OBITUARY REV. A. TOOMATH A telegram reached Yea on Friday evening last conveying the sad news of the death early that morning of the Rev. Andrew Toomath, at his residence, "Airlie Avenue," Armadale. The deceased gentleman was well into his 82nd year and in the early year's of his ministry was closely associated with Yea. He was the first resident clergyman of the combined parishes of Yea and Alexandria from 1857 to 1872 and first minister of St Luke's Church, (it having been built during his ministry,) being succeeded in charge by the present rectors father, the Rev, S. B. Scott, In 1873 Mr Toomath became I. of Ch. Ch., Kilmore in which he ministered for 18 years (1873 to 1891) and was R.D. of Kilmore from 1889 to 1891. From thence he removed to the city, having received the chaplainship of the Melbourne cemetery, retiring from the ministry in 1903. The deceased Rev. gentleman has of late years been invalided with ?eczema?, but was a patient suffering under the careful nursing of his daughter Emily. Brief and feeling reference to the sad event was made at St. Luke's on Sunday last by the Rev. R. A. Scott who announced that owing to the deceased Rev. gentleman's early association with Sr. Luke's and the spiritual work of the parish, he would hold a memorial service on Sunday evening next. The rev. gentleman., whose wife pre deceased him by about 14 years, left a family of eight, three sons and five daughters to whom in unity with his old parishioners here we extend our deepest sympathy in their bereavement.