This gentleman having been a resident of Frankston, Victoria and very popular throughout the district, and at the request of some we know, we reprint the following account of his doings thinking it may be of interest to our readers.

For some time past the fine Anglican Church of St. Andrew at Perth, Tasmania, built through the exertions of the late Mr. E. Galer has been closed, the Synod at last session having cut off the stipend, and united the cure with Evandale, which in practice is unworkable. Adherents of the old church will be glad to learn that the Rev. Alfred Rashleigh Stackhouse will preach there tomorrow; and also on Christmas Day, and has decided to try and work up the congregation again, and get the parish again made a separate incumbency.

There is little doubt that a warm welcome will be accorded to the son of one whose name is still revered in the districts around Perth and Longford, the Rev. A. R. Stackhouse being a son of the Rev. Alfred Stackhouse who spent 33 years of his life as a Christian worker in the districts named. When a chaplain of the East India Company, the Rev. Alfred Stackhouse visited Tasmania on sick leave in 1841, and did temporary service at Norfolk Plains for the Rev. Robert Rowland Davies.

After returning to India he resigned his chaplaincy in the following year and came to Tasmania where Bishop Francis Russell Nixon appointed him to the cure of Perth, and after ministering there for 18 years he succeeded the Rev. R. R. Davies at Longford in 1860 when the latter removed to Hobart on his appointment as Archdeacon. For 13 years Mr. Stackhouse labored at Longford, throwing his energies into church and Sunday-school work, the temperance cause, mission work and gaining the esteem of all. In April, 1876, he resigned through ill-health and removed to St. Leonards, where he died on May 26, l876, at the age of 65.

His son, the Rev. A. R. Stackhouse, has been for some years stationed in Victoria, in charge of the parishes of Yea and Mornington, and returned to Tasmania through ill-health about 12 months ago. The climate of his native land has proved beneficial, and he would prefer to remain in the colony. He has now been appointed by Bishop Henry Hutchinson Montgomery to the charge of Perth and Franklin Village, and though there is no stipend at present attached to the church, he trusts to rally round it many of the old congregation, and present a report to the next session of Synod that will warrant it being restored to the list of separate incumbencies.