CHRISTCHURCH NEWS NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12393, 1 July 1902, Page 5

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS NOTES.

(From Otm Own ConnsspoNMNi,) CHRISTCHUROH, June So. Tho fcport of the Representation Oomi mission has not ybt been made public, but Truth understands fr6m Mr 0. W. Russell, who 101 l for Wellington on Saturday night,' that As ono result of the CbrhmiMion's labours an extra seat is to lioallotted to Canterbury. Tho now seat will' be purely ft farmers seat, and will iheliidn that district onelosed, roughly spcakiug,. in tht triangle of wnich' HaWell, Leaston, and Courtenay nto tho extreme points. A portion of Riccarton goes to form the n«W constituency, nttd ti portion df iU Avon district is added oh to RieCartOn, while Linwood is added to tlto Avon Seat In Compensation. Mr G. ff. Ruswll intimated before letving for Wellington that he would ijtil! ho a candidate (ot Riccarton. Mr Charles Lewis intends linnouddltfg lfim6olf as a candidate for tlin new scat, , , Tho death nf Cnhon Colterill, which occurred about half-past ll this mottling will bo mourned hy many. • Tho dec»asea who Was in his eighty-sevcnUi year had been ill Weak health for four or five years past, ithd during tho last year or so ho had to be wheeled out in an invalid's chair. A fow (lays lie wan taken seriously ill with bronchitis, and it was hardly oxpected from the first that with his advanced years he would bo nbh to withstand the disease. Special prayers were offered for liim nt both services at St. _ Michael's. The late Row George Cottcritl was educated at Rugby School, and in 183? took his B.A. degrco' at Cambridge, and to second of the senior optimce, tho second class in the mathematical tripos. Ho was ordained deacon in 1830 and priest in. 1833. In 1836 lie was appointed curato of Entlhnm (Norwich), ancf in 1839 vicar of Earihnm and curate of CWney. H« hold the latter positions until 1848, when he camn to New Zealand, and was officiating 'minister of th» Diocoso ofChristchurch from 1851 till 1859. In 1857 Canon Cotterill was appointed second master at Christ's College, t i)nd before the' cud of 1860 ho became house wwter, which position ho continued to hold until 1863, when he retired, owing to illhealth.