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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 77, 17 August 1912, Page 4

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A London cablegram states that General Booth is slightly better. The Governor has consented to lay thfr foundation stone of the Wanganui i.M.C.A. building on October 3. News has been received in Wanganui that Mrs. Henry, wife of Dr. J. Q. A. Henry, the American evangelist, died at' Los Angeles on June 25. Captain Stevens, who succeeded Major l. v\. McDonald in charge of the Junior Cadets lias been assigned duties with: the defence force at Hawera. The Pvev. K. S. Gray, pastor of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church at; I nristchurch. has received an urgent call to the Hanover Street Church, in. Dunedin. Tiro Eev. D. D. Scott, of Onehnnga. lias declined the call of the Gore Presbvterian Church, the emoluments of which are £SO more than his present stipend. Great satisfaction has been expressed in Oiiehunga at his decision. At the annual congregational mectingof St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church held at Stratford on Thursday evening it was unanimously and heartily decided' to extend a call to the Rev. Jameg Clarke, of Palmerston South'. Mr. James Sinclair, eldest son of Mr. P.. Sinclair, of Vogeltown, is returningfrom England. Mr. Sinclair, who has been studying for the medical profession, and was seriously injured in a football match, is due 'at Wellington on Wednesday. According to private advices received in Jfcw Plymouth, Mr. IT. J. "Brown broKc his ankle aboard ship the day after leaving Tahiti for San Francisco. The ship's doctor put it in splints, ami on arrival at San Francisco it was put into plaster. When the mail left Mr. Brown was making satisfactory progress.