PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mi', G. P. Donnelly has returned to his home at Hastings, after a trip through England and America. Mr I*. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, who presided at a sitting of the Council in Masterton on Wednesday, returned to Wellington yesterday. An old resident of Gisborne, in the person of Mr Walter Dickenson, died on Monday last. The deceased was in the employ of Meissrs Nelson Bros.for many years. The Very Rev. Dean. McKenna, of Masterton, and the Rev. Father T. McKenna, of Pahiaitua, have been elected vice-presidents of the Wellington Prdvincial Lawn Tennis Association. '

At a meeting of the Carterton Oddfellows Lodge on Wednesday night, at which the District Officers were present, Brp. Madley, on behalf of the Masterton Lodge, made a presentation of an enlarged framed photograph of P.G. Bro. Joseph Dixon, of Masterton, to the Corresponding Sectary, to be handed over to the Loyal Brittania Lodge, Wellington, in which lodge Bro. Dixon was initiated. Bro. Godber, amid applause, accepted the gift with thanks, and'was sure the members of the Brittania Lodge would be pleased to receive it.

A quiet wedding was celebrated in the Methodist Church, Carterton, on Wednesday, when Miss Alice Maiud Crawley, third daughter of Mr and Mrs John Crawley, of Carterton, was united with Mr Alfred Ernest Smith, of Carterton. The Rev. C. H. Standage performed the ceremony, which was fully choral. The bride was attired in a pretty gown of white Japanese silk with an overdress of ninon with oriental trimmings and hat to match. She carried a bouquet of friezias and maiden-hair fern, and was attended by liar cousin, Miss M. Donald, of Wellington, and her little niece, Miss Rita Kelly, of Palmerston North. Her- brother, Mr Rupert Crawley, gave her away, and Mr Tlios. King acted as best man. Mr W. Patterson, who some time ago sold his farrier's business in Martinborotugh and had purchased property near the racecourse, formerly owned by Mr J. McMaster, where he intends taking up dairying. Tk« death occurred at South Featherston on Wednesday, after a lengthy period of ill health, of Mr James Currie, mix old colonist; who for tho past four years had been residing in that district. The late Mr Ourrie was for a number of years in charge of the Manawatu Railway Company's workshops in Wellington. He leaves a widow and two sons (Messrs Robert and James Ourrie, of Petone and Wellington respectively) and two daughters (Mrs J. T. Bicknell, of Kahutara, and Miss Jessie Ourrie).