PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr D. MoDonald v who has been manager of the Tikitapu station, Mauriceville, for some months past, has accepted a position as private secretary to Mr Ernest Short,. Feilding. Mr will leave for Feilding at an early date.

The death occurred at Gladstone at an early hour yesterday morning of a half-caste Maori named Peter Cowan. The deceased, who was a son of Mra George Ellers, of Masterton, was well known in local football circles, having previously represented Wairarapa. An inquest will be held this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. ' A wedding which was of considerable local interest was solemnised at Castlepoint on , Wednesday last, at-the residence of Mt A. B. Nicholls, when Miss Henrietta Flood, second daughters of Mr O. Flood, erf Ihiblin,. Ireland, was married to Mr Austin E. Nicholls, of Oaatlepoint. , 1 The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. Hands, of Tinui, The bride, who wo given away by Mr E. H. Field, of Oastlepoint, was attended by the Misses Nicholls, sisters of the bridegroom. The bridegroom's present to the bridesmaids were valuable gold brooches. After the wedding breakfast the happy oouple left for Westport, where the honeymoon is to be spent. Jfetrs J. \pick, wife of Mr James Dick, a well-known and higbly-re-speoted settler in the Ngaturi district; vrae found drowned in ,the Tiraumea river early yesterday morning.' She had not been in good health lately, and passed a restless might About 12.30 a.m. Mr Dick procured her some etimulent; - He discovered shortly afterwards that she had disappeared. He immediately made a search, but it was not untdl after day-break that her body was found in a hole-in the river. The little' Maori gW who died at Carterton on Sunday last 1 was a daughter, of tie late Mr Sam Patangaroa, who lost his life in a boating accident at Aohonga some months ago. )