PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Frank Feist has been xe-eleet-ed Mayor of Carterton. A cable message received from Rome yesterday stated that His Holiness, the Pope was now convalescent. At a meeting of the Southland Presbytery, a call from the Bluff to th» Rev. E. Walker, of Ormond, was sustained/ Mr and Mrs W. M. Halley, of Palmerston North, are at present on a visit to Carterton. They will be at the Masterton races to-morrow. Mr William 'Moore has been. reelected unopposed to represent th© combined borough of Carterton an* Greytown on Xhe Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Mr J. Minifie, formerly of Masterton, who has taken up home mission work in connection with the Qisborne Methodist Church, entered upon his duties on Sunday last. At Saturday's meeting of the Wa~ nganui A. and P. Association, it was decided to send to the late President, Mr Fred. Moore, a letter of condolence in the death of his son-in-law, Mr E. W. Broad. Mr James Cottiss, formerly of Masterton and Maurioeville, who has been managing the Past Office Hotel :- quishing his position, and intends trying his luck in another district. ihe death! occurred at the Wellington Hospital on Monday of Mrs W." Marley (nee Miss 'Sarah Spackmali), who was a daughter of Mr George Spackman, of Bentley street, Masterton, and was well-known in this district. Deceased was thirtynine years of age. Mrs Band, wife of the vicar of St. Anciivw'y Uuircti, Martmoorougft, iias received news of the death of her father in Wanganui. Mr J. P. Lomax, formerly of Eketahiina, has been elected to the committor of the Feilding branch of the Fanners' Union. Messrs W. Nagel (Tawataiai), Anders Anderson (Ekbtahuna), and Scharenweber (Masterton), three of the earliest settkrs of the Forty-Mile Bush, leave this week on a visit to America and the Continent. They expect to be away several months. On Friday afternoon last Mr Mark Herbert way the recipient of a silver kettle from the employees of Messn, A. H. Herbert and Co.'s Alfredton branch, in view of his approaching marriage In the evening Mr Herbert was presented by his Alfredton friends with a substantial sum of money with which to purchase a present as a mementjo of the, occasion. On 'Mondav Mr Herbert was the recipient from the Eketalrana staff of Messrs A. H. Herbert and Co., Ltd., of a handsome liqeur stand. Mr S. Loritner, of the Pahiatua railway staff, has been transferred' to Masterion. He will be succeeded by .Mr Herman, of Wellington A Wellington telegram states that Sir James Carroll was taken to a private hospital' in the city yesterday, and now lies there seriously ill. At the meeting of the Masterton •Borough . Council, held Hast evening, it was" decided, on the motion of Or Donald, that the Council's appreciation of the services rendered by Cr. James Elliott during tth|e fourteen years he occupied a seat on the Council, and who does not intend offering himself for re-election. Several Councillors also spoke eulogisticallv of Or Donald's term as a Borough Councillor. The latter is aot offering himself for re-election owing to his intention of visiting the Old Country during the present year. On the motion of Cr Elliott a vote of sympathy with the Mayor (Mr JM. Coradine) in his present indisposition, was carried at last night's meeting of teh Masterton Borough Council, and the hope expressed that he would be able to occupy his old seat when the new council took up office. At the conclusion of the rehearsal by the Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society la>t night, Mr R. J. Young, on behalf of the members, presented Mr F. H. Elcoate and Miss Jago, who are prominent members of the Society, and who are being married today," with a. handsome Morris chair. Mr Elcoate suitably acknowledged tho sift. Mr Eilcoate'was also the recipient yesterday from the staff of tho Bank of New South Wales of a handsome silver egg cruet. The presentation was made by the manager of tho Bank, Mr E. P.'Mouiitfort. By the death of Mr' Thomas McGuinnesg there is removed a man who in his time was prominently identified with this settlement (says the Taranaki Herald). In his youth he served in the Royal Artillery, and in the (early 'fifties came to ,N\»w Plymouth, and for years was warder or orderly at the Old Colonial Hospital at To Hemii, under Dr Peter Wilson. During the Maori war he served in the Taranaki Rifle Volunteer Corps, in which he held an ensign's commission, and in. the Militia, in which he held the rank of lieutenant, lie was 8-5 years of age.