PERSONAL.

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

PERSONAL.

The Rev. T. Trestrail, ono time of Eketahuna, has been' appointed Methodist minister at Cambridge. Three candidates are offering themselves for the Mayoralty of Pahiatuai Messrs D. Crewe, J. Osborne-Lilly, and J. D. Wilson. J * Mr Leonard Houlbrooke, of Waterfalls, has announced his'intention-of becoming a candidate for the vacantt seat on the Masterton County Coun* cil. Mr K. J. McLennan, who has beeie on a-fcrip to the Old Country for the benefit of his health, is expected to return to Pahiatua during the present week. Mr Charles E. Daniell, of Master-. ton, will to-day be nominated for a> seat as representative of the Wairarapa district on the Wellintgon Hap* hour Board. Mr -N. Hubbard, of Masterton, ha* been appointed manager for thd Cement Pipe Ox, Ltd., at Hastings in succession to Mr W. Dixon, who 'has been transferred' to Waitara. Mr D. B. Clough, for some yeart vS ri c i ,stodi 1 ail of the Masterton IJVI.U.A., leaves Masterton this morning for Auckland, where he takes up the position of custodian of the Y.M.C.A. of that city. wi^w^ 6 was celebrated m Westminster Abbey on Saturday (says a cable), when £rd Salisbury's daughter, Beatrice was married to the Hon. William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, iheir to Baron Ha,«. The Killg and

at Carterton, and Mrs have been on a two-years'TS* +Z England and the Continent ™* * senger ? on the lonic, which STs dut to arrive at Wellington on April 15 lit oWmg rr Z° Countering held seas near Roharb> has B del ™™- and is now not expected at WelW. Mr William Sheddan, miller of Waiwera, died on Wednesday Ho Set S ° Uth distri <* The death of Mr Richard James .•volt-Tck, an old Westport resident, is announced by the local News Del crewed, who was 77 years of age was a native of London, and had resided tor about fifty years in New Zealand lor many years at Reefton. He left England for Australia in 18-53. Ore the voyage out the vessel was wrecked at Amsterdam Island, in the Inwan Ocean. After fourteen days, , --K'nt on tho i,-lnnd, the partv were r;:<-N:ed i;n by whalers and taken to Mauritius, where Mr Scoltoek got au Australmn-lxinnd vessel. He left Sydney'for Hokitika at the time of the great rush in 1865, and for some time followed goldamning in. NewZealard. For the lost three veara he had resided in Westport.. The Bruce Herald records the death' at Milton of Mr George Lindsay, in. his BSth year. He was the sole survivor of the origanal band of pioneers 'who settled on the Tokomairiro Plaint in the early 'fifties. The late MiLindsay was born in Glasgow in 1826 and arrived at Port Chalmers in the* Royal Albert in 1854. He settled on the eastern end of the Tokomairiro Plain, where the family have lived since. The death took place at Mcleod, Alberta, on March sth, of Sergt. John Ryan, one of the best-known veterans of the district, and a battle-scarred warrior of- 1 the British Army; Deceased, who- wa-s 86 years of age, had a- stirring life. He was a member of the famous 60th Rifles which served with Havelock through the Indian Mutiny, and he was in half a dozen o£ the fiercest engagements. He was in the force which marched t-> the relief of Delhi. For liis services in this memorable campaign, Mr Ryan received several medals and c.la.sps. Returning to England, lie afterwards enlisted witU the 40th Regiment, and again saw active secvice, going out to New Zealand tofight the Maoris. In" this campaign; he also did good work-, and proudly wore the trophies of rJie faithful soldier. Sergeant Rya-n went to Canada eariy in the 'eighties, and follow-, ed the.business of as rancher until his retirement. Whe» the Duke of Connaught visited Macleod he called" on Sergeaut Ryan «md chatted, with hi'A. about the wars fee had been in..