PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 October 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sir Joseph Walton, of the British House of Conrnons, is at piesent in Wellington. The death is announcod from Dargaville of Mrs A. P. Smith, sister of the Hon. E. 'Mitchelso&i. Mr Peter Harrison has returned to Master ton after spending about a month in the Wangantii district. The Matoura' Presbytery yesterday nominated the Rov. J. Grant, of Dannevirke, to be moderator of the next General Assembly. Mr J. Cooper, President of the Sheep-Shearers' Association, is at present organising the shearers in the Poverty Bay district. 'Mr A. P. Dry den, Chief Postmaster, of Wellington, proceeds to Pongaroa on Friday to discuss thq question of mail routes. Mr James McKendrick, a Scottish evangelist, is at present conducting a ten-days' mission in connection with the Presbyterian Church at Martinborougji. At last night's meeting of the Masterton Borough Council, Mr A. D. Gillies, manager of the Borough Abattoirs, was granted leave of absence' for tiwo weeks. The death is announced from Hokitika 'of Mr William Duncan, a prominent townsman, at the age of 72 years. He was agent for the Public Trustee, Deputy Official Assignee, and manager of the Savings B^nk.

Mr C. F. Hill, for some years stationmaster at Masterton, but now of Hawera, is resigning from tlio service at the end of the present month, in order to enter into private business. Mr Hill has been in the Department for,thirty years. A London correspondent says: Mr V. E. Maunsell (Carterton), who is here in the interests of a New Zealand invention (a patent motor car wheel), came by way of Canada, and will leave for home on October 10th by the Orama. x The following have been elected an executive for the New Zealand Political Reform League : Mrs C. Earle, Mrs R. Barker Haslam, Messrs Macgregor, H. F. Von Haast, D. H. Guthrie, R. Scott, E. W. Alisdn, W. H. D. Bell, M.P., H., D. Ackland, E. H. Williams, C. B. Morison, E. C. Huie, Ferguson,' M. A. Clark, and Sir Walter Buchanan.

The death of Lady Alicia Blackwood recently removed almost the last of the devoted women who placed themselves at the disposal of Florence Nightingale during the 'Crimean War, saya the "Nursing-Mirror." Nearly sixty years ago, in December, 1854, Lady Alicia Blackwood, accompanied by her husband, who was an army chaplain, arrived at Scutari with two young Swedish ladies named Almroth —one of whom became subsequently the mother of Sir Almroth Wright—and addressed herself to the task of organising a hospital for the wives of the soldiers whom she found herded together in a basement of the barracks hospital.