PERSONAL.

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

PERSONAL.

'Mr and Mrs Wills leave Woodville to-day on a trip to the Old Country. The health of Sir William Eussell is reported to be improving. Mr Knowles,' of the Timatu staff of Messrs Dalgety and Co., has been transferred to Masterton. -Ji Mr James Knox, a pioneer of the feimboltott district, died on, Tuesday at the age-bf jf ; f Mr H. Woolyeh, of. Masterton, will act as referee at the Masterton GunClub's clay pigeon match this affceVnoon. "'.'V a ■..'■".,'*","■:" '■;'■'' ";■'' ■'-_ Mr. W. Gabites, of the Mas'terton staff of the N..Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., is on a visit to Wanganui.' : '.' ■. •.'.;.:,v-■■'.■. : ;:.«;•>,.-■*-.-.'. -Mr W. Bowater, .ctf; lining, wffq js representing the firtri of (J. If>§caJes and Co., of Wellington, is; at.present in Mastertbri.' , v p. \- f -Mr J. £&. Macdonald. of Levin,- who has been in an indifferent state of health, due to an attack- of gastritis, has left for Sydney. He will be jw*e-y sent at the A.J.Q. meeting. • ' .'Mr E.. T/Ballfy;'Who has been relieving 1 Mr J. Masterton agent of Department, while the lattel; has been on iurlougji, proceeded to Napier on Tuesday. * Mr B: W. Shallorass, of Wellington, welMcnown for some years in cyclingi running and athletic, circles, generally, was«yesterday appointed secretary of the New Zealand Sports Protection Leagfue, {in. succession to Mr A. A; Paape. - Another pioneer in the person of Mrs Alice Ann Marshall passed away at her residence, Bunnythorpe, on Monday. The deceased, "who wadfetn her seventy-seventh year, was "ihe relief of the late Mr\Richard -Marshall, an early Taranaki settler. Yff

The many friends of Mrs Boyle,<{f Gladstone, will regret to hear that her health has not: been good. ,for some time. She was to have rtakeha trip to Melbourne by v the/. Manuka ,on Thursday, but she is now unable to Mr McKendrick, who about a year ago came out from. Glasgow, in to conduct a mission a*6 Auckland,' in connection with the Presbyterian Church, intends holding a mission in the :Wairarapa, commencing at Martinborough on the sth'of October^ On Tuesday afternokm., Mr Harry Abbott, of Carterton, was admitted to the' South Wairarapa HospitaL Some time ago Mr Abbott sustained a knock on the shiu, and the wound has never healed. It has been found necessary to open the leg and scrape the botne.*

Mr Gerald Deidrich, of Hokitika, died at Palmerston North yesterday, after'an operation for appendicitis. Ho'was on his honeymoon trip with his bride, and intended leaving for Sydney by to-morrow's boat. The death otocurred at Blenheim on Saturday, of Mr Charles o,'SulHvan, a resident of Tua Marina of long standing at the age of 75 years. He was born at Blackrock, Cork, Ireland, in 1838, and after serving in the navy, arrived in Nelson in 1863. He was one of the pilgrims of the Gabriel's Gully rush".