OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XIX, 7 November 1896, Page 10

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE FOUNDER OF THE DILWORTH INSTITUTE. PUBLIC attention, outside of Auckland, has been directed to the Dilworth Institute by the fact of the trustees having unsuccessfully applied for a remission of the stamp duties on the estate. Our illustration is a picture of the tomb erected to the memory of the munificent donor. The late Mr Dilworth, who was an old lesident of Auckland, had, at the time of his death accumulated, chiefly in land, property to the value of about £l lO,OOO. Of this sum £ 10,000 or so was bequeathed in legacies to his relatives, in donations to the Y.M.C.A. and the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, and in annuities to the Anglican Country Clergy’s Fund and the Auckland Kindergarten. The remainder he left for the founding of an institute which would afford maintenance, education, and training for young boys of the province of Auckland or of Ulster, Ireland. The heavy preliminary expenses in connection with the management of the bequest have prevented the trustees from beginning the building of the institute on the land intended for it, but they hope at no very distant date to be able to do so. THE TROUT SEASON. The River Matai at Nelson is an excellent little trouting stream. The fish are not very large, but they are numerous. On the first of last month, the opening of the trouting season, Messrs E. A. Sherwood and J. E. Hounsell, two enthusiastic anglers in the district, made two splendid baskets. Between 6.30 in the morning and 3' p.m. they landed between them 96 trout, weighing yolbs. Mr Sherwood’s catch numbered 59 fish, scaling 4ilbs., and Mr Hounsell’s 37 fish, weighing zglbs. DIVING EXTRAORDINARY. Some wonderful stories are related of the power to remain for a long period under water manifested by natives in the pearl fisheries. But an instance which was lately published exceeds anything we have ever heard. A vessel trading in some of the Pacific groups ran on to a coral reef and staved a big hole in her bottom. Fortunately, the damage was not so great as to defy the pumps, but the captain was at his wits’ end for some way to repair the injury. There are no graving docks in that part of the world, he dared not beach the ship, and he could not effectually repair it from within. Knowing the capability which some of the natives have for remaining under water for a time that would seem incredible to Europeans, he engaged two of the most expert men. Supplied with tools and materials, they were lowered over the side, and effected the repairs in a most satisfactory manner. They seemed to work quite easily under water, and only came occasionally to the surface to breathe.