PERSONAL

Evening Star, Volume 12653, Issue 12653, 6 November 1905, Page 4

PERSONAL

At the Caversham Baptist Church ksi evening the following resolution was passed by a standing vote:—"That having heard with the deepest sorrow of twe death in India of Dr Newcome, of the Chandpore Baptist Mission, we desire to place on reCord our sense of the high value of his services to our medical mission, and we grieve over the valuable life thus cut short We express to Mr and Mrs Driver and all the members of Uhe family our tenderast erympathy with them in their sorrow. And to our own Dr North and the Miaaionary Committee we ask permission to offer our wannest condolence*, and our prayer to God that light and leading may come to them in their perpiexity." The Rev. W. Hewiteon and Mrs H«wit> son arc spending a few days at Moeraki prior to coming on to..Dunedin. At the usual meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers on November 3 Mr George Applegarth (who has been promoted to workshop foreman at Petane) waa presented witih a gold Maltese cross, suitably inscribed, and a pocket book. The president (Mr J. M'Dougal), in a neat and haspy speech, said that the members could not allow Mr Applegarrii to depart without recognising in some small way tho keen interest which he had always taken in the society, and the energetic manner in winch he had carried out feue duties of secretary during tho four years he had he-d that office. While congratalating him on his promotion, they were very sorry to part with him, and hoped he would prosper in Ids acw sphere. Mt Applogarw, in replying, tihanked the members for their good wishes and handsome gifts. It had always been a labor of love, and he had tried to do his best, and wae pleased to know that he had the esteem of tho members on resigning office. Mrs William Duff, who died at WaAola. on Saturday, is another of the fast disappearing band of Lairigers who constituted tho early pilgrims of Otago. She was u native of Gateside, West Lothian, Scotland, and arrived' with her husband and family on April 15, 1848. They originally settled at Green Island, but returned to Waihola at the back end of the sixties. Mia Duff had a family of nine, of whom six were bom in this colony.