PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr John Payne, M.P., is on a business visit to Masterton. * ■ Mr R. Gray has been re-elected chairman of the ground committee-of the Masterton: A. and P. Association. A Press Association message from Hastings announces the death of Mr C. B. Hoadley, a well-known identity, aged 66 years. Mr J. S. Webber, who has been in charge of the Presbyterian Church at Eketahuna; lias received notice of transfer to Denis ton. The Hon. W. Fraser, Minister for Public Works, arrived at Stratford) on Thursday night, and proceeded to Whangamomona, the present end of the opened way on the Stratford Main Trunk railway line. Friday morning the railway works were inspected. In the afternoon he received numerous deputations, asking for grants to improve the road access. He was banquetted in the evening, when there was a big attendance from all parts of the district.

A Paris cable states that Maxim Gorky, the Russian novelist, is lying in a serious condition at Capri, in Italy. He is suffering from consumption. Maxim Gorky was born at Nigin Novgorod in. 1868. . He was successively a painter of ikons, a pedldler, scullery-boy, gardener, "watchman, and baker's apprentice. The Hawera Star reports that a very old Taranaki settler passed away at Hawera on Sunday in tfie person of Mr F. M. Chapman. Mr Chapman was born on April "2nd,"1834,/at Edenham, Lincolnshire, England'. He was the son of the Rev. William Emerson Chapman, rector-of Edenham, Lincolnshire. In 1849 he arrived in New Plymouth by the ship Cornwall. He settled in Hawke's Bay in 1851, and for' many years was engaged in sheep-farming. The wedding was celebrated at Dannevirke on Tuesday * last of Mr Francis Pedersen, manager of the Taratahi dairy factory, and formerly of Dannevirke, to Miss Ada Gibbs. The ceremony was conducted at the residence of the bride's parents by the Rev. Father Tymons, and the young couple left for their home at Clareville by the evening train. On their arrival they were entertained «*ight royally by the Clareville residents in* the Clareville Hall, where Mr R. "Seymour proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom in an appropriate speech. The toast was honoured in brimming bumpers. Mr W. Fisher, on behalf of the assembly, presented Mr and MrR Pedersen with a handsome marble clock, expressing the wish that Mr and Mrs Pedersen would spend many years among them.

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