PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 September 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs John Hessey, of Masterton.will leave England on their Jgeturn to .New Zealand in November. % .io- seated that Mr I 'Robert B. Hornblpw, t of Mangaweka, will again be a candidate for the Oroua seat in. the Opposition interest. Mr C. Crflcjoft Wilson, who for ' some time has been Palmerstori N. | representative for the Wright, Stephenson Co., Ltd., Wellington has ! joined the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Cp.'e branch at Wanganui, „ Mr ..Walter J»mes son of one of the oldest settlers of Dannevirke, died on Friday last at the age of forty-four, years. I '"Colonel -Chaytor and Major Temperly, of the Defence Department, will visit the Wairarapa this week. . Mrs Baker-Gabb ,\ who is well-known in Masterton and- the Forty-Mile Bush, returns this week from a visit to England. " , Mr W. W. Gabifes, accountant of the Masterteh branch of the N.Z. Loan" iittd Mercantile. Agency Co., Ltd., lias-been promoted! to a position in the Invercargill branch of the company. Among the interested spectators at the representative football match in Masterton on Saturday last was Mr Frank D. Pelling, of Eketahuna. Mr Polling is president of the Bush Rugby Union, and a. vice-president of the N.Z. Rugby Union. He has been identified with the Rugby game for many years.' He played in the Wairarapa representative team against the Englishmen in 1887. -The Rev. Angus Mcßean,, of Eketahuna,, conducted home vices in connection with the Methodist Church at Martinborbugh yesterI day. ' On Thursday evening Messrs Boyes and 'Anderson, two old residents of Eketahuna, who ar© for other' districts, were entertained) by their I'riends at a dinner. The gathering was a large and representative and during the evening eulogistic references were made to the many good qualities of the guests. Both Mr Boyes and Mr Anderson suitably acknowledged the kindly sentiments expressed. A toast list was gone througb and generally those present spent an enjoyable evening. The Rev. C. J. Smith, who has been in charge of St. Peter's parish, Pahiaiua, for the past three months, is leaving in the course of a tew days. The new vicav, the.. Rev. C. H. Fenn, of. Wellington, is expected to take up his duties at the beginning cf next month. Another of the fast" diminishing barfcT of early settlers in HawEe's Bay died in Napier onJMday last, when Mr John Russell Duncan passed away at the ripe age of 89 after a few weeks' illness. The lute Mr Duncan came to New Zealand in the ship Northfleet in 1853, and learnt the business of sheepfarming with the late Mr Donald Gollan, at Mangatarata. Two years later he acquired Forest Gate station, which in those days was considered to be away back iin the wilds of Hawke's Bay, and from the station he made frequent trips to Wellington on liorsebacif. In 1867 Forest Gate was taken over by hie brother and sister, and he took up Tangoio station.