PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 December 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

~, Ifc.and Mrs J. Munro,,of Napier, are at present on a visit to .< Master-' ; ; ■;',:■ '::f: v sV^ v '-' '.\ '": The Hon, James Allen is in Dune* ' : idii^,yivhere he will -remain^-for about , a fortnight., j,7 Mr.and Mrs>. N. Burns left Car- %: terton yesterday morning to spend a ( holiday in Auckland. The Hons. W. Fraser and W. E Herries will spend the Christmas holidays in the Auckland province. .<■■ . Mr Alexander Kerr, a well-known Waitara-publican, died* on Saturday, aged 48 years. He had been ailing for some time past. The Mayor of Masterton (Mr J. M. '. Coradine) and Mrs Coradine leave today for Ashburton, where they intend spending a short holiday. Ma- Hugh Mo#rison, President of the Masterton branch of the Farmers' Union, proceeds to Wellington this morning on business * connected with , the strike. - . , Mr and Mrs O. Hall, of 'Dannevirke, who are on a visit to the Old Country < are at present staying with friends at Malton, in Yorkshire, Mr Hall's native place, which he has not seen for forty years. On Saturday a very pleasant wel- » ' come home was extended by the mem- '• hers of the Carterton Settlers' Club to Messrs T. E. Maunsell and 'J. L. Biundell, both of whom have receht- , ly returned from trips abroatL Mr George Innes, at present as-sistant-manager of the Bank of NewZealand at Auckland, and formerly of Pahiatua, has been appointed act-ing-manager of the bank during the absence in England of the manager, Mr H. BuckTeton. Messrs Frank Armstrong (Akitio) and A. G. Pilmer (Masterton) ml} k-- judge the competitions, hacks, and " harness horses at the Woodville show. Mr A. E; Booth, df Carterton, will judge the Jersey cattle,.and Mr E. :; Eagle, jun., the dairy cattle. Ik On Friday last a presentation was m- made by the Featherston railway staff ■ ■■-* to Mr A. C. Gow, stationmaster, who has been transferred td.Ngahauranga. A welcome was at''the same time extended WMr R.Kearney, who succeeds Mr Gow at Featherston. Mr Alex. McMinn, the well-known journalist formerly of Masterton, but ndw residing at Auckland, has re- | . ceived the news of the death of his ] ' brother, Mr Reginald Heben McMinn, which occurred suddenly at New York on November 6th. Deceased was the youngest son of the late Dr McMinn, I of Belfast, and was aged 64 years. * The death, occurred on Saturday afternoon of a higjhly-respected resident ' of Napier in- the person of Mr Hans X. Hansen in his-fifty-first year The late Mr Hansen was bolm. in Christiana, Norway, 'and went direct to Napier with his parents forty years , ago on December Ist, He had hv- ' ed in Napier ever since, and for eleven years before his death was m bnsinesgas a tailor, ' Mr Robert Somerville, an old resident of FeUding y died on Friday■ evenins aged* 65: • Mr Somerville was born in Edinburgh, and for some time was employed in his business of ship-building, but migrated to New Zealand thirty-iive years ago, settling WT in the. South Island, where he.con- • trolled the Geraldina to Mount Cook coach services', in those days a popn- * lar means of transit for the settlers on the route. , The\death is announced of Mr John *. . Bown, one of the oldest and most to- . ' spected of the early pioneers of the " r * Pelorns district, at tho advanced age : ''■% of 83 years. The late Mr Bown was ; %ie of the earliest settlers' in the ■ Felorus Valley, where he had" lived over .half a century. In 1864, the , year in which the Wfikamanna flsl rush broke out. he and a mate of his, • i- T nr>-v (Jbne ra-'i Mr Rutland and the late John Wilson close in claiming the Government bonus for the discovery of that goldfield. ?