ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9488, 18 April 1894, Page 6

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

[PROM on* own coBBESFONDSNT.3 London, March 9. The Australian and New Zealand Mortgage i Company have recommended a dividend of Qi per cent, for the last half-year., making 5 per cent, for the year. A balance of £2,997 1 is to be carried forward. A few of the Australian stocks fell slightly this week, but the fall is looked on as a mere ordinary day-by -day fluctuation of the 1 market/and not as indicating any reaction m the favourable view lately taken of such securities. New Zealand consoUremamfinn at 99i-100 for 3J Percent., and 108-109 for fours. Auckland city fives are "*>,£"■' Auckland harbour fives, 106 a, 108 a; Chmtchurch drainage sixes, 1225. 124s;Dunedrn sixes, 120s, 1225; Dunedin fives, 109s, Ills; Wellington city sixes. 116s, 119s, ex dtv. ; Wellington harbour 4£ per cents., lU.>s, ll»s, * Mr. Hugh William Segar, 8.A., who has been finally selected for the vacant Professorship of Mathematics at the Auckland University College, appears to Auckland University College, appears to be quite an acquisition to the colonial professoriate. He was Second Wrangler at Cambridge in 1890 and Smith's Prizeman in 1892. He won distinctions in mathematics and phitasopny in 1886 and 1887, and was first in England in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, and science in senior Cambridge local examinations. Mr. Segar is 25 yearsof age and unmarried. He has been lately employed as assistant lecturer at University College, Aberystwith, also at Liverpool College, etc. Professor Forsyth, Cambridge University lecturer in mathematical, says;—"l can recommend Mr. Segar as a man who, in my opinion, is fully qualified in every way for the successful discharge of the duties of the Professorship in Mathematics!." Mr. Roberts, principal of Aberystwith College, describes Mr. Segar aa " a highly competent lecturer and teacher." His course at Cambridge is described as a " brilliant " one. Of his Smith prise essay. Professor Cay ley writes:— was a good deal struck with the essay which gained yon a Smith's prize. It seemed to me to show great fertility of invention and power of making the most of a mathematical question." A number of valuable mathematical papers have been written by Mr. Segar, and nave found publication. Professors Segar and Egerton sail for Auckland by the s.s. Aorangi from Plymouth to-morrow, and may be expected to arrive about the 25th proximo. At the Queen s recent drawing-rooms Mrs. Anson and Mrs. Brittan were presented to Her Majesty "on their marriage," by their mother, Mrs. Gisborue, formerly of New Zealand. Mrs. Honeyman, the wife of Dr. Honeyman, of Auckland, was also presented to the Queen by Mrs. George Lawsoa. Mrs. Honeyman wore a very handsome drees made for her by Redmayne, of Bond-street. Dr. Honeyman'-s health continues to improve. Ho tells me lie has taken to tricycle riding during the past fortnight, and also is 1 able to go in for horseback exercise, both doing him much good. He is still at Brighton, and his future movements are somewhat uncertain, depending largely on the state, of his health. All being well he intends to remain in Europe for some years for the education of his children, and perhaps altogether. But he says, "In any case I shall always consider myself an Anglo-New Zealander." It is with most sincere regret that I have to record the death of Mr. J. B. Russell, of Auckland, which occurred on Monday, February 26, and I am aware that the news will be read with much sorrow in all parts of New Zealand. When last I wrote about Mr. Russell he was at Bournemouth, feeling so well that there seemed no necessity to issue any further bulletins. He wrote to me that he was enjoying his drives and felt a great deal better. But latterly he had not felt so well, and at last he resolved to return to London and consult his medical advisers. He did so, taking up his abode at 19, Harleystreet. Three doctors were called into consultation; and they agreed, I understand, that he might linger for a year or two in suffering without any operation, but that if he submitted to the operation there was a fair chance of his recovery. He was somewhat reluctant, and, from what I can gather, took a very unfavourable view of his own chances, though he was always bright and cheerful. Even a week before his death, when an old New Zealand friend called to see him, he was chatting in a very lively and hopeful strain with his wife and daughters. Bat, from what he has said to me more than once, I am convinced that it was the spirit of courageous resignation that animated him, and that he was fully prepared for the worst. He always expressed his fear that the first operation " did not go deep enough to reach the root of the*mischief." However, ultimately he consented to the second operation, which was only performed on Sunday, February 25, with all possible skill and care. Apparently, however, Mr. Russell's strength had been too seriously impaired to stand the , shock, and he gradually sank, passing away peacefully the next day. His funeral took place on Wednesday, at the Woking Cemetery ; but, as the sad event was known to very few, many of his English friends, who would gladly have paid the last token of respect to his memory, were unable to be present. Mrs. J. B. Russell and the Misses Russell left for Ireland last Saturday ami are staying for a time in Dublin. They have received much sympathy and evidence of kindly feeling since their sad bereavement. Mr. and Mrs. George Beetham have both been suffering from colds due to the change of climate. They have decided to go to Brighton to-morrow amd remain there for a tew weeks in the hope of deriving benefit from a seaside sojourn. The remains of the late Mr. J. B. Russell were cremated at the Woking crematorium. The ashes will subsequently be conveyed to Auckland for interment. I understand that the autopsy showed him to be suffering from complication of internal diseases even . more extensive and serious than had been supposed to be the case. Mr. A. W. Gardner, of Auckland, with Mrs. Gardner and family, arrived a few days ago, by the Ophir, all well. They have gone iato Kent, where Mr. Gardner has taken a house and intends remaining for the present. The Rev. Mr. Cowie, son of the Primate of New Zealand, is at present curate of Gosport, in the South of England. The Rev. Ernest Crombie, formerly of Auckland, a stepson of Captain Ashby, is curate of St. John's, Cowley, near Oxford. • Mr. Charles C. Crombie, another stepson of Captain Ashby—formerly an Auckland boy —has just passed his Loudon examination in biology (a very stiff one), and passed it I hear very brilliantly. He is at Worcester College, Oxford. He is going in for the medical profession, and is considered to have excellent prospects. Mr. Sinclair Gillies, son of the late New Zealand Judge, is winning, I hear, golden opinions at St. Bartholomew's, where he is working very hard. He has got his Fellowship of the College of Surgeons, and is looked on as a coming man in the profession. Mr. J. M. Reid, of Motutapu, returns to New Zealand by direct steamer very shortly. Mr. T. M. Steward and his two daughters have left for Auckland by the Messagervas steamer. Mr. Crawley and his family (including his married son and the wife of the latter), making a party of ten in all, sail for New Zealand in the lonic. Mr. Crawley is well known in connection with the famous "Cambridge Blue." He intends to start the manufacture of perfumes from New Zealand flowersprobacy in or near Auckland. The German line of steamers to Australia are now offering to convey third class passengers to New Zealand for £14 and to Australia for £12! •