PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 October 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Sir WaJftdV Buchanan afid Messt* G. Hunt©! 1 and 1 G. B>. Sykee, were visitors to th« Gartertofc show yesterday. Mr ft. Item ball, of MasterioD* has consented to resuflfte the secw taryship of thb' Wairarapa Cricket Association. Mr J, Giffordy. of- the Railway Department, and only son of Mr J. A* Gifford, of Eketahuoa, was married at Petone on Wednesday to Miss Cargill, daughter of old* and respected residents of Petonet* Mr Horace Griffith; who has a»fced as auctioneer and' afeent in Eketahuna for several years for the Net* Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., has been prffcrroted to the charge of the firm's Patfi&tua branch, for which place he leaved next week. Dr McAdam, for mafcy years tf councillor, and twice May-or of Oamaru, died rather suddenly, on Thura* day, Bays a Press Association telegram. He had 1 been in ilUhfealth for time. He wasi hel& in high esteem by the people. Mr P. H. Smith, M.P. for Waitakf, liasi intimated through the loffial press that he does not intend to re*&pntesfr the 1 Waataki seat at next election, says- ai Press Association teiegram from' Waimate. A requisition is being; largely signed asking iMr Jsortoa Francis to stand for the seat. Wcft*ll,haiß» been received in I&etahuna, (says> the Express) of the dieath. at Vancouver of Mr W. J. Pendtay, brother' affth© He v. Pendray, formerly of that town. Mr Pendray jgucf a visit tfeo Eketahuna some eighteen months : agtf) An accident, the MB of some' pipes-,, was the cause of death. Mr H. 1 Gave;, of Newman, who f&r some time past Has been the Wairfcrapa buye?;' fbn tlbe Wolodville Baoott Company, has been appointed buyer for the saftlie company in the Waikato districtHb' leaves almost im« mediately for Hamilton, which placet will be,his haaSijpnarfcers, Mr H. BSjQave will fill' the' loeal vacancy.