PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 May 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The term of Mr Joseph Dawson, a Goveiinnnent nominee on the Wellington Land Board, expires next month. iMr W. H. Sty oh., formerly of Masterton, is to l>e ordained as a deacon .by the Bishop of Nelson on June 29tli. , The friends of Mr F. H. Eiconte will he pleased , to learn that, he re<rairied consciousness last nigfrt, and showed signs of improyement. r nie death is Announced at Grey- - mouth of Mrs Gus aged 70 years. She had resided in Greymouth since 1864. Mr James Taylor, of Dyerville, has been appointed by the Featherston Qounty Council to fill the vacancy on iJie Dry River Water Race Committee, caused bv the .resignation of Mr W. Chapman. > Mr Jabez Oiapman, sern*., who was born in London fin 1827, and arrived in New Zealand with "his family forty years ago, died at the residence of his daughter (Mrs George Petherick)' in Wellington yesterday morning. r Mr H. T. Ellingham, the Crown tenants' representative on the Wellington Laooid. Board, who is . seeking re-olection, was a visitor to Masterton yesterday. / :Last week Mr; El- : lingham paid a flying visit to Martimiborough. Colonel Alexander Crowe; formerly of the New Zealand Defence' Force, died at the residence of his daughter in Wellington on .Stundlay night, _at the age of eighty-eight years. He in possession of the New Zealand war medal and the Imperial Volunteer decoration. , The death occurred at Paeroa, Auckland idastrict, last week, of -Mr ■ Thomias Clarke, a former resident of Mangatainoka. The deceased, w'ho was one of the original shareholders of the North Island Brewery, had .reached the age of 59 years. v Three sons and three daughters are left to *m>urn their loss. "Mr T. Clarke, an employee of the Paihiatua Borough Council, is ia: son of deceased.