PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 June 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The dela'tih is'announced of Sergeant Beattie, of Taihape, after a long .illness, Mr Peter Eadie, the "übiquitous" of the N.Z. Farmer, is at present in liafiterton. ; Sir Henry Kimber, Unionist M.P. for Wandsworth. since 1885, has resigned owing to ill-health. Mr Maurice Nathan, a well-known Wellington boriiface, was on a visit to . Masterton yesterday. Miss Ethel Johnson has sufficiently recovered from her illness to be able return to 'her home in MasterttfQ-

jSir Benniker Heaton,who ra on a . tiarip to the colonies, arrived „ f' afc* yesterday, in company ".■■■h^-'fomhy.. 7 V"' r . "'.y-X''. '.■'■■■■ - - 'Mr Atnelius. Smith, "secretary 'of the Superannuation Board, and Dr R. . Ftardjr, of the Income _Ta x Department, are about to retire on superannuation.

Captain Ernest Gaunt, R.N., a son ■ of £hs late Judge Gaunt, of Meli<mrne, haa beenappointed an aide-de-oaajpto the King. ' . i A Wang&nui ,telegram states that Mr G. A. Mci Donald, of Westport, has been appointed engineer to the l GonvjfflpTown Board. ; Mr 0. J. K4nt-Johnston, of Parnell, and formerly \of JjEasterton and Featherston, has been appointed to ilu» position of Town Clark at Fozton ■ from fifty-nine applicants for the V position. At a meeting of the Southland Presbytery last night, a call, from Te Awamutu to the Rev. J. D. Shaw, of Lumsden, was sustained, and the re- ; T cipient indicated his intention to accept. The death is announced of Mr

Charles Collis, chairman of the Kairongo County Council, at the age of 74. The deceased gentleman arrived iaNew Zealand in 1841, and sot'tlod in the Manawatui district 35 years , ago. He had a long and honourable . connection with local bodies.

A Hastings telegram states that

•, "Thomas Groome, aged about forty-five years, eldest son of Mr M. , a well-known sheepfarmer, of Te Oftepu a tation, Hawke's Bay, dropped > ! t i dead yesterday morning. Deceased Md been"attended for heart disease. The Hon. E. Mitchelson, of Auckland, is making a good recovery from

the effects of the serious accident which befell ' him at Takapuna in. March last, and he contemplates leaving on a visit to Queensland during . the present week for the purpose of farther recruiting his health. ' Mr T. W. licMaster, late of the Masterton G.P.0., has been appointed . officer iti charge of the wireless installation on the Union. Company's , steamer Manuka. Mr McMaster left

Masterton only a few weeks back, and

■ it speaks well for his ability that he should receive an appointment after so short a period of training as a wirie>r . les9 operator.

] Mr B. O. Turner, of the Greytpwn «f the Bank of New Zealand, who is well known in Masterton, has received notice of his transference to the Wellington office. He will first, however,, spend a month's holiday at Botorua.' Mr Turner will be succeeded to Mr J. F. Baini, from Foxton. f ■