PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 20 October 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A London cable announces thcj death of Dinizulu, ex-King of Zulu* land. His Lordship Bishop Sprott held a confirmation service at Carteiton yesterday. A London cable announces tba death of Sir George Wombell, a Cri* mean veteran. Sir Walter Buchanan, M.P., is at! present the Nestor of the House c£ Representatives. Major Colvin, editor of the Wag Cry, conducted the Salvation Armjj ■services in Masterton yesterday. Mr J. Crawford, formerly a hjmqf missionary in the district, is at pre* sent on a visit to the Wairarapa. A Capetown cable states that thct British Parliamentary party, whichf recently visited New Zealand) has ar« rived at Durban. Mr W. J. Orr, of Woodville, has been appointed in Eketahuna for Messrs Abraham ami Williams, Ltd. The death occurred on Friday last, at the age of eighty years, of Mrs Yickerstaffe, one of the oldest settlers of Carterton. Mr and Mrs B. Stan den, of - Carterton, are making satisfactory progress from the effects of an accil«trfe that they recently sustained . Mr J. Wintringham leaves Eketa* lnma on October 31st for Daunevirke, where he will act as buyeiy for the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company. Claus Peter Mai, a native of Deu* mark, who came to the Wairarapa in the year 1871, died suddenly in Pal-* merston North on Thursday fro'ii heart disease. At the meeting of the Professorial Board of the University of Otago, held on Saturday, Mr.H. W. Slater*, was unanimously elected as the local candidate for the Rhodes scholarshipMr Fred. Wise, of Eketahuna, visited Masterton last week to* pu*li the claims of the company that it is proposed to establish to run a motot ■service between Eketahuna and Poth garoa. The friends bf ! Mi<s"s Jfessie Scott, who has been a patient in the Mas-* terton Hospital for some time, will be pleased to hear that she has im* proved greatly in health, and was able to return to -her home at TeJ I'arae, last week. The Rev. J. W. Burton, formerly of Masterton,. has be>en invited to tinue as the New! ■ r Plymouth Methodists.; :fgr . another year. The Rev. E. Bandy (Strata 1 ford) has been invited to continue as second minister, and the Rev, H. T# Read as third minister. A Gore telegram states that M* Samuel White, a pioneer, and a welj; known farmer, dieS on Friday nigh feat Wakaka Valley at the age of 7® years. Deceased was a prominent : member of the Gore A .and P. Association, and a frequent exhibitor.: He arrived in the Dominion'in 1863. He leaves a widow, three sons (two married), and five daughters (two married).