LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12027, 25 July 1902, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Sir John Logan Campbell, in writing to the City Council, in acknowledgment of that body's congratulations on hi? receiving the honour of knighthood, said: — Permit me to say. while thanking the Council, that I look upon that honour as mainly the result of the kind estimation and goodwill %vhich my fellow j citizeas have for so long extended towards me, and for which I shall ever feel grateful.."

I The Right Rev. F. .#», Bishop of W4, iington, held a. elation service at 1 Devouport yesterday Jfnoon, when, about *• 40 candidates were #*med. Last evening Bishop Wallis I a confirmation at St. Paul's, where 4fudidates were presented, 22 being frof*- Paul's parish, 14 from Filers) ie and ]lm, five from Mount Itoskill, and one eafrom the Epiphany ' " Church and Jlaukiffhe candidates were presented by Archil™ Calder, th Revs. Canon Nelson, F. *«r, J. M. Devenish aid W. H. Wjlsonfrhe Bishop delivered tvo addresses, one pre and one following th» confirmation. Jre was a large congregation, and the sen *"as a very impressive out Bishop Wall rill attend the Synod ■ service at St. Paul bis morning, and" Will ' give an address. ] -'oes to the country tomorrow, and expei to return to Auckland oh Monday evenin . By the last mail J learn of the death of one of the soldier 'lo was prominent in the Nev : Zealand r and who was well known I) the citi sof Auckland. The Times, i\its nol, says : LieutenantColonel A-tlnir Jo Rait, 0.8., late Royal Artillery, of Anion, Forfarshire, died - suddenly a few da; go. Colonel Rait was the son'of she latiajor James Rait, 15th Hussars, of Annist by his marriage with a daughter of the nil Earl of Airlie, and was born in 1839. H< tered the Royal Artillery in 1857, aid ; subaltern served in the Okamundel can pi of 1859, and was present at the sieja Jwarka and subsequent operations. In New Zealand war of 1863-64 he was i ummand of the drivers of his battery, a g as cavalry, and wa» present at the act at Katikara" skirmishes - at Kerikeri, Puke ?, and Rangiawhia, and engagements at "N mi, where his horse was shot, and Orakai For his conduct in the campaign he was entioned in despatches. In September, 1! he accompanied Lord Wolseley to the 1 Coast on special service, organised " '. 's Artillery," and commanded it tliroiu he Ashauti war. He was several times mtioned in despatches. In June, 1900, ltfpnly son, Lieutenant ' Walter Garnet R; after gning through part of tha South i ;an war with his batta- - ,; lion, the Ist King' wn Scottish Borderers, died of enteric fe\ hi Wynberg Hospital. Colonel Rait is s ived .by bis wife, the youngest daughter the late Hon. Walter Arbuthnott, of on, Montrose, and * - daughter. At a meeting ojhe committee having control of the Coil presentation fund on Wednesday afternrl o draft trust deed,; prepared for tie giince of trustees in ad-' ministering the fund>r the benefit of Mrs. Cowie, was present! by Mr. S. Hesketh, and adopted in atm which giveß the trustees discretion;! power in dealing with the fund Juriikhe lifetime of Mrs, > Cowie, and prondeshr the disposition of any residue in s mher to be expressed by a deed which ills the views of the committee and the ihes of Mrs. Cowie. ' '- | The trustees ippoikd under the trust deed are: Archdead Calder, the Rev. Canon MacMuiray, hd Messrs. H. G, Seth-Smith and W. J Cochrane. 'The contributors to the fid (which leaves a, '•- net sum available \ £1103) numbered about 1400. a striking indication of the esteem felt for the la\ bishop and Mrs, • I Cowie. • \ ' '- The question oiprovidii a proper drain* age system, for P.otorua L discussed afc a public meeting held thV, on Tuesday, and a resolution was paid urging the importance of the matter W the attend . tiou of the Government, Was also resolved to communicate witW members ,' ! of the House of Representees ■ and a -'- committee was appointed to We effect to ■ the resolutions. A report ofche,meeting il will be found in another coluin, . ° t^ Our Maungakarames c\respndent writes: ---The many friends of ftp. 'Jhomas Hunter, J.P., will be sorrt to heaiof lis sud. -'' den death, caused by hear; disease, Ie died • at the residence of his soi-ih-law (Mr J. C. Miller), on July 17, while lying asleep; The deceased was buried at the Man 'erne- ' tew- on the 19th, when the service wasread ' '' by Mr. F. Snell, the Anglican lay-reade, in the presence of a large/number of relates and sympathisers. Matty beautiful wraths were laid on the coffin Mr. Hunter Vas f : 69 years of age, and in the earlier days 'rW at Bendigo and Melbourne. . Tlience he wiafc ' to England, and about « years ago cameta New Zealand and settled,at RuarangL Ufa- ' seven years he was a resilent of Papatdeto*. ' but again returned to RusWngi. Mr. Hth> ter was always energeticW public affairs, " ,' being for six years a memWr of the Whangi -' rei County Council representing the inanga, pai Riding, also as a meinW of the Row! Board and School Committed and as preeii dent of the Farmers' Associibn. The dei ; ceased leaves one son and fiur daughters' " all residing about the district, b mourn theif loss. \ The Government lias notiflel the Auck-' land Brigade Office that th Volunteer capitation grants to defence 4det corps .".ij throughout the colony for the y,ar ending :'* i February 28 last, have been fiiid a, £1 per head. It was recently annoutced thaK I it was the intention of the Government to fix the capitation grant at 5s per heid, ted strong representations were made fAin all J: parts of the colony, pointing out that the amount would be totally inadequate, ! Tae decision arrived at is probably the 'outcome of these representations. i-s i; ■ '■ . i The funeral of the unfortunate man hs.. , Watts, who lost his life while working j* j| the Auckland Gas Company's works >ai \t Tuesday afternoon, took place yesterday .' I; when the body was interred in the W«ki« . I mete cemetery. Among those who attendee, | in addition to relatives, were two brak» F loads of deceased's fellow employees, j' Among the floral emblems sent to be ' |j placed on the coffin were wreaths from the h Auckland Gas Company and the employees, ' deceased having been much respected by those who were associated with him. ;■ The Mount Albert Road Board is calling for tenders for the work of excavating, filling, grading, and forming Onslow Road. This work will be of great service to the .lis* trict, as it will give a good road from Mount Roskill Road to the New North Road, and so form a connecting road between Jhsf? Mount Albert, and Mount Eden districts, and bring the Kingsland railway station | within easy walking distance of Valley Road. ? . ■ "• . . At the meeting of the City Council last evening, a request was received from 1 Messrs. P. Hayman and Co., for the erec« \ tion of a street lamp in front of their pre* y mises, they agreeing the pay the cost.of | the lamp. The request, which was an out- 1 come of the recent attempted burglary at | the firm's warehouse, was granted. I The County of Ohinemuri and thß , , Borough of Waihi not having come to an agreement as regards the division of assets and liabilities on the date of the constitution of the borough, His Excellency 110 - Governor has appointed Mr. George EMton, Government Audit Inspector, to hold an inquiry and make an award under theip ]'k Municipal Corporations Act, 1900. ■ ■ - The city coroner (Mr. Gresham) held an inquiry yesterdav touching the death of the infant female child, Hilda Alice McLean, who died at the residence of her ~ parents, Chelsea, on Wednesday morning last. After hearing the medical evidence g of Dr. H. C. Bennett, who attended.the | child recently, and the statement of the mother as to the -child's delicate state of health from birth, a verdict was returned that death ensued from the imperfect condition of the heart, acted upon by tne diseased state of the lungs. Yesterday afternoon a seaman named Timothy Sumerly, jumped off the BeTonporb ferry tee into the harbour. A buoy was thrown to him, and he was got out none the worse for his immersion. Sumerly was ar- . rested by the police and lodged in the *i« at the barracks on charges of drunkenness aud using obscene language in a public placer At St. Stephen's Native School on W*jv; nesday, with the permission of th. head' master,' Mr. Davis, Mr. W. J. Morgan gave j a lecture on his block system of calculating „Vj timber. The Maori lads were delighted, »•. .... | pecially when Mr. Morgan told them that na j ■ himself was related to the Maori race. !j*»*jgg| explained what manual training mean** 11 , m its origin,- ■ g

Ig* reported i\% the King is to dispose !.;.'... . It is reported tit the King is to dispose of his racing stu and ;to cease owning racehorses. Rietin.has occurred in France *Wing to the closing 2000 teaching places/ •... which had not regtered under the Reli| ■ giousi Associations 'aw. In Paris ova? 260 arrests were mae, including Franco! Coppee, the poet. '.The American Me/t ,- Trust has collapsed. Botha and De la Key, who have nrried at Capetown on ; their way to Europe; were accorded a reception by. the Afrikhders. Botha uied j co-operation between.to two races, andDe ' ]» Key said that thofch the Boers /had j buried their Mausers nd flag, they/had • not buried their tradiions. A Ifitish . Commission has been appointed to nouire L ; ~;'' into the sentences passel in Soutl/Africa while martial law was si' force, an/ to re--1 -, port on the expediency oi reducing or re- . t '. mitting them. In the course of iu. interview in Berlin, Mr. Killner, /ho was Mayor of Bloemfontei; in'l9oo/ eulogised the British conduct oflhe War, And added that annexation assurd freedom progress, and prosperity. Cblera is/raging., in Manchuria. In the flit two Veeks of the present month, 81 Russian! and 363 ffffC'SChinese died. ■':■ '■':{'■;■'. 7 '- "' . 6'> / A solemn pontifical Mass by His Lordship Bishop Lniha/ will be sung ;" in St. Patrick's CaliediUl, Wyndham- , • street, at nine o'clock u Tuesday morning inext for the repose of 1W soul of the late Archbishop Croke. i /sermon by His Lordship Bishop Lenihiv'will be delivered in the Cathedral" on Suiny evening next. A Suez mail which Ft London on June 13 arrived ficm Sydne;by the s.s. Rakaia - yesterday, but* the nes was anticipated ■ by the mails which rtched Auckland by j the mail steamer Sonraa from San Francisco on Monday last'her mails having ; left London on June 1, eight days after the mail which came tj hand yesterday.

Another old identity inssed away yesterday at his residence, Mont St. John, Epsom, in the person of Mi*. William Smith, at the ripe old age of 91 tars. The deceased was a well-known figMrelboufc town, and was formerly for many yearjengnged in business as a grain and piodiicemercuant in Auckland. ; I ,

At the Thames Polje Court yesterday, two young men, namedWm. McAlister and James Hamilton, pleacd guilty to stealing ; » quantity of bottles valued nt ss, the property of Robert Turner; a second-hand dealer, and were sentnced to two mouths' imprisonment with hrd labour.

At Mangatu. Nortkrn Wairoa, last Friday, a child named &rah Hazel Wormald, two years old, died 4 the result of eating a quantity of matchei on the Sunday previous. The parents lid not at the time think that a sufficieit number of matchheads had been ea!en to endanger the Child's life, but the Ittle one became worse oh the 18th, and Dr. Purchas was summoned. The child/ however, died before medical aid arrived 1 An inquest was held, and a verdict of accidental poisoning returned. ■ /

; k .On Sunday '-last a fire occurred in a . wbare near Netlerton, occupied by a man '• named Jas. Richmond, his wife, and two .:-'. children, and tie occupants had a narrow escape from losing llieif Jives. The family had retired to bed. and were only awakened > by the roof ol the burning whare failing ' ( ill oh them, the building at this time being ;•', all in a blaze. It is supposed that the Are • was caused by the kerosene lamp left on tnfe table capsizing. The children were got ©tit by. the parents, but all except the youngest child were more or less burned, though fortunately not to a sufficient extent t« endanger their lives. Nothing was saved from the building.

• The London Express has the following as a despatch from San Francisco :—"The King of. Manua, a South Sea ; Islands-potentate, under the rule of the United States, resents the attitude of' the Suzerain, Government in supporting a decision'of th» High Court of Tutuila as to the proper manner of serving out" kiiva," the native beverage of the South Sea Islands. This, in itself, may seem a .•■■■trifling■thing, but the real root of the matter is that there is'a long outstanding quarrel between the Mamians ; and the Tutuilans. The latter have offered "their entire army " to the United States, and they want to depose the cantankerous King." ■,■»' The Victorian Dairymen's Association objects to a revival of the question of grading factory butter or cream by Government inspectors, as proposed by the director of agri- | culture. It is claimed by that body that. "With very few fxeeptisHs, cream purchased by country factories is always iu sound con- , dition, but the cream which is sent hundreds of miles by rail to Melbourne is'responsible 'for a lot of the inferior butter placed on the local market, and exported to England and where.

,■ There were several persons in the lockup last night on charges of drunkenness and Other minor offences. There were no charges of a serious nature.