PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 July 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr 0. M. Sheldon, author of a book called "In His Steps," is to pay the Dominion a next year. Mr T. N. Brodrick, Commissioner of Crown Lands, was a visitor to Mast&rtoa yesterday. , .. Mr Peter Gordon haa been nominat ed. for the position of President of tne Masterton Bering CM? in % ensuing year. , Mr W. Nicholson, of the tori' office of the . Department, has been appainted Town Cierk of the r Lower Hutt Borough, from thirty-nine applicants.—Press Association. Mr Arthur -Low, who has been in the employ of Messrs W. F. Short and Co., Ltd., of Wellington, for about twenty years, died suddenly yesterday morning. • The Canterbury College Board of Governors yesterday granted Registrar George H. Mbson three months' leaver of abseaice to accompany the New Zealand football team to America as manager.—Press Association. Mr N. Wililams, formerly of this town, who has been tranßferrted from Waihi to the Mast-erton Poet Office, took up his duties locally last week. The Balclutha Free Pre§s states-' that the Rev. W._ Greenslade, who has been Methodist, pastor in Balclutha for nearly three years, hasaccepted a call from the Methodist congregation of Morningtoh, Dunedin. ' _ ... ' >lt has been definitely decided t&at the consecration of the Very Rev. Dean O'Shea, S.M., as CoadjutorArchbishop of Wellington, will take, place on Sunday, 17th August/ in the' Basilica, Wellington. A Dunedin telegram records th death of Mr Walter Hislop, for many years manager of the Perpetual Trustees and Executors Agency, and brother of the Hon. T. W. Hislop, of Wellington. j Dr Edward Goss, head of the Gov- ; ernment Laboratory at Portland, ] Oregon, will shortly sail for Austra- i lia and New Zealand. >..! :. The death is announced at Hawera i of an old colonist, Mr James Wil- . liamson, who saw stirring times, rle arrived in the Dominion 62 years ago, Sforty of which he spent principally ] in- farming at Kakaramea. The Feildmg Star of yesterday says: There pass«>B away at his farm "Bordersdde," Parawanui, last night, William Brookie, one of the-pioneers of this coast, at the ripe old age of 93 years. Mr Brookie leaves three sons (one being Mr William Brookie, < of Sandon), four daughters, and aiunierous grandchildren to mourn the loss of one of the grand old settlers who did so much to make this coast a place of residence for thousands. The funeral took place on Sunday at the Karori Cemetery, of Mrs A. A. C. Pilmer. The service at the graveside was conducted hy the Rev. A. M. Johnson. The lady was the wife of the late-Captain A. A. C. Pilmer, of the Forest Rangers. Mrs Pilmer came to New Zealand with her husband in the late 'fifties, and lived for a number of years in Dunedin, where her husband carried out some extensive reclamation works for the city. Later, Captain Pilmer removed to Wellington where he built the first Bank of New Zealand offices. Subsequently, the family removed to Western Australia, .vjhere Captain Pilmer assisted in the .building of the Coolgardie railway.) Mrs Pilmer returned to New Zealand after her husband's death. She leaves three daughters and four sons, Mr A. G. Pilmer, of Masterton, Mr W. C. Pilmer, of Gisborne, and Mr D. Pilmer, of Blenheim, being resident in New Zealand. Mr S. Tansley, Clerk of the Court at Dannevirke, has received notice of his retirement. He has been thirtyfive years in the service. A cable from London this morning records the death of the Rev., Dr. 'Rosa, a well-known Presbyterian Minister. The death is announced hy cable of George Thomas, aged 77. He was a veteran of the Fifty-Seventh Foot Regiment, and fought in the Crimea, Indian Mutiny, and Maori War. He formed one of the "Forlorn Hope," numbering 400, who werei captured at Redan. Of these, 130 were killed and 170 wounded. Of the others captured, only thirty struggled back, of whom Thomas was one.