PRESENTATION TO DR. HOOPER, D.D.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2601, 14 March 1889, Page 2

PRESENTATION TO DR. HOOPER, D.D.

, —, • A vkuy pleasant soiree was held in S. Andrew's school on Tuesday evening, to bid farewell to Dr. Hooper, who is leaving Waikato. An address had been very cleverly prepared by Mr Henry Wilson, and it was placed in the porch of the Church for those who liked to append their names. About sixty olid so, and the address was then presented by the Archdeacon to Dr. Hooper, who suitably acknowledged it, and spoke of the friends ho had made in Waikato in feeling terms. During the evening, instrumental and vocal selections were given by the following ladies and gentlemen : Mesdames Chambers and Maxwell, the Misses Nixon, Bidlington, Wilson, Bull, and Frazer, Messrs H. Wilson and O. Garland. The address was as follows:—"To the Rev. William Hooper, D.D., on his leaving Cambridge, March, 18SD. Reverend and Dear Sir,— The members of the Church of England in Cambridge and the surrounding district, also many of other denominations feel, that they ought not to allow you to leave their neighbourhood without an assurance of their deep and affectionate esteem, and also of their sense of great indebtedness, to you for the gratuitous services in your high calling which you have so unreservedly rendered them during the past twelve months. Among other tilings, instructive lectures delivered by you, for your zealous and methodical training of Sunday-school teachers, for your conduct of Divine Service, and above all perhaps for the series of the remarkably able and beautiful sermons which you have preached among them, they hereby return you their heartfelt thanks ; and they trust that the results of your earnest and largr-.mindcii ministrations may gladden you by their visible effects, and that you may bo preserved in health and happiness for many yi-ars to continue your truly Apostolic work. With every good wish iils.» for the welfare of your family.—We are, leverenl and dear sir, your alf ictionate wall wishers." (Here follows upwards of sixty signatures). Coffee and eatables were then partaken of, and the audience dispersed. During the evrniiiK a small purse of sovereigns, made up by a few friends of West and East Cambridge, was presented to Dr. Hooper by Archdeacon Willis, and suitably acknowledged.