MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 39, 24 September 1892, Page 956

MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.

DR LAMB, whose portrait is herewith given with that of his wife, and whose article on the New Hebrides is in another part of this paper, is in many respects a remarkable man. His career is an example of what Christian enthnsiasni will accomplish even in these prosaic and money-grubbing days. Eighteen years ago he was one of the pupils at St. Matthew's School, Auckland. Removing with his parents to Christchurch, he happened while there to attend a service conducted by a missionary from the New Hebrides, who called for volunteers for the good cause. Although then only a

PR. AND MBS LAMB (Medical Missionary to New- Hebrides). lad of sixteen, he determined to dedicate his life to this work. Possessing talents of a high order, he applied himself to study, and succeeded in carrying off a Junior University Scholarship. By the aid of this, supplemented later on with fees derived from teaching, he continued his course, and took his degree. He now resolved to study medicine in order to thoroughly equip himself for his duties, and proceeded to Scotland, where he again engaged in teaching while pursuing his studies. During this period he met the young lady who afterwards became his wife, and who shared his enthusiasm for mission work. After their engagement she determined to qualify herself as a skilled nurse, and while her intended husband was studying medicine she entered a hospital and served for two years as a nurse. Is due time, Dr. Lamb took his degree, and returned with bis wife to the colony. By a happy chance, it happened that the Presbyterian General Assembly, upon which the dnty of ordaining him devolved, met at Auckland this year, and so it came abont that his ordination took place in the city where his early years were spent.

The Rev. G. W. York, who has been for some time past curate of St. Paul’s, has, on the eve of his departure from Dunedin, met with some very pleasing manifestations of the regard in which he has been held. The Ven. Archdeacon Edwards, incumbent of St. Paul, at a meeting held for the purpose of bidding Mr York good bye, spoke in very complimentary terms of the assistance of his curate, saying that never before had he worked with one who bad taken such an energetic part in all that concerned the parish. An address signed by thirty ladies and gentlemen was then handed to Mr Yoik, with a present of a very handsome travelling case, and a beautiful silver pocket communion service from the teachers and children of the school, and handsomely bound volumes from the Sunday-school Parents' Guild. At the rooms of the Dunedin Young Men s Mission a similar meeting was held, when Mr Webb, on behalf of the Mission, presented Mr York with handsomely bound copies of the Englishman s Bible, the parallel Bible, a pocket Bible, and a surplice bag.

I am sorry to tell you (writes our Dunedin correspondent) of the death of a dear little girl Alice Clara Gregg, daughter of William and Eleanor R. Gregg. She was a great favourite with all her companions, and • Dale House ’ has been beseiged with little girls carrying the most lovely

of white bouquets and wreaths. She seems to have been a universal favourite. ANOTHER death has occurred in society circles —the wife of a few months of Mr Lindsay Dymock. As Annie Beal, she was much beloved in Dunedin for many years. After her marriage she went with her husband to Hobart, where she died. This will necessitate a very quiet wedding for Miss Dymock.