The Evening Star THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1896.

Evening Star, Issue 9910, 23 January 1896, Page 2

The Evening Star THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1896.

About 200 children from the Palmerston School had an outing to-day in the neighborhood of Hillgrove, whence they were conveyed by train this forenoon.

We understand that Mr E. Houghton has been appointed acting-manager of the Union Steam Ship Company during Mr James Mills's absence from the colony. -

The Rev. Mr Gray, who has been occupying St, Paul's pulpit, Oamaru, for the past nineteen weeks, left yesterday afternoon to take up work in Port Chalmers. The ' N.O. Times' mentions that lie Was made the recipient of a purse of sovereigns by his well-wishers in the congregation. The following are additional returns for the Education Board vacancies:—Mount Cargill, Upper Junction, Puerua, aud Sawyers Bay Messrs Mackenzie and Green ; Table Hill, Messrs Green and Gallaway; Matakanui, Oamaru North, and Waipiata School Committees—Messrs Oallaway and Ramsay.

Nothing occurred prior to the fruit sale this morning to alter the positions taken up by the parties to the dispute. Mr Lorie explained to the large number of persons present how matters stood, and said that as the public had treated him loyally he did not intend to go back on them or to recede from the position he had taken up. He mentioned that after yesterday's sale two of the largest buyers approached by telephone and purchased privately. The record of these transactions has been shown to one of our reporters. After a littk give-and-take talk between the auctioneer and one or two representatives of the trade, the sale proceeded, with the result that of. 190 cases offered all but eighteen were forthwith sold. Quotations: Best apricots, 3.U1 to 4d; medium ditto, 2]d to 3d ; bsst peaches, 3id to 4d ; medium ditto, to 2!A ; dessert apple?, lid ; best plums, extra choice, 2d to 3d ; jam plums, lid to I^l. Bishop Luck, whose death is to-dav reported from Auckland, was the fourth bishop of that diocese, his predecessors in order being Bishop Pompallier, Bishop Croke, and Archbishop Steins, S.J. The deceased prelate came of a Protestant Kentish family, being the fifth son of Mr Alfred Luck, W'.io became converted to the Church of Rome, was on the death of his wife accepted as a priest, and undertook at his sole expense the erection of a monastery at Ramsgate for the Benedictine monks. All his children, with the exception of a girl who died at the age of nine years, were given to the church, the sons becoming priests and the daughters nuns. One of the sons, a brother of .the late bishop, is now at Kihikihi, Auckland. John Luck (Edmund was his name in religion) w»s born on the ISth March, 1840, at Peekham, on the south side of the Thames. He was sent as a lad to St. Edmund's College, Hertfordshire ; studied also under the Benedictine monks at Ramsgate ; pursued a course of philosophy at St. Sulpice, Paris ; received the habit of the Benedictine Order at Subiaco (Italy) on the 13th November, 1860; made his profession on the 7th November in the following year ; pursued his theological studies at the Collegio Romano, taking his degree as D.D. in 1865; was ordained priest on the 23rd November, 1865; occupied for some time the position of superior of the monastery at Ramsgate ; and was consecrated Bishop of Auckland at St. Augustine's, Ramsgate, on the 13th August, 1882. Just before coming to the colony he was sent to assist in the foundation of the novitiate at Malta. During his episcopate eighteen churches were built and St. Patrick's Cathedral was enlarged, and a large number of new schools were established. He introduced to the colouy religious teaching orders tor both men and women, doubled the staff of priests, and his last work wa3 the erection of his new house, a veritable palace, the occupation of which he has not lived long to enjoy. By his people he was regarded as an amiable and saintly man, and to the church in general he was known as an accomplished writer. One of his books is ' Short Meditations.' He was also a botanist and a musician.

Miss L. Edger, M.A., of Auckland, lectures at the Oddfellows' Hall, Stuart street, tonight, on * Theosophy and Theosophical Teachings.' Mr Simms's lecture at the aquatic carnival will deal with a trip from England to Calcutta in 1845, just a half century ago. The return season of two nights by the Craydon and "Wood's Surprise Party begins at the City Hall to-morrow evening. The company have been materially strengthened since their former visit. The George street and Albany street Schools reopen on Monday. The Green Island School will not reopen till Monday, February 3, in consequence of alterations being made to the buildingTeviot apricots, peaches, and plums are now in full swing. Lorie and Co. sell them by auction every morning at ten o'clock, at their new rooma, Moray place (opposite First Church). —[AnvT.]