PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 June 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs Martin Kennedy and the Misses Kennedy are .returning by the Remuera, which is due on Juno 23rd. Lord Islington, ex-Governor of Now Zealand, has, according to a London oable, been decorated with the Grand Cross of the* Order 6f 'St Michael and St. George,

The Rev. A, T. Thompson and Mr Jaraes McGregor 5e11.., leave Masterton this morning for (Jhrisfchurch, where they will represent' electorate at tho annual. No-license Convention, which opens to-morrow. At the monthly irieeting of tiie Masterton District High Sohool Committee last evening, Mr D. Threadwell was appointed to fill the vacancy on the committee, caused by the resignation of Mr J. A. Shackleton.

Miss H. J. Vine wa-s admitted by Judge Chap-nan on Tuesday ae a barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court at Wanganui. Miss Vine, who is the fii'st kdjr. lawyer, in Wanganui, is ail L.L.B.f of -the New' Zealand CnivW(Mty, win shortly'' be, sitting ; for h«r L.li^v;deg3ree;- ■; •/ ■ : Mr J3> A Shacileton has tendered his resignation as a member- of Masterton School Committee. At fast evening's meeting of the committee it was decided to place on record the committee 1 b apprefciation of the work done by Mr "Shackleton during his term of office.

With the death of Mr Thomas White Smith, wliich occurred at Inveroargill at the age of 91 years, there passed away one of the pioneers of Otago and Southland. Born at Leith, Scotland, in 1822, the deceased learned his trade* as a woolspinner, and worked at it till I'' when he took passage in the ship Strathfieldsay, and after a voyage of 110 days, arrived at Port' Ohalaiers.