The Rev. James B. Smellie , formerly minister at the Presbyterian church at Wyndham, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and educated at the University of that city, and at the New College, Edinburgh. He was licensed bg the Presbytery of Stirling, Scotland, in 1883, and in the following year was inducted as the first minister of the Townhill Free Church by the Presbytery of Dunfermline. Subsequently, Mr Smellie was commissioned by the Colonial Committee of the Free Church of Scotland to the New Zealand Presbyterian church, and, in 1887, was inducted to the charge of the Jhon Knox Presbyterian church at Rangiora. In 1901, he received a unanimous call to Wyndham, and is now (1905) stationed at Reef ton on the West Coast. Mr Smellie was married, in 1886, to Miss Robertson, of Stirling, and has three children.