OBITUARY.

Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 62, 14 March 1892, Page 2

OBITUARY.

lUNITKD FBESS ASBOCJfATJOW.I (Rocoivod March 14. 10.30 a.m.y Berlin, 13th March.. Tho Grand Duko of Hesso is dead. [The Grand Duke Louis IV. of Hesso was. born 12th September, 1837, and suooeeded'. to tho Dukedom in 1877. He waa married in 1862 to Alice, second daughter of HerMajesty Qneen Victoria, who died on the 14th Deooniber, 1878. Ho is sttooeeded by his son Ernest Louis, born 25th November,, 1868.] London, 13th Maroh. I Obituary — Principal Cairns, Presbyterian. [The Roy. John Cairns, D.D., LL.D., was born in Berwickshire in August, 1818. He was educated at tho University of Edinburgh and at tho University of Berlin, and was minister of tho United Presbyterian Churoh at Berwiok-on-Tweed from 1845 to 1876. In 1867 he became Professor of Apologetios in the United Presbyterian Church, and when the Hall was reorganised in 1876 he removed to Edinburgh, toaohing Systematic Theology as well. In 1879 he beoamo Principal of tho College. Ho has boon a well-known, &blo, and prolific writer on theola.tjioal subjects.] ONE OF WELLINGTON'S PIONEEES. IBy Telegraph.* {Our Own Correspondent.) Oabtebton, Tuiß Day. Mr. George Burnett, one oi* the pionoer Bottlers of tho Wellington district, died from cancer in the stomaoh last night. He arrived in the Bengal Merchant in 1840 with his parents, and settled at the H'ntt. Ho canio to resido at Cartorton 11 years' ago, and was widely known and highly rosV^tod. Ho leavoa a wife and nine children *wl six grandchildren.