PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 198, 22 July 1926, Page 7

PERSONAL

Their Excellencies the Governor-' General Charles Fergusson) and Lady Alice Fergusson returned to Wellington by train yesterday afternoon after attending the official opening ceremony in connection with the Awapuni hostel of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Fund. A London, cable states that His Majesty the King gave an audience to Sir Francis Bell yesterday. Mr B. . Palmer, secretary of the Manawatu Motor Club, is at present confined to bed suffering from influenza.

Dr. Erio Bridgman, late of the staff . of the Palmerston North Hospital, is at present in Levuka, Fiji, and has sufficiently recovered from an attack of fever to resume his duties. Mr F. V. Carpenter, manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Tokomaru Bay, will leave Wellington . for London by the Port Melbourne today. 3 r* Mr F. M. Cordery, of Palmerston North, who was recently taken ill in Christchurch, has now practiaclly recovered and will soon be able to return home.

A Vancouver, message states that Mr H. W. Wood, head of the Alberta wheat pool, leaves to-day, via the Orient, for Australia, to deliver addresses on wheat marketing. He will, in Australia,. meet Messrs C. H. Burnell and George Robertson, heads of the Saskatchewan pool. Canon Wollstein, the vicar of Spring Creek, Marlborough, celebrated his' 80th birthday recently, and was given a very pleasant party. Canon Wollstein 6aid that although he contemplated retiring from the strenuous work of a parish, where the responsibility was so great,, he looked forward to action as locum tenens in the time to come. ■> The death occurred in Wellington yesterday _ morning of the veteran Presbyterian minister, Rev. James Paterson. The deceased gentleman, who was 95 years of age, was a native of Argyllshire, Scotland. He was born in the jparish of Kirkoswalde, and was primarily educated at the Grammar School, Girvan, studying afterwards at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He received his theological training at the Free Church College, Edinburgh, and having passed through the regular course of study prescribed by the church, he received a call to St. Peter’s, in Liverpool, in connection with the Presbyterian Church in England, and was ordained and - inducted into that charge in April, 1857. In 'IB6B he accepted a call to the pastorate of St. John’s Church, Wellington. Arriving in August of that year, he was inducted in November following, and retained the position until his resignation, when he was succeeded by the Rev. Dr. Gibb, but continued to hold the position of senior minister until Jris death. In former years Mr Paterson was actively interested in educational matters, was a fellow of

the New Zealand University, and rendered valuable service as a member of the Education Board and the Board of Governors of the Wellington College and Girls’-High School. After his retirement from the pastorate of St.

John’s, Mr and Mrs Paterson revisited the Old Country. Mrs Paterson died about fifteen years ago.. The family, consists of two daughters and one son;