IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 11, 1 August 1900, Page 12

IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

The Most Reverend William Garden Cowie, THE MOST REVEKEND M " A " D ' D " ( Cam " WILLIAM GARDEN bridge and Oxford),

COWIE, M.A., D-D. Bishop of Auckland' and Primate, in the Church of the Province of New Zealand, was consecrated in Westminster Abbey, London, on St. Peter's Day, June 29th, 1869, the con-

secrating Bishops being Archbishop Tait,of Canterbury, Bishop Jackson, of London, Bishop Browne, of Ely,and Bishop Selwyn, of Liohfield, with others. On

leaving New Zealand in 1868, Bishop Selwyn was entrusted by the Diocesan and the General Synod with the responsibility of sSJlgcting his own successor, and he accordingly chose Mr. oow ie, then rector of Stafford. Mr. Oowie took his B.A. degree in 1855 at Cambridge, where he was a Scholar of his college, and obtained the English and Latin essay prizes. He was in the First Class of the civil law tripos and of the theological

Viceroy of India, and afterwards to Sir Neville Chamberlain's column against the Afghan tribes. For th,ese services in the field he received from Her Majesty two medals, with clasps for Lucknow and Umbeyla. From 1864 to

examination of the University. After holding curacies in Cambridge and Suffolk, he was, in 1857, appointed a chaplain to Sir Colin Campbell's army, then advancing to the siege of Lucknow. He crossed the River Goomti on March 6th, 1858, with the column commanded by Sir James Outram,

and remained ■with that General until the capture of the city. Before leaving Luck-

now he accompanied the flying column, under Sir Hope Grant, who defeated the rebels at Coorsee. In April and May following he was present at the

disastrous assault of Rooyah, the battle of Aligunj,and the capture of Bareilly with Sir Colin Campbell. In 186 3, Mr.

Cowie was chaplain to the

camp of the

1866 Mr. CWie was resident and examining chaplain to Bishop Cotton, of Calcutta, Metropolitan of India. In 1867 he was presented by the Lord Chancellor to the Rectory of Stafford, where he remained until his departure for New Zealand. The Bishop and Mrs. Cowie reached Auckland in February, 1870, and have never since been out of the colony except when, in 1888 and 1897, the Bishop went to England to attend the Lambeth Conference. In 1895 he was elected to the office of Primate of the Church by the General Synod of the province of New Zealand. During the thirty-one years of his episcopate the number of the clergy in the diocese of Auckland has increased from twenty-eight to eighty-five, and the work of the Church has extended proportionately. The Bishop has been a member of the University Senate since 1879, and of the Council of the Auckland University College since its foundation in 1883. In the latter year he began the work of the Sailors' Home, and in 1889 the work of the Institute for the Blind. There is no part of the Diocese — from the North Cape to Stratford — in which the name of Mrs. Cowie is not known in connection with works of charity, public and private.

In the lecfcure-room Mr. Campbell gave occasional glimpses of his experiences in Australian mining camps and backwoods, proving that ho was equally afc homo in orthodox clerical garb and tlio hum bio moleskins of the bushman. To his varied experiences and intimate knowledge of life

The Rev. Joseph Campbell, who has just

BEY. JOSEPH CAMP- -^ Auckland to take BELL. M A., P.C S., F.G.B. char * c of a district in

the Canterbury Diocese, has been well known here as a minister of the Gospel and a mineralogist, in the former capacity as Acting Vicar of St. Sepulchre's during the absence of the Incumbent, and in the latter as the introducer of a new process for the extraction of gold from refractory ores at Te Aroha. His intimate knowledge of geology assisted him materially, doubtless, in the preparation of a course of sermons which he published illustrating in a very practical manner the intimate relations between religion and science, thus explaining incontestably seeming incongruities and biblical difficulties by the aid of science.

in all its phases, together with his evident .belief that an occasional dash of humour is by no means out of place in the pulpit, ho owes his great popularity and usefulness as a preacher. Beforo coming to Auckland Mr. Campbell held the position of Principal of St. Nicolas Oollego at Rand wick and Vicar of Coogee.

♦ The present Mayor of Punodin, Mr. Robert Chisholtn, is tho ME BOBEBT . ' L CHISHOLM. managing director of the Scoullar and Chisholm Co. (Limited). He is one of tho many examples of what a determined and

persevering man can do in a new country. Mr. Ohisholm came of the race who have made Dunedin what it is — the ideal business city of a thriving agricultural and mining

Mayor of Roslyn, and Dunedin City Councillor, assured his late election for the Dunedin Mayoral Chair by a very large majority, Ms opponent being Mr. W. Swan, the late Mayor.

The present organist of Knox Church, Dunedin, is a talented ME. ARTHUR J. . . ' T . BAR.TH- musician. He commenced his musical education at the early age of seven, and a little later had the advantage of I'eceiving nine years' tuition from the noted pianist, Mr. John Francis Barnett, followed by lessons from Dr. Wylde, at the London Academy of Music, of which he afterwards became an Associate, and in due time Professor and Examiner. At the age of 21 lie commenced to organise a series of grand concerts at St. George's Hall, which

community. Sailing from the Clyde, Mr. Chisholtn as a lad of fifteen landed in Otago in 1858. He started his colonial career by tending cows for a dairyman, little dreaming at the time that he would live to see the ground on which they pastured a portion of a busy city. Ten years later he joined the firm of North and Scoullar, then carrying on business in a building known as the Old Shakespeare Hotel. The present warehouse stands on the same site. He was admitted as a partner on the retirement of Mr. North in 1880, and in course of time attained his present position. Mr. Chisholm has always taken a practical interest in educational, civic and charitable institutions. His honourable discharge of the duties involving on him at different periods as Chairman of the Roslyn School Committee, the Otago Benevolent Society, Charitable Aid Board and District Hospital Board, Visiting Justice of the Dunedin Gaol, President of the Retailers' Association, Roslyn Borough Councillor,

he continued for several years, assisted by some of the best musical talent of the day. He also found time to appear in his capacity

as pianist at the Crystal Palace, St. James' Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. As an organist prior to his leaving London in 1881 for New Zealand, he held positions in several of the principal churches. Mr. Barth settled inDunedin,andhas since his arrival officiated as organist in St. Matthew's, All Saints', and latterly at Knox Church. With regard to his abilities as a music teacher, the proficiency of many of the pupils he has instructed, and the numbers entrusted to his care speak volumes to his credit. Mr. Barth for some time conducted the Choral Society and Liedertafel, but had to resign as his pupils take up so much of his time. He also acts as head secretary in Dunedin for Trinity College, London.

During the last few months numerous meetings have boon hold THE MAOKIS . tl * . . AND THEE& fe e ■^- ftOVIH in vanoua LAND TROUBLES. P arts of tllis Island to

arrange a programme of action, and to select delegates to attend before the Native Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives in support of the Bill which they ask to havo passed. At the most important of theso meetings, which was attended by tho Premior, at Huntly, it was arranged that the agreoment made last year that tho Premier and King Malmta should settle the form of the Bill to bo submitted to the House, should be adhered to. The Premier promised Mali u tit that he would reintrodueo the Bill of 18!)!), and

give the natives an opportunity to suggest amendments. The result of the various meetings has been to draw up amendments to the Bill which the Maoris anticipate the Government will accept, and the delegates who proceed to Wellington are armed with a monster petition to Parliament praying that the Bill as amended be passed. As the satisfactory solution of the Native Land question is of great importance to the North Island, it is to be hoped that some practical work will be done in Wellington by the Maori delegates, who have been carefully selected as representing the various Hapus and tribes of the

instructions, and power to meet the Premier half way in any points of difference. This is to be done with a view to the immediate opening up of their waste lands in the King Country for settlement. They are fnlly alive to the dangers of delay, and of allowing these lands to lie idle and become overrun with brambles, sweet briar, gorse, and the dreaded blackberry, which the birds are spreading far and wide ; they are also anxious to derive benefit from the rent of lands leased, and purchase money of land sold. The opening up of these lands is of vital importance to the colony. It means not only greatly increased exports of produce,

join them. On the frontpiece may be seen King Mahuta and those members of his Council who have been chosen to go to

Wellington in support of the Bill, which Mr. Henare Kaihua] is holding in his hand, and which the Maoris now claim'as Mahuta's Bill. The Bill, which was drawn in 1899 by Mr. John St." Clair, Mahuta's solicitor, and approved by the Crown Law Draftsman, Dr. Fitchett, was'introduced last session by the Premier, but was thrown out ou second reading on the motion of Mr. Lewis, M.H.R. It provided that the Maoris, in all cases where their lands were held under perfect titles to not more than 20 natives, could, under proper protection against fraud, alienate their lands. In cases of land owned by over 20 natives, they had the option of subdividing the block, or the land conld be administered through a Council of Maoris and Europeans appointed by the Governor. The principal amendments embodied by Mahuta's Council in the Bill, are in the direction of separating the Administrative functions of the Council from the Judicial.

The Local Council is to consist of ono European judge and two native associates. In matters of law the decision of the European is to overrule that of the native assessors, but in Maori customs, if the two Maori members are unanimous, they are to overrule the judge, but if divided, the judge is to have a casting vote. Instead of the present cumbrous and expensive procedure of the Nativo Land Court, Native District or Hapu Committees are to be formed to investigate and report to the Couiicil, if no caveat is lodged against such report, the Council is to mako an order thereon. There will also be an Appellate Court consisting of tho Presidents of the District Councils and an equal number of elected Maori members, who will hear appeals from tho decisions of the District Councils, and regulate thoir procedure as nearly as possible to that of the Supreme Court of Appeal. Instead of the Native Laud Court procedure, by which

numbers of Maoris are kept in country towns for months awaiting their cases being called, the District Council will hear cases in which caveats are lodged against the report of the

Maori Committees at the Maori settlement nearest to the block in question, so that unless a case is disputed, it will cost the natives and the colony only a few shillings for the preparation of the necessary order. In the Maangatautari Block of 44,000 acres there are about 170 succession cases, pending which the Kauhanganui has already investigated ; and had the present Native Land Court the power and inclination to give effect to the reports of the Kauhanganui, the whole of these orders could be completed as quickly as the clerk could record them, instead of, as at present, perhaps occupying the Court for two or three months, to say nothing of the numerous appeals which would arise. One important provision of Mi-. Kaihau's Bill is that before any native is allowed to alienate land, either by lease or sale, he has to have reserved by the District Council a portion of his land sufficient for the support of himself and his family. Had the Government, while pretending to befriend

the Maori, and buying up every acre he possessed, as has been done of late years in the King Country and the North, insisted in each seller being first provided with an inalienable reserve, there would have been no cry as at present for land for landless natives, and but few Maoris would have been eligible for the Old Age Pensions which they are now receiving. The opponents of the Bill have stated that Mahuta, and his chiefs are landless Waikatos and have no right to take part in the coming legislation, but on examing the names and tribes of the delegates it will be seen that they are representatives of tribes who are still large landowners. The two veteran Maoris, Patai^a te Tuhi and Honana Maioho, whose photos are given above and are also included in the group of delegates, are uncles of the King. Pat.ara te Tuhi has always been noted as a strenuous advocate of peace. His services in this respect were of great value at the time of the Maori War.

KING MAHUTA TAWHIAO AND HIS WELLINGTON DEPUTATION

North Island. The Maoris claim the righ^ to control and administer their lands as preserved to them under the Treaty of Waitangi ; also in virtue of their being British subjects under the Constitution Act. Mr. Henare Kaihau, who acts as the mouthpiece of the Maori King, and has for some years been conducting the negotiations between the Kingite natives and the Government, is confident that a reasonable compromise has been already arrived at, and that a final settlement of outstanding difficulties can be made this session. King Mahuta does not go to Wellington at present, but sends the piok of his Council with his

but supplying at the same time the everincreasing demand which exists for land for the rising generation to settle on. Mr. Henare Kaihau proposes to prevent the land falling into the hands of land sharks and speculators by limiting the area of holdings to 640 acres of first-class land, as under the Land Act. The Maori delegates, on their way to Wellington, visit the aged tohmga chief, Te Whiti, at Parihaka, where the Taranaki tribes sign the petition in support of Mr. Kaihau's Bill, from thence they proceed to a meeting at the celebrated meeting house known as " Taiporohenui " near Patea, where the Taranaki delegates