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MARCH 19, 1892 THE COLONIES AND INDIA 15 OBITUARY. Mr. Robert Craig, of Brampton died there on February 23, aged 82. Mr. Alex.

Johnston, of London died the other day, aged 75. Dr. J. J. Dugdale, a well-known Montreal Methodist, died recently, aged 58.

The Rev. Canon Davidson, of Colborne died in Toronto on February 18. Mr. E. Britton, an old resident of Belleville died there the other day, aged 86.

Mr. Robert Turner, a well-known citizen of St. John (N.B.), died there on February 16, aged 49. Mr. F.

B. Dyas, of the Royal Indian Marine, died, at Moulmein, Burma, on February 1, aged 23. The death is reported from Halifax (M.S.) of Mr. James King, a well-known contractor, aged 71. Mr.

P. MacOnnachie, of Cannington Canada), died there recently, much regretted. Mr. J. F.

Truscott, eldest son of Alderman Sir Francis Truscott, died in New Zealand on March 10. Mr. Henry H. Haynes, Deputy Inspector-General of Police at Barbados, died on February 20, aged 57. Mr.

Theo. Morlet, son of Mr. J. M. Morlet, of South Norwood, died in the City of Mexico on March 11.

Mr. E. Kittson, of the well-known Hamilton (Ont.) firm of Martin, Kittson Martin, died there last month. Mr. C.

E. Henry, an able and promising young member of the Madras Civil Service, died the other day. Mr. H. D.

Phillips, J.P., late of the Madras Civil Service, died at The Maples, Hampton, on March 9, aged 81. Mr. R. J. Devins, one time senior partner in the Montreal firm of Devins Bolton, died the other day, aged 54.

Mr. Hugh Burgess, late of St. Leonard's, Bucks, died at Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.A., on February 23, aged 68. Mr. C.

E. Egerton, a son of Mr. Walter Egerton, solicitor, of Kensington, died at Singapore the other day, aged 23. Mr. Jos.

Prendergast, C.E., of the Public Works, Department, Bengal, died suddenly at Akhoyapada, Orissa, on March 4. Mr. Jas. Mackenzie, late Collector of Customs of Calcutta, died at Grafton, Salcombe, South Devon, on March 12, aged 72. Mr.

Stanley M. Roome (son of Mr. Henry Roome, of 11 Palace Gate, Kensington) died in Melbourne on March 10, aged 30. Mr. G.

B. Roberts, a well-known Canadian litterateur, and brother to the Canadian poet, died at Wolfville (N.S.) the other day. Mr. Theo. Stewart died at Charlottetown (P.E.I.) the other day.

He was a son of Mr. Charles Stewart, one time Attorney-General of the Province. The death is reported from Sydney of Mr. Joshua Fry Josephson, who was one time a District Court Judge in the Colony. He was 76 years of age.

Mr. H. H. Meredith, a prominent resident of Port Hope died there last month, aged 77. He was a brother of Chief Justice Meredith, of Quebec.

The death is reported from Coquimbo (Chili) of Mr. Joseph Crierson, British Consul and Agent for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company at that place. The Rev. J. Hewlett, M.A., Principal of the London Mission College at Benares, died suddenly on February 21.

He was one of the oldest missionaries in India, and was a Fellow of the Allahabad University. The death is reported from the Lower Congo of Mr. Percy Comber, the well-known missionary. He is the last of the ill-fated family who decided some years ago to devote themselees to missionary work in West Africa. Mr.

Raymond E. Waller was killed by a fall from his horse at Darrawella (Ceylon) on February 13. The deceased gentleman, who was aged 45, was a son of the late Rev. Robert Waller, rector cf Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. Mr.

John Jonas Hart, a well-known and much-respected resident of Kingston, Jamaica, died there on February 12. He was for many years a J.P. of Kingston, and was the eldest son of the Hon. Daniel Hart, Gustos of St. Mary, and formerly a member of the Jamaica House of Assembly.

The death is announced from Sydney of Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Goulburn (N.S.W.). The deceased graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, obtaining his B.A. degree in 1840, and M.A. in 1843; he was made D.D.

in 1863. He took orders in 1840, was curate of Bishop Ryder's Church, Birmingham, 1840-41, and of St. Mary's, Birmingham, 1841-43. From 1843 to 1846 he was vicar of Tuddenham St. Martin, Suffolk, and in 1846 to 1851 held the living of Attleborough, Warwickshire.

Dr. Thomas was consecrated Bishop of Goulburn in 1863 by the late Archbishop Longley. A rather famous character, in the person of Mr. William Tayler, late Commissioner of Patna, died the other day at Hastings, at the advanced age of 84. He was Commissioner of Patna at the time of the Mutiny, and was dismissed, as it was contended by many impartial persons, unjustly from his office.

He received his dismissal at the hands of Mr. (now Sir Frederick) Halliday, who was then Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. The dismissal was approved by Lord Canning, and Mr. Tayler appealed in vain to the Board of Control. The case came before Parliament as recently as June, 1888.

Mr. Tayler had kept his case before the public for a quarter of a century by all sorts of petitions to Parliament, by pamphlets, and by newspaper discussions historians of the Mutiny had referred to the case, and large numbers of eminent Anglo-Indians and Members of Parliament had signed petitions in his favour to the Secretary of State for India and to the Leader of the House of Commons (April 6, 1888). In Anglo-Indian circles the opinion was generally expressed that a cruel and grievous wrong was still unredressed, and that a great scandal in the treatment of an eminent and deserving public servant remained. It was complained at the time that no complete inquiry into the case was ever made. Subsequent information altered the complexion of the case so much that two members of Lord Canning's Council, who had concurred in Mr.

Tayler's dismissal, ackowledged that they were wrong. Mr. Dorm wrote eleven years afterwards to Mr. has shown that Mr. Halliday was wrong and you were right; while General Sir John Low wrote to Mr.

Tayler that the latter's skilful and vigorous management of the disaffected population of Patna was of immense value to the Government of India, and that in the last few months of your commissionership, commencing with the arrest of the Wahabee conspirators and the disarming of the inhabitants of the Patna city, your services were of more vital importance to the public interest than those of many officers, both civil and military who have been rewarded, and justly rewarded, by honours from the Queen while your services, by an extraordinary combination of unlucky circumstances, have hitherto been so overlooked." Sir John goes on to say that the data upon which Lord Canning's Council acted were incontestably proven to be incorrect. The Opium G. H. M. Batten, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, will read a paper on the above subject in the Indian Section of the Society of Arts on March 24, at 4.30 P.M.

The chair will be taken by Sir John Strachey, G.C.S.L Past Passage from the Union Steamship Company's new twin-screw Royal Mail steamer Scot, which left Cape Town on March 2, with the Cape of Good Hope and Natal mails, arrived at Madeira at 9.30 A.M. on March 14. Passage from port to port, 11 days 12 hours average speed, 16 9 knots per hour. This is the fastest passage on record between Cape Town and Madeira. Sir Auckland Colvin in Auckland Colvin recently delivered two speeches in India, both remarkable for that plain speaking and sound common-sense which characterise his public utterances.

Presiding on March 10 at the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the waterworks to be erected at Cawnpore, he pointed out to the municipality the folly of allowing themselves to be misled by injudicious advisers into making a stand against the Government in its efforts to combat indifference and apathetic adherence to old customs. Had they followed such advice, he said, and resisted the proposal to construct these works, they would have had death for their ally, disease for their supporter, ignorance for their guide, and confusion for their reward. On the following day the Lieutenant-Governor took the opportunity, in laying the foundation-stone of a Mahomedan students' boarding-house at Allahabad, to warn the Mussulman community against their besetting stupid adherence to past methods of education, bigoted hatred of foreign creeds, fatuous pride of race, supine indifference and fatalistic submission to what they blindly accepted-as the will of God. In the course of this latter speech Sir Auckland referred to the fact that he had served under a Mahomedan Government, and he spoke in terms of the highest admiration of the late Khedive, especially his courage and calmness during the disturbances of ten years ago. Cable Address "A TIG A SCJIEIt." AUGUST ASCHER, HAMBURG, Sbfppina ano General Bjport ano 3mport Commission Will forward QUOTATIONS, SAMPLES or CATALOGUES for GERMAN GOODS.

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