On Monday, the 24th instant, a deputation, consisting of a number of members of session, and managers of the church, waited upon the Rev. Andrew Pringle, of Geelong, at the manse, who had been officiating in Portland for the last two months, for the Rev. Andrew Ross, who had been absent from feeble health, when, in the name of session and congregation, they presented him with a purse containing forty sovereigns, as an expression of gratitude and esteem, and an acknowledgement of his able, faithful, and impressive administrations while labouring amongst them. The following address was read to him at the same time by one of the deputation, to which the reverend gentleman briefly and feelingly replied: -

The period of your services among the members of the Presbyterian Church here having terminated, I am instructed by the members of session to express to you their best thanks for the readiness with which you consented to supply their Pastor's place during his late illness, and to convey to you the assurance that your ministrations have been most gratifying to the congregation; and will, the session trust, be greatly blessed by the Head of the Church to the eternal good of those you leave behind, and by whom you will be always remembered with the sincerest affection and esteem.

GEORGE SMITH
Clerk of Session.

Portland,
24th September, 1855.