PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Bruce Brown, of the staff of the Bank of New Zealand, Gisbbrne, son of Mr R. Brown, of Masterton, is at present on a visit to Masterton. The funeral of Simeon Tuke, the young native who died at Te Ore Ore last week, took place yesterday at the burying-ground near the Ruam£ hunga* river. There was a large following of native and European mourners, and the ceremony at the grave was performed) by the Rev. Father Do Lach". In an interval in the chess match in Masterton on Saturday might, mention was made of the loss ~that the club had sustained in the death of Mr James Brown, who for the last three years had held the office of patron to the Masterton Chess Club. The club placed on record its deep sympathy with Mrs Brown and family in their sad bereavement. Mr M. Evans, who has been asso-: ciated with the firm of Messrs A. H. Herbert and Co., Ltd., Eketahuna, for some time past/ was, -on Friday evening, tender concert by his friends prior lUifhis leaving for Wellington. During the evening Mr R. Burns, on behalf of those present, handed Mr Evans a silver-mounted pocket-wallet, as a mark of the esteem in which he was held. Mr F. Pirani, of Feilding, has been re-elected chairman of the Wanganui Education Board. The appointment of Lieutenant-Col-onel Gudgeon, formerly New Zealand Resident in the Cook Group, as Chief Judge of the Cook Islands Land Titles Court for a period of three months is gazetted . " : A Sydney cable states that Miss Greta Mills, daughter of Mr David Mills, manager of the' Union Steamship Company, was married to MiGeorge Ritchie, one of the Directors of the Company. ' » The Rev. Robert Wood, formerly of Masterton, at the request, of the Rev. Canon Garland, has agreed to devote\himself for a short period to the work of the Bible in State Schools League of New Zealand. The League has opened a branch office in Dunedin . Mr Wood will act as organising agent in Otago. | A very old resident of Wanganui, in the wife of Mr Gilbert Carson, passed away om Friday morning, at the age of 77 years. The deceased lady came out in one of the four vessels which brought settlers to Albert Land. She was married in 1866 at Auckland, thence going to Wellington. In 1874 the family went to Wanganui .