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New Zealand Mail, Issue 866, 5 October 1888, Page 29

Messrs Turnbull and Co. received cable intelligence on Monday to the effect that the R.M.S. Arawa left Capetown on the afternoon of the 29th ult., bound for Wellington, via Hobart.

Information was received by Inspector Thompson on Monday afternoon that a shed and storeroom, the property ot G. W. Kempton, was destroyed ,by fire at Greytown on Sunday morning. The origin of the fire is unknown. The shed and goods wero insured for £BO in the North German office, and a trap and brake vere insured, for £2O. In the Diocesan Synod Monday night the following resolution was moved by the Bishop, seconded by the Chancellor, ana carried by acclamation The members of this Synod having heard with muoh regret that his Excellency Sir WjUlara Franois Drummond Jervois, K.G.'C^M.G., C. 8., is about to vacate the high office which he has held in this Colony, desire to u expresa their deep sense of the tuaifoVm.. help and sympathy whioh he and hisv family have shown in all matters affecting tlje religious interests and moral welfare of this comrormity; More especially would they- recOriUtheir appreciation of the consistent example which has been set by himself and his family to churchmen in this diocese.” , The -.Bishop of Wellington, the Arohdeacon of Wellington, and the Chancellor of the Diocese were appointed a deputation to present this resolution to his Excellenoy the Governor.* -