PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15825, 25 July 1913, Page 3

PERSONAL.

At tho Sunday morning service in tho Napier Baptist Church the ltov. J. K. Archer announced that ho had received and accepted an invitation to' tho pastorate of tho Baptis* Onurch, Inveroargill, and that ho expected to conclude his ministry in Napier about the middle of October.

A very pleasant function took place on Wednesday ovening in the City Corporation test room, Cumberland street, at which Mr W. Dempster was presented, on his leaving for Wellington, with a handsome traveling rug and a safety razor. Mr Overton made the presentation, and dwelt at length on the great esteem in which Mr Dempster was held by- all who came in contact with him. Tho little ceremony concluded by all heartily wishing him every succcss in his new position and the singing of " For.he's a jolly good' fellow." Mr A. M. Myers, M.P. for Auckland' East, who went north on Saturday, is confined to his home in Auckland by'a ■chill, and will not return to Wellington for some days (says the Auckland correspondent of the Post). On August 1 Mrs Myers will leave for Canada, and at the c'oso,of the session Mr Myers will join her on ; a trip to England. At a meeting of the George street School Committee last night it was decided to recommend that Mis 6 Jessie Mitchell, of the Green Island School, be appointed as junior assistant. There has just died, at Hawera (says our Wanganui correspondent) an old colonist in the person of Mr James Williamson, who saw stirring times. Deceased arrived in the dominion 62 years ago, 40 of which he 6pent principally in farming at ICakaramea. . At the time of the gold discoveries in Ot"<ro. in company with Messrs W. and T. M'Williom and Mr W. Norwood, old Wanganiii friends, he left for tho Dunstan diggings, whero he •rained some experience of prospecting life. At the time of the trouble with tho natives on the coast ho was compelled to take his cattle a\vay from Kakaramea to Rangitikei. where his brother resided, deceased barely escaping with his life, and his whare being razed to tho ground by ten natives a few

! hours after he had left it At this time |Mr Williamson joined the Wanganui | Cavalry, and was afterwards a member of tho Militia at the time of tho trouble with Titokowaru.