THE OBSERVER,CARTOON.

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 98, 29 July 1882, Page 307

THE OBSERVER, CARTOON.

■ — — ■« No. 25— Me J. M. Daug-aville, M.H.R. We gave in our issue of December 2 ith a lengthy biography of this gentleman, ancl it is therefore unnecessary to do more on this occasion than notice few of the principal points. Mr Dargaville's father was a physician of some eminence in Cork, who gave his son a liberal education at Fermoy College. The subject of our sketch emigrated to AustraUa, and at the age of 20 became junior clerk in the Union Bank of Australia, Sydney, from which two years later he was promoted to the position of inspector of the branches of the bank on the West Coast of "New Zealand. Subsequently he was removed to a more active and important sphere as manager of fche Auckland branch. Here he soon became struck with the enormous resources of the Kaipara district, and resigned his position in the bank to establish himself in the timber and kauri gum business. He established saw-mills, employed as many as 400 men, built school-houses, churches, and established other institu.'ions in the district, whose rcsourscs and wealth he was foremost in developing. Erom the first he has taken an active interest in politics and in the institutions of Auckland, ancl having by his enterprise and skill become possessed of ample means and leisure, he has lately given much of his time and talents to that field of usefulness. He was a member of the Provincial Council for Auckland City West, chairman of the Parnell Highway Board, a member of the Auckland Harbour Board, a member of the Board of Education, one of the governors of the Grammar School, and chairman of Petty Sessions. He was elected to represent City West in the House of Representatives at the last general elections, and by his shrewdness, business capacity, activity, talent, ancl practical experience of colonial politics, united with a very pleasing address and peculiar adroitness in approaching and reconciling fche varying temperaments of men, he appears destined at no distant date to take ! a leading position in New Zealand politics, and to have an influential share in the government of the Colony.

Messrs Ingram and Co., Hoffmann's Buildings, have reduced the rates of subscriptions to the variousperiodicals received by the firm from America, vide advertisement in this issue. The auction sale of the remainder of the stock from the branch establishment Of the Goldsmith Company, now open- in Queen-street, next Theatre Eoyal will be conducted by Mr Gabriel.Lewis on Friday and Saturday next. On the 25th of April, IS§2, the employes of Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons, of London presented to Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, and Princess Helen of Waldeck, a grand.oblique pianoforte, iv a very ttuittsomo ebonised case, decorated in Adams' style it is seven 1-3 octaves in compass, and contains all the recent improvements of tho firm, including a third pedal that produces most melodious effects, the sound being sustained to an almost indefinite length of time —Horning Post.— Sole Agents for. Auckland, Messr* ■ Hoflmann ancl Sons. .. . ' • - .