PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13728, 20 April 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Ds. Mountain* left for the South yester- .... day. "- Dr. J. Gray was a passenger'from Sydney by the Victoria yesterday. . Mr. and Mrs. 'G. A. Stubbs returned from Sydney by the Victoria yesterday. Captain Tyson was a passenger from the. South by the Rarawa on Saturday. . The Rev. Mr. Gibson arrived from New Plymouth on Saturday by the Rarawa. Mrs. Geo. Fowlds, wife of the Minister for Education, returned from the South by the Takapuna yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Murdoch McLean, who have been on a, visit to Europe, returned to Auckland by the Victoria from Sydney yesterday. Mr. Joshua Mortimer, Church of Christ evangelist, will leave Auckland to-morrow by the s.s. Victoria, to take up pastoral and . preaching work with the Church of Christ in Pohiatua. Mr. P Williams, late chief officer on the Corinna, has joined the Rotoiti in a similar capacity, replacing Mr. Cameron, who has gone over to the Arahura. Mr. A. Cant, of the Moeraki. has taken Mr. Williams' place on the Corinna. The Rev. R. A. Robinson, who lias for, some time past occupied the pulpit in connection with the Onehunga Congregational Church, was waited upon by members of his congregation and friends the other evening, and presented with a purse of' sovereigns to mark their high sense of the t esteem in which he is held. , At the conclusion of the morning service at St. Matthew's Church yesterday the members of the choir met in the crypt, and on their behalf the vicar (Rev. W. E. Gillam) presented a silver-mounted dressing case, suitably inscribed, to the organist and choirmaster (Mr. J, H. Phillpot), who thanked the members in a few appropriate fords'. News has-been received in Wellington (telegraphs our correspondent) that Mrs. Annie Resant, president of the Thcosophical Society, is to deliver a series of lectures on theosophy in the principal cities of Australasia. She is to leave Sydney for Wellington, on August 1, and will deliver lectures in Wellington, Auckland, Ghristchurch, and Dimedhi. ... Mr. Edward Bobson, formerly ■ Canterbury provincial engineer, died yesterday at CTiriatchurch, aged 91 years. Amongst the works with which Mr. Dobson's name is connected, is the survey of the Canterbury. West Coast, Road, via Otira Gorge. He : was the author of several works on engineering and building, and took a keen interest in educational matters.