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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17830, 26 April 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL.

MINISTERIAL. The lion \V. Downie Stewart will arrive in Christchurch this evening from Dunedin. lie will proceed to Wellington by the ferry steamer. Advices from Seoul announce the death of ex-Emperor Ti, of Korea. The death is announced, from sleeping sickness of Colonel C. A. Johnstone, formerly of the Indian Medical Service, says a London cable. 11 is wife was a daughter of the late Dr Honeyman, of Auckland. Sergeant A. W. Almond, of the Christchurch Police Force, went to Lyttelton to-day to take charge of th? Police district during the absence of Sergeant J. W. M'Holm. who has gone abroad as the manager for Randolph Rose. Sir Henry Lunn, the distinguished evangelist, arrived by the Niagara. Details of his New Zealand tour arc incomplete. lie expects to preach in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. and leaves for Brisbane on May 21. The Minister in charge of the Cook group, the Hon Sir Maui Pcmare, will leave Wellington by the San Francisco mail steamer Tahiti to-morrow for Rarotonga, where he will officially receive, on behalf of the New Zealand Government, his Excellency the Gov-ernor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson), and Lady Alice Fergusson, on their arrival at Rarotonga in the course of their Pacific cruise. The Rev William S. Potter, of the Richmond Avenue Methodist Church. Grey Lynn, celebrated his ministerial jubilee yesterday. Mr Potter, who was twice elected president of the Methodist Church, was born in London in 1554. and landed in Auckland on October 13, 1858, joining the Methodist Sunday school at Alexandra Street, then Edwardes Street, in the following year. He became a member of the church there in 1870, and was for several years secretary'of the school. lie visited England in 1573. While following his trade as a coachbuilder he took private tuition in. preparation for the ministry. being received by the Primitive Methodist Conference in 1876. On April •23 of that year he began his ministerial work in Greendale, Canterbury. Two years later he was appointed to Webb Street. Wellington, and twice recalled, spending eleven years there in all. His other charges have been in Otago and Taranaki.