VISITORS TO THE CITY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20252, 10 November 1927, Page 10

VISITORS TO THE CITY.

LATEST ARRIVALS. City Hotel. Mr F. Foord, Dr C. S. Boone (Auckland;, Mr L. Graham (Te Kuiti), Mr VV. M'Donald (Christchurch), Mr R. A. M'Doull (Oamaru). Excelsior Hotel. Mr J. S. Brav, Miss M. Bray (Sydney), Mr H. C. Fayfe (Melbourne). Mr J. HKay (Taihape), Mr J. M'William Me W.Kimber, Mr S. Alexander. Mr D. Leyes (Wellington), Mr P. Hockley (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs F. Gilchrist (Oturehua), Mr T. J. Boyce (Invercargill). PERSONAL. Vice-Regal. The Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, and Lady Alice Fergusson, accompanied by Miss Frances Dugdale and Captain E. P. O. Boyle, arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning (says our Christchurch correspondent). During the day they attended the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting at Riccarton, and to-day his Excellency will ofLcially open the Royal Show. Mr A. E. Stewart, of Milton, came to Dunedin by the south train last night. Mr James M.- Wills, of the Alliance Assurance Company, left Dunedin yesterday morning to spend his vacation in Ndpier. The Auckland Presbytery has resolved to nominate the Rev. G. Budd as moder-ator-designate of the General Assembly. A Timaru Press Association message announces the death of Mr John William White, aged 90, who was for 54 years Crown Prosecutor of Timaru. A Hawera Press Association telegram states that the Rev. Father F. P. Cullen, administrator of the Catholic diocese at Wellington, has been appointed parish priest at Hawera in succession to the late Monsignor Power. Mr L. C. Eastman, the Otago cricket coach, left by-yesterday’s express en route to Wellington. He is to take part in the match, New Zealand v. The Rest, which will be commenced to-morrow, and he expects to return on Wednesday next. The Rev. F. Rule was granted four months’ leave of absence by the Christchurch Presbytery on Monday. Mr Rule intends making a trip to America, where he wSI visit his sons, one of whom is at a hhurch at. Phcenix, Arizona, _ and the other a professor at a college in Louisville, Kentucky. He will leave early in January. Mr Charles Judd, probably the oldest preacher in Australia and New Zealand, died suddenly last Saturday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs Noonan, of North Brighton, Christchurch. Mr Judd was in the best of health and spirits up till a few days before bis death* and was lookhig forward to a family reunion which was being arranged for his ninetieth birthday, and which would have taken place on December 3 next. The deceased was born in Australia where he became a preacher some 68 years ago, and either as a stipendiary or a local preacher he conducted services practically till the last. About 25 yeaVs ago Mr Judd was the evangelist at the Moorehouse Avenue Church of Christ, Christchurch, remaining there for nine years. He is survived By three daughters and several grand-children. The following resolution has been adopted by the Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand with reference to the resignation of the Hev. F. H. Wilkinson from the staff of the Canton Villages Mission“ The Foreign Missions Committee has received with sincere regret the resignation of the Rev. F. n. Wilkinson. Mr Wilkinson was ordained on August 9, 1920, and arrived in Canton on September 22 of the same year. Ho was ‘ own missionary ’ of the Anderson s Bay congregation. The committee expresses hearty appreciation of his fine ability, oi the sincere interest he has ever displayed in the work of the mission, and of {he brotherly spirit which characterised his relations with his missionary colleagues and Chinese fellow-workers. In all his service Mrs Wilkinson proved herself an invaluable helpmate. The committee regrets that circumstances arising out of the present Chinese situation have necessitated Mr Wilkinson’s retirement from the mission after a comparatively short period of service. The step which he has taken was, however, in accordance with the mind of the Mission Council and of the committee, and was due to his conviction, in which the council concurred, that, under the changed circumstances, there was not at present offering anv sphere of work which called him with the sense that it was the task that God would have him do here and now for China. The hearty goodwill of the committee goes with him in his purpose to enter the regular work of the ministry in New Zealand.”