PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr W. Aitchison has returned t MaartinbQrougjh after W six months: trip tiai ■ ■■'■'■ Mr F. S. Hunt, of Shannon, wi! succeed Mr S. Wright as stationma* ter at Carterton...' r Mr; Wright w r leave for Waipiifcur.au on Monda, week. Mr H. D. Bedford, M.A., is to dt liver a series of addresses in Niapier at the end of this week on the No license question. Mr W. T. loang has been appoint ed National President and Mr t Dowgray National Vice-President c. .the Social Democratic party. The Prime Minister is suffering from a slightly sprained ankle, sustained the injury while descending the steps at his residence. The Rev. Cecil Smith, .late of Otaki, has been appointed, by the Bir : shop>f,WeJJingit(in to take charge,-br\' the Pahiatua jtagjican parish .tern-" porarily. ';' 1 ' -.' ' A Press Association telegram from Greymouth recordg the death of Mr P. N. Griff en, a very old colonist. Deceased came to Otago in. 1860, and took part in the Denniston riteh. He arrived in Greymouth in 1565, and established a business, since known as Griffen and SmMi, wholesale merchants. Mr J. B. EniTnett, the popular secretary of the Masterion A. and P. Association, who recently joined the ranks of the Benedicts, was entertained by a number of friends in the A. and P. rooms last evening, and presented with two handsome. Morris 'ehiXrs.* ;"A number of .laudatory' speechep were made, and the haalth of. Mr -and, Mrs Emmett was drunk in .bumpers. - v Mr. Emm'et/t suitably acknowledged, the. present.,, . '' > Mr' Jaones Bernard,, a resident ;' of Welhngton for the past 44 yeara, for 37 of which he lived in-Dan-el Street, died yesterday morning. Deceased was born in.'Cheltenham, Glc'Uces.tershire, 80 years.ago last May, and had teen • married nearly 50 years. He came of an old naval family, and always took an interest in marine matr ters. The death is announced at Christen arch of Mr J. D. Fraaer, who- for many years had charge of the postage stamps and registration branch of the Ghristelntrch Post Office. On liis retirement fio-n the service he took up his residence in Christoh'urch. Four or five weeks ago he was .seiz- ■ ed with paralysis, and died on TnTOsday;. "*' Mr J," Thomson, auctioneer for the Wairanapa for Messrs Dalgety and Co., who has had bis headquarters at Mastertou, and who has been transferred to the Dannevirke branch, was tendered a: "send-off" at tlie Commercial Hotel at Pahiatua on Tuesday evening, Mr A. McFarlano presided over a representative gathering #f the farming community, and members of stock auctioneering firms. Mr Thoavson, wilio has been very popular with tlie settlors, was presented with a caso of pipes, and hearty good wi«hos for his futuro success word expressed by Mossm W. J. Collins (Messrs Ahmhoin and Williams), W. ]). Cowio (Loan and Mercantile Co.) and 1), O'Brien*