LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1696, 31 August 1904, Page 58

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A London cable message states that the late Mr Wilson Barrett’s estate is valued at £38,862. The Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company has accepted the tender of Mr Bern 11, Carterton, for the manufacture of Butter-boxes for the coming season. “Since Victoria College is to receive ■ * or buildings alone, the request of Auckland for £20.000, to be devoted to a similar purpose, is modest enough,” the Auckland “Herald” thinks. iMr T. W. Sparks, bandmaster of the Carterton Band, received various piesentations from Carterton residents on Saturday, on the eve of his departure from that town to settle in Wellington. The death is announced from Auckland of Mr I. J. Burgess, aged eighty years. The deceased entered the colonial service as first officer of H.M. brig Victoria. After that he became chief pilot and harbourmaster at Auckland. On June 30th, at St. Luke’s Church, Leicester, Miss Jessie Chisholm, eldest daughter of Mr Robert Chisholm, formerly branch manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Invercargill and Timaru, was married to Mr Leonard Frank Webb, surveyor, formerly cf Wellington and Masterton. The ceremony was performed by the Rev Dr Leadbetter. Amongst the gifts presented to the British footballers at Rotorua by the natives was an old mere, which was handed to the British captain. It is stated that this mere was so prized by tlie original owners that they had several times refused to part with it to guests of honour. The railway line between Maugaweka and Taihape will be open for passenger traffic on Saturday, the 10th prox., on which day that section will be formally taken over by the Railway Department from tire Public Works Department. Taihape is thirteen miles from Mangaweka. A start was made on Monday morning with the excavation work in connection with the .erection of the Queen’s statue in the Post Office triangle. The position selected is immediately opposite the office of Messrs Munt and Cotta-ell, in the Queen’s Chambers, between the horse-trough and the tramway line. The pedestal, which is being supplied by-tlxo City Council, is to be seventeen feat high, and will consist of thirty tons of Aberdeen granite, arranged in steps to the foot of the statue itself. The granite is at present in Wellington. We have received from the ViceConsul for Japan in Wellington, with the compliments of the Hon Y. Saltatani, Vice-Minister of Finance at Tokio, a copy of “ The Financial and Economical Almanac of Japan” for 1904. This gives a very full statistical account of the Japanese Empire, and strikingly shows the enormous advances made during the past twenty-five years. An excellent coloured map and diagrams are embodied in the work, which is turned out in very fine stylo from the Government Printing Office at Tokio, in which establishment, by the way, about three thousand persons are employed at paper-making, type-setting, and printing. A cablegram from London announces the death of the Very Rev Samuel Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester, aged eighty-four years Deceased was born in Notts, and was educated at the Grammar School, Newark-on-Trent, and at Brasenose College. Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1844, priest-the following year, and vicar in 1850. In 1885 he was appointed chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury. During the succeeding -year he was select preacher to the University of Oxford. In 1887 he was appointed Dean of Rochester. Deceased was a great devotee of horticulture. His literary works were by no means few, and among these were several publications dealing with the management of gardens. He was a medallist of the Royal Horticultural Society and Fellow of the Stockholm and Portugal Horticultural Societies. Mr Frederick Black, A.M.LE.E., of Christchurch, has just returned to New Zealand after nine years spent in electrical engineering in the United States and England, having been appointed sole agent in the colony by Dick, Kerr and Co., Ltd., London, Preston and Kilmarnock, manufacturers of electrical machinery and mining plant, the Western Electric Company, North Woolwich and London, manufacturers of electrical wires and cables, and other wellknown firms. Mr Black, who was for some years engineer in charge of the lighting and traction construction works of the British Electric Traction Company, and has had wide experience in the preparation and carrying out of schemes for electrio lighting and traction in various parts of England, is spending a few days in Wellington, prior to touring the North Island, with the view of investigating the field for his operations. One of the latest developments carried out by Mr Black’s firm, Dick, Kerr and 00., Ltd., and studied by him just before leaving England, was the conversion of a considerable portion of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway system to electrical working, an enterprising experiment that is being watched with Hie keenest interest by other railway companies in Great Britain.

The total number of passengers carried on all lines of the Auckland electric tramways on the day of the BritishAuokland football match was 81,117. This is a record for the company, as it ri 117 more than the number earned on the “people's day” of the last agricultural show in Auckland.

Mr Joseph Paul, of Wanganui, whose death was reported on Wednesday, was well known in Wellington, where be was at one time a member of the firm of TMoDowell and Co., and later carried on a drapery business on his own account in Crib a street. His death was unexpected. He left bis shop at 5 o’clock in the evening in the best of spirits and apparently in as good health as could be wished. He drove home, had tea, and was playing at the table with his little ones, when, without the least warning, he sank back in his chair and expired. Medical aid was summoned, but the doctor could do no more than pronounce life to be extinct.