PERSONAL ITEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13978, 13 August 1909, Page 3

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr M. L. Orbell has gone on a holiday trip to Sydney. . The friends of Mr AY. H. Williams will be pleased and relieved to hear that he is recovering from his illness. Messrs AY. E. Taylor and J. A. Haggitt, of Dunedin, arrived in Timaru, by the second express yesterday for the purpose of taking part in Spohr's oratorio "The Last Judgment," to bo given in Trinity Church this evening. Yesterday Mr T. J. Burns formally handed over control of the Empire, Hotel to the new lessee, Mr J. A. Duncan, who formerly kept the .North Otago Hotel, Oamaru, and latterly the Palmerston and North "Western, Hotel in Palmerston South. Mr Duncan has been singularly unfortunate in that he has been the victim of reduction three times, but this time .he hopes he has come to stay, and as' he has been in the business all his life, there is no doubt- about his ability to conduct the Empire to the public's satisfaction. The following paragraph aopoarx in a Scotch paper regarding the late Rev. Robert Jackson: —The death is announced in British Columbia, in his sSth year, of the Rev. Robert Jackson, a native of Jnvcrurie. Aberdeensliire. Mr Jackson, while working as a journeyman joiner in Glasgow, gave up his trade and prepared for entering the ministry. Returning to Inverurie, he engaged in evangelistic work in connection with the Free Church, studying at Aberdeen University, where he graduated in divinity. On being licensed as a minister, Mr Jackson wont first to Australia and afterwards to New Zealand, his labours meeting with much

success in both places. In April last he went, to Canada with the view of starting fruit farming, and had been resident in British Columbia for only a short time.