouth and Hokitika, when that section of the railway was opened, retired from the service about twelve' months ago, and a short time ago took up his residence in Christchurch. The deatli took place on Tuesday night of Mrs Lavinia Fensham, wife of Mr John Fensham, of Richmond Road, Carterton. Deceased had been ailing for some time, and a cirsis tame on Saturday afternoon, from which she failed to rally. Mrs Fensham was an old and highly respected settler of Carterton, and her husband and family will have the sincere sympathy of their fellow settlers in their bereavement. The death occurred at Lyttelton on Monday of Mr William Burns, at the age of 76 years. He was born in Cork,.-Ireland, and in his youth journeyed to Melbourne, where he joined the schooner Planet. Mr Bums arrived at Lyttelton i;n> her in February, 1858, and for some time was engaged in the Lyttelton-Heathcote-Kaiapoi i trade. Subsequently he took up gold- | digging at Gabriel's Gully, at the time of the rush, and also at Ross, | on the West Coast.