PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12996, 11 December 1902, Page 6

PERSONAL.

The Rev 0. S. Ogg has resigned,'charge of St Andrew's Church, Wellington, owing to advanced years and failing 'health. He took charge of the pastorate- in 1872. The Wellington. Presbytery, in accepting the resignation, expressed its appreciation ■ of Mr Ogg's long and faithful service. ( Mr F. Archer, of Messrs Dalgety and Co., 'returned to Christchurch, on Tuesday, after a holiday trip'to the Old Country. The Minister of Lands is confined to his ■I bed with an attack of colic. This means | that his trip to Auckland will be aban- ''. doned till after the holidays. j The Secretarv of the (New Zealand ' Cricket Mr F. C Raphael, left last i night for Auckland to meet Lord Hawke's team, which is duo there on Dec. 15. ,' The Hon H. Feldtvick arrived in town ' last evening by the- express. 1 Mr C. T. Newton .returned by the ! Gothic from a visit to Great Britain. Mr 'William Stevenson, of Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, Dunedin.'has been in Christchurchfor the last few days. I Miss Neill. daughter of Mr A. Ncill. engineer to the Gas Company, was man-ied yesterday to Mr David Bates, at St Paul's • Church", bv the Rev Dr Elmsley. The following is taken from the- "Livor- - pool Post" of Oct. 27:—The Rey Father Donnelly, of Dunedin Diocese, 'New Zealand-, and late military chaplain to the forces in South Africa, has been spending ft.few weeks' holiday with his old college companions in different parts of 'England'. The rev gentleman sang the eleven o'clock Mass im 'St Joseph's Church,-Wigan, and preached an able and eloquent_ sermon at Vespers to a crowded congregation,-the unnrc'i beinM ' packed, as Father Donnelly had been previously announced to preach ' in the evening . His discourse was on the feast of the day. and 1 was ably and l clearly wcplained, and" was most instructive and Impressive .

Besfc English. Marmalade, lib tins, 6.1. Wardell's. ' W •■ The recent experiments of the military authorities -with motor-waggons have proved so satisfactory that the War Office lias decided to adopt them for the use of the Army ; Service Corps,, and some companies are to be> supplied with, them forthwith.