OBITUARY RECORD

Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 81

OBITUARY RECORD

The Right Rev. Dr J. R. A. ChinneryHaldane, Bishop of Argylo and the Isles, died at Onich. , near Ballachul.'sh, on February 15, after a long illness. He graduated at Cambridge in 1864, and in the same v-ear married the daughter of Sir Nicholas Chinnery, of Flint ville, Co. Cork, whose surname he prefixed to his own. After eight years as a curate at All Saints'. Edinburgh, he became incumbent of St. Bride, Nether-Lochaber. In 1879 he was made honorary canort of Argyle and the leles : in 1881 he was made dean : and in 1883 he was consecrated bishop of the diocese. A volume of his charges and two little books for the use of communicants comprise all his-published works. He leaves two sons, but hie only daughter predeceased him. The Bishop confined himself to ecclesiastical duties, and did not figure in politic 3 .

Mt James Annand. who was returned at the general' election as M.P. for East' Aberdeen, did not live to take his seat in the House, as he died suddenly of angina pectoris in London on February 15. He was born at Kinmundy in 1843. and began life as a blacksmith, then was a teacher for a year, and finally became a journalist. Most of his experience was in London and on Tyneside. though latterly he had been proprietor and editor of the Ripon Observer. He unsuccessfully contested Tynemouth in 1892 and the St." Andrew's Burghs in 1900 ; and his death, just when his ambition had 'at length been gratified, is much regretted in -his constituency and elsewhere.

A workman poet has passed away in the person of Mr William Wilson, eugine-smith. of the Castle Mills, Edinburgh, who died on February 18, at the age of 75. After 14 years in the service of the London and North-Western and London, Brighten, and South Coast railways, he returned to Edinburgh, and became connected with the Castle Mills in 1863. Thereafter he became prominent in connection with leading organisations of working men. and took a useful part in the carrying out of a number of important reforms. He published a large number of poetical pieces in the Scotsman over a period of many years, and a number of these were collected and published in a volume . entitled " Echoes of the Anvil," which were very favourably reecived by the public. Mr Wilson is survived by a. widow and grown-up family. Mr J. E. Tuit, a brid-ge engineer of much f)rotnise, and a director of Arrol and Co. Ltd.), has died at the premature age of 46. His talents were discovered by Sir William Arrol during the building of the Forth bridge. His greatest work was the bridge, nearly two miles long, over the Nile at Cairo, now approaching completion. The design for this bridge was thrown open to international competition, but Mr Tuit's design was deferred. JELsurrl u-ork a-nd ex-

pesure brought on dysentery, followed by complications, to which he succumbed.

Alexander Kennedy, a Glasgow polieoraan, who had lately retired, was ascending the stair to enter the ' chief constable's office, when he fell forward and expired from heart disease. He weighed over 23 stone, and was well known as a member of the tug-of-war team of the Glasgow police. Mr David John6tone Walker, only member of Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, the oldest publishing firm now in existence in Scotland, ha\ ing been established in 1734, has died at a ripe age. He took a special interest in public libraries in New Zealand, for which he supplied many book?. ■ The deaths are also announced of the Rev. P. M 'Donald, minister of Holy rood U.F. Church, Edinburgh; Rev. W. H. Addicon. Congregational minister, Greenock; and Mr Malcolm Mac Donald. chief constable of the County of Sutherland.

GENERAL NEWS. The Presbytery of Dunbar has just heard charges of drunkenness laid against the Rev. Robert Gray, -parish minister of Innerwick. The majority of the counts were found to be proved, and a sentence cf deposition from the ministry was passed upon Mr Gray, who thereupon appealed to the Synod. » - . At Annan Miss Fanny yeoman fell into an open cellar at the Town Hall and broke one of her legs. After a fortnight's suffering she died from her injuries. It is publicly stated that Leith Parish Council has had to maintain an inmate in MerningtoD Asylum, Edinburgh, for no less than 58 years. A New York company has just erected an experimental wireless telegraphy "station at" Machnihanish Bay, on the western coast of Kintyre. I Charles Jarrott. a well-known motor car his own neck and those of his five companions, rode a motor car along the Radical road on the face of Salisbury 1 Crags, Edinburgh. This being an illegal I act, he was brought up at the Burgh ' Court and fined three guineas. ' It has been decided to erect a new

building for the Royal Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children on a first-class scale. . At the Clyde Ironworks. Tollcross, Glasgow, a boiler containing 200 tons of boiling pitch burst the other night. The pitch caught fire and flowed in all directions in blazing streams. Some railway waggons in an adjoining bye were consumed and other damage done before the fire was mastered. Treasurer Hrown, Edinburgh, stated the other day that the city gardener had in hand a scheme for a common meeting ground for the citizens, where they might have music and tea gardens and winter gardens. The cost of the scheme would probably involve £50.000 or £75,000. A runaway horse attached to a juteladen lorry dashed through the window of a branch of the Bank of Scotland at the

corner of Arbroath road and Albert street, j Dundee. The animal landed on the j counter, narrowly missing the teller, whose I money -was scattered o\er the floor, while ; some of it rolled into the street. The horse was un3oked and led out at the door.

A fire broke out in the ja panning department of Singer's great sewing machine works at Kilbowie. near Glasgow, on March 1, and £10,000 worth of damage was done before it was got under. These works employ 9600 hands. ihe North British Railway is about to seek powers to extend largely the dock at Methil, Fife, which is in a chronic state of

congestion. The coal industry in Fife is increasing enormously, and great developments are about to take place, under the sea as well as on tho land. The cost of

the new dock, with its necessary railway lines, is estimated at £500,000. The dock will admit steamers of 6000 tons at all states of the tide. Colonel M'Hardy. chairman of the Scottish Prison Commissioners, stated this week at a meeting in Glasgow that 13,000 new criminal = entered the prisons of Scotland every year. Of these one-half came from the Glasgow distrkt. Tho number of women prisoners, hov\e\er, had be-on going down all over the country since 1901. The following peisonal estates of deceased individuals ha\e been recorded: — Lord Irvea-elyde, £295.456; Mr Robert Miln. of Woodhill, Forfar, £59.185; Mrs Cox, Drumsheugh place, Edinburgh. £57,045 ; Captain J. A. Forbes, R.N., Berwick-on-Tweed, £40.194: Mr Win. Bair, coalmaster, I^arkhall, Lanarkshire, £22,792. At a special meeting of the shareholders of the Highland Railway Co., held at Inverness yesterday, it was intimated by the chairman, Mr Wm. Whitelaw, that as proxies amounting to £700,000 had been received in opno^ition to the proposed amalgamation of the company with the Great North of Scotland Railway Co., while many .shareholders had abstained from voting, the directors had resolved not to proceed further with the amalgamation scheme. This sudden turn in affa'iTs ha-s awakened surprise, and while the decision is welcomed at Inverness it is regretted at Aberdeen.