PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 October 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The condition of Mrs Kjestrup, of Mauricetille, is causing her friends soma anxiety.

Sir William Hall-J ones, until recently High Commissioner, has been appointed a member, of the Legislative Cou>al.

Mr Oombs, teacher at the Mauricewile school, leaves on Saturday for .Wellington, where he will sit for another examination.

A quiet wedding was celebrated in the Lutheran Church at Mauriceville yesterday, when Mr C. Mascelle was married, to Mrs Jacobsen. Mr Bach performed the oeremony.

Mr George MacMorran, headmaster of the Terrace School, Wellington, lias been nominated by the South Teachers' Institute for the position of president of the New Zealand Educational Institute. Mr ,T. V. Caverhill, who has represented W. Dimock and Co., Ltd., in the Wairarapa district for the past two years, has resigned his appointment and joined the firm of W. and G. Turnbull and Co., Ltd., auctionjeers.

On last advices Mr and Mrs A. Seifert, formerly of Masterton, returned to London from a long motor tour of tha British Isles (more than 2000 miles) and had gone to the Continent for a few weeks before leaving for home, via America. Word was received at Waipukurau on Thursday night that "Barney" Ireland, the well-known pugilist, had met with an accident whilst out shooting/neai- Wallingford. No details of the accident were available, except that Mr Ireland had been shot in the foot.

On©' of the early settlers of Canterbury' passed away on Tuesday in .the person of Mr Francis D. S. Neave (says a Press Association message). Mir Neave was born in India 1 in 1842, was educated at Eton, and took his degree at Oxford in 1863, coming to Lyttelton in the following year in the ship Devonshire.

At the residence of Mr A. Gow, -railway i-tationmaster Featherston, on Tuesday, the wedding of Mr George Thomas Baker, son of Mr James Frederick Baker, of Christchurch, to Biss Bertllia Gibson, daughter of Mr Henry Gibson, of Kumara, was celebrated. The Rev. G. K; Stowell was the officiating minister. Mr H. H. Stewart acted as best man, and Miss Eunice Garland as bridesmaid. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr J r . G. Gibson. Following upon the wedding Breakfast at which the usual toasts were honoured, the newly wedded couple left for Pahiatua, en route for the West Coast of this Island and i Wellington, on their honeymoon torn*.