About People.

Southland Times, Issue 10965, 16 February 1907, Page 2

About People.

Mr H. Findlay, of .the Gore branch of tho Bank of Australasia, left yesterday to transfer to. Wellington. He is well klnown In ctthlctic circles, and has departure is much regretted locally, j The Rev. A. Gamble, organising sector tary for the- New Zealand Church Missionary Association (Anglican) baa been spending the week in Southland. The object of the Association is to send missionaries into the homo and foreign mission hold. At present its funds arc used to maintain fourteen missionaries, half of whom are working among the Maoris land in Melanesia, and the remainder are jin Africa, India, China, and Japan. Mr Gamble is very well pleased wiitk his reception in Southland, from a financial point of view at least. He is also bringing under the notice <?f Interested parties the Church Missionary Gloarier, a Nelson publication devoted to missionary liewft, Mr Gflffible loaves to-day for Queenstown, i where ho wifi take a short rest before ! proceeding north. j The Minister for Lauds (IfMfi R. McNair) will leave Wellington' ore Saturday on a tour of the North of Auckland district. He is booked to speak at several places, and will 1,. - •• move for at leri&t it fortnight. He is duo back in Wellington oh 3rd March, and after spending some days in Weffinglore attending to departmental business, will leave for a three weeks’ trip through {ltd country south of Auckland.

1 Miss K. Browning, the organising officer of the N.Z. section of the Theosophical Society, is at prcscnMn Invercargill, hud commences her work here to-morrow. Miss Browning was ed ie.it> iat Girton, Cambridge,- find bolds the Dublin M.A. degree. She is spdken of us a distinct individuality, arid ii said to have a refreshing breadth of culture. Miss Browning’s visit should stimulate local theosophists, and her lectures will no doubt be of wide interest and pleasure. Miss Edna May, the AmeriSaa actress, is says a London cable betrothed to Oscar Lowisohn, son of the copper king. General Booth is preparing, writes a Londof! correspondent, for another oversea tour, whit'h hj« proposes to carry out at his customary high pressure rate of combining travel and work. The indomitable Veteran, now nearing his- 80th year, will face the discomforts of a midwinter "voyage across the Atlantic in February, and. after conferring with tho American leaders of the Salvation Army in New York; wfil sSour Canada from east to west in a month • visiting Ottawji. Toronto, Montreal and oilier cities, and studying the possibilities of ISm north-west for further settlement schemes which I:>b emmigration commissioners in London have in view;. Embarking at Seattle early in April, lie will leave for

Japan, where he has been assfiled of an official welcome. Where he will go Jftar leaving Japan has not yet been definitely sfc’ttli’d, but he states that whatever arrangement is inadc must admit of his visiting the Straits Fietitlcments before he turns homeward. He hopes to return to London about midsummer. A mild sensation was caused at Waihi (Auckland) when it became known that the Kev. J. L. Patlullo had resigned his position as minister of Hie Waihi Presbyterian Churc.lt. Mr Fultullo states that he resigned because the committee had passed a resolution against Ids action in being a member of the Waihi Golf Club, for dealing in mining scrip, and bring a member of tho Waihi Hospital Trust. Mr Pattullo is one of the most popular ministers in the province of Auckland. Tlie Rhodes’ Scholarship Committee of Selection met yesterday and, says a Wellington message, selected Colin Gilray. the Otago University nominee, as the scholar for 1907. Mr Gilray, who is a son of Professor Gilray, is 22 years of ago. Mo has taken the It.A. Degree ami has represented the South island and New Zealand on the Rugby football field.

| Soya a Wellington message ; ‘'The He' - , t \V. B. Marlon, one of the best known Methodist ministers in N.Z., died in Wellington to-day. Mr Marten- had laboured lin the ministry in N.Z. tor about forty years.” Mr ftpo, Lawrence, Mayor of Dunedin, is in Invercargill, out his way to the Lakes. Yesterday he was shown over the new Municipal buildings by Air W. B. Sonndrett, and taken to various places of interest In and about Invercargill, Air Lawrence expressed himself as greatly surprised as well as pleased with tho progress of the town, and lie heartily congratulated tho citizens on possessing such substantial as well as, handsome municipal offices and up to date theatre. Mr LawreiC-- leaves for Queenstown today.