PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 14531, 6 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL

The Dunedin Presbytery this morning resolved to offer to Captain William Thomeon, of Port Chalmers, J heir hearty con<rrjvtiila.tioii6 upon the attainment- of his fiftieth year of service as an elder in the congregation of Port Chalmers. It was also resolved that a deputation, consisting of the Revs. J. Chi.shobn and A. Whvte ai'd Captain M'Callum, wait on Captain Thomson and convey to him the congratulations of the Presbytery. It was mentioned that in the first record of the congregation alter its disjunction from the' First Church of Ota go the. name of Captain Thomson was reiawed to in connection with his election to tho offico of deacon.

An Auckland message states that Dr John Henry Hooper, aged seventy-six, died suddenly this morning as tho result of a heart attack. Ho was in town yesterday. After rising to-day be complained of feeling unwell, and returned to his bedroom and expired. Mr (J. J. Davie, who for eome considerable time ha« been acting as instructor of the class in connection with Kaikorai Hand, was bust night presented (by Mr (!. B. Laidlaw. on behalf of the clasp) with an oak-framed enlarged photograph of the. class. Mr Davie acknowledged tiro present- with a few appropriate remarks. Mr Fit-ihcr and Mr Fowlds are at Capo Town. They sail for homo by the yEneas on the 9lh inst.

Tho .Marquis of Linlithgow, son of the first Governor-General of Australia, is en■gaged to Sir Frederick Milncr's daughter. Dr Colquhoun has notified the University Council that he. intends to visit Europe next year, and at yesterday's meeting a letter was received from liim expressing the wit-h that Dr Marshall Maodonakl should be his locum tenons for his University and hcspital duties. The Council decided 1o agree to the request. Mr Geoffrey Nye, busiucfis representative of Hay'wardV Picture Enterprises, Ltd., has completed .arrangements for further extension of his firm's business in Duncdin, and Tetmned to Chri.d-chureh to-day. . .

Ml'lo Dolores will tour the Dominion at tho end of Januarv, beginning at Auckland. . , , Sir Daniel and Lady Gooch arrived at the Dluff vcslerday by the e.s. Moeraki for a trip* through New Zealand. They left, London on October 14 last, and travelled via the Sue/. Canal and Melbourne. Thov are now on their way to Wellington, and "thence on to Taupo. where Sir Daniel will indulge in his favorite paetimc of foiling. From Taupo Ihey will go on to Holor'un. an<l eventually .-.-: ii 1 from Auckland fur Sydney. Their return Home will be bv wav'of China. .'Japan, and the transSiberian "Railway. Sir Daniel Gooch is a crandeon of the celebrated engineer, who was a.!fo chairman of the. Great Western Railway. His estate is at Chelmsford, Fa-box. A nicotine; of ex-pupils of Miss M'lnlosh was held la'.-t evening at the Mornington School. Mr W. l)a.v::hon was elected chairman, and explained that, tho object of the mcetinj- was to arrange f»r some suitable recognition of tho able services of Miss M'liitoh, who for thirty-seven years had acted :v, matron of the school. A strong committee ae:l three sub-committee-were'formed to take the matter in hand. All present \\ ore very enthusiastic, and a jioft of apoio:.'ii's and promises of assistance were rcioivod from ex-pupjk; unable to attend. Tho vaiious committees are to meet ai;ain and report progress on Monday.

'Southland Time*' saw that the Ilex. G. Lind.-ay, who Tor more than twenty years lias been pastor at St. Paul's Church. lnvereargill, intimated to his-congregation on Suiklay that it was his intention to accept the charge of the congregation at St. Clair. Prior to going to lnvercargill the rev. gentleman was at Hampden. He is regarded as one of the .strong men of the Preebvlerian Church.