PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 October 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr Martin Kennedy was a visitor to Masterton yesterday. Sir Walter Buchanan, M.P., paid a visit to Canterbury on Saturday last*. Messrs Allen and Alex. Carmichflelj of Invercargill, are at present oa a visit to Masterton. Mr Joseph L. Kimbeli, father of the Rev. Father Kimbeli, died at. , Wellington on Sunday at the age Qi seventy-two years. ' , Mr Smith, statipnmaster at th 3 Masterton railway station, from his annual leave to-day, and , sumes duty to-morrow. -. , It k stated that Mr W. H. Haw* kins, formerly of Pahiatua, will hj& a candidate for the New- Plymouth • seat at. the next election iri the Op«< • position interests. > • ' ■ The name of Dr Thomas MeKibbinj Hastings, is being mentioned as 9 probable candidate for the Hawke'a Bay iseat at the next general election in tile Opposition interests. At a, meeting of , the committee of the Masterton Competitions Society festerdayy Mr J. J. Kelliher, of-'; [a«tertoh, was appointed to the position of secretary of the iociety. • y Messrs A. and . J>- ColUe> -of. Mas- . terton; have received word ■>: of the death at Perth of their brother, William George. ■ The cleceased was forty-six years of age. Mr John;, Farrell, representing JV C, Williamson, Ltd., arrivedi yesterday to complete arrangements for the production of "The Quaker Girl" ra the Masterton Town Hall on Tueeda'ynext. (

Mr Robert Thornton has been appointed bridge overseer to the Akitio County Council, at a salary of £5 10s per week.; He will have -eole charge -S of the construction of the various ; bridges in-the county. It is expected that Mr J. Georgeson, who., leaves for Dunedin riexts week, will retain his position as Pre—ftidentv of the Wairarapa C^dimiait. Society until after the New Year's' Day sports. , ' ■ ■■ Mr H. C. Robinson, solicitor, of : - Masterton, had sufficiently recovered? from his recent severe' burning in* juries to leave the hospital and pro* ceed with his family to Wellington . yesterday.. >u -i. Mr J. M. Wilson, of the clerical ' staff of the Masterton railway sta» tion, has received notice.of his-trans* Ji^ar.Auckland,' Ms" . jj* a week's, time. * % ■ A . * • The death occurred at." Oriental.-' Bajr, Wellington, on, Saturday - ,n 8) of Mr Thomas S. aV'thd> aga! of eighty-three years. The dtf» ceased.; who had resided "in the "cits J<>l' half a century, leaves a ■ - « -\r'- 2'- ' ll^dotf'iflfljlfamily of seveif.

The oldestt active player of bowlfi itt N Zealand is (says the Now-'Zea* land' probably Mr Thomas Wylli^j'',?£( ;Papa|toetoe, who is 9?} i>f' i '^e.""A howling club ,waa foftnißd last year, end) s STr" 'Wyliie* has paid his eub'scriptio» for the season.' ' ' *

This death occurred at Washington TfllJcy, . Kelson, on Friday last, o£ Mrs Johnston, relict of the late Capf tain JTohn Johnston. The deceased! , arrived at ( Nelson, in 1851. One o| ! . her daughters is Mrs Harry of Masterton, and onO of her sonil Mr Lionel Johnston, of Martinbolt* ough. i ' • ■ "

On Monday afternoon the girls of the Paraparauinu State school gave a garden. party in the school grounds in .. honoiir ofn Miss Skelley, , assistant ,teachsr t who jg leaving to take up a position, at the Eketahuna school. At the clos'e ■of the afternoon tea, Miss Nannie. Maclean, on behalf of the girls' committee,, presented Miss gkelley with a beautiful and useful lady's Mridbag. Mr J. C. Bodding'ton has beorf * chairman of directors of the Mas- -: 1 terton Permanent Investment andl— : Building Society, for the last thirty, three,years. At the'annual meeting yesterday, eulogistic reference was made by shareholders to the goodi ' work done by Mr Boddington during the many years ,he has occupied tho chair, and the hope was expreseetl that he would long be spared to Elf tlie offic?.- i Gable advice was received in ' tertop Yesterday of the death of Mr Gwyfcne Williams, -a,'son of the late '1 Mr T. Ci Wtilliams, and -brother ■ol ' Messrs. Hugh, and EM Williams, of Masterton,. which occurred'in Loudon on Saturday last. The.deceased, who was about, forty years of age, was married, but leaves no family* He had formerly resided at Wellington, Masterton, Eketahuna, and Ohristchqrch. • His health had been failing for some time. ■ At a special meeting of the Central Committee of the Wairarapa Hospita* and Charitable' Aid Board; held in Masterton yesterday, Mr H. H. Keay (of Wellington) was appointed to the position of assistant health ins'pectdlv Mr Keay is a rtiarried man, thirtynine years of age, and has been resident' in New Zealand foj- two years. He holds the. certificate of the Royal - Sanitary Institute a« • inspector of nuisances, and for twelve years; acted as relieving . vaccination . office? under the Infant life Protection Act; -v ■'<* England. ■ Mr Keay will take un his new .position about -the end ..of., tho present month, and will resido , at" Gfreytown. : : ' i: ; Mrs Emma Wagboni, wife of the lat'e John Waghorn, of Carterton, died suddenly and peacefully at Lower .Hutt on October Ist, 1913, aged 74 years. Although she had been ailing for some time past, the end was not expected. She, with her husband, arrived in New Zealand some forty years ago, going to Carterton about thirty years ago, where she lived un« til four years 'ago. She then went >1 to live with her daughter, Mrs W. Booth, Lower Hutt, where she died.- - There are three eons and four daughters—Mrs ,Higgieon, Greytow.n, Mrs Booth, Lower - Hutt; Mrs R. Eagle, Otaki; Mr,s Eli Woodlev, Martinborough ; Mr J. Waghorn, Dannevroke ; Mr G. Waghorn, Masterton; and Mr J; Waghorn, Taihape. There are 1 several grandchildren and great* grandchildren.