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SEPT. 24, 1892 THE COLONIES AND INDIA 13 OBITUARY. Mr. H. P.

Cornwall, of Ashcroft (B.C.), died there on August 15, aged 54. Mr. H. E. C.

Beaver, of Johannesburg (Transvaal), died there on August 26, aged 47. The Hon. Elisea Dionne, M.L.C., of Quebec, died there the other day, much regretted. Mr. Samuel Marlston, a well-known Greymouth (N.Z.) merchant, died there on July 21.

Mr. Eichard William Newman, of Buninyong (Victoria), died there on July 30, aged 70. Baron Angiolina Attard Montalto died at Valetta, Malta, on September 5, much regretted. Mr. George Vesey Stewart was drowned at Kati Kati (N.Z on July 23.

He was 31 years of age. Mr. Stewart Murray, late of the Oriental Bank, Sydney (N.S.W.), died in Edinburgh on September 11, aged 66. Major Frederick Stevens Dimond, of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, died at Murree, India, on September 4, aged 36. Dr.

E. H. Leger, who represented a New Brunswick electorate in the Dominion Parliament, died at St. John the other day. The death is reported from Grahamstown, Cape Colony, of Mr.

Arthur Dufiield, of the well-known firm of Duffield Brothers. Mr. Alfred Alexander, one of the earliest arrivals on the Witwatersrand Gold Fields, died at Johannesburg the other day. Mr. Alexander Mackenzie, of Beaconsfield, Victoria, but formerly a planter at Haputale, Ceylon, died the other day while on a visit to the latter Colony.

Mr. J. T. Mulvany, C.E., died at Bay View, Kati Kati (N.Z.), on July 25, aged 71. He was at one time District Engineer of the Board of Public Works in Ireland.

The death is reported from Toronto of Captain Elia SniGer, an old resident of York County. He was among the followers of William Lyon Mackenzie in the rebellion of 1837. Mr. Henry Mitchell, formerly a prominent broker in Kimberley, Cape Colony, and before that well-known in Grahamstown as a man cf business, died at Johannesburg on August 23. Stoffel Angelbracht, the first man wounded on the Boer side in the independence war at Potchefstroom, died at Venterskroon the other day.

His wound was the indirect cause of death. Father Howland, of the Jaffna (Ceylon) American Mission, died at Batticotta, in that Colony, on August 26, aged 75. He was an able preacher and belonged to a well-known missionary family. Mr. T.

K. Pater, the well-known Adelaide (S.A.") Police Magistrate, and held the position of Judge in the Northern Territory for many years, died in Adelaide the other He had the largest funeral ever known in South Australia. The death is announced, at Sandgate, at the residence of her daughter, Lady Keyes, of Charlotte, eldest daughter of the late, Mr. Henry Wylie, and widow of Mr. James Norman.

She was mother of Sir Henry Wylie Norman, Governor of Queensland, and of Sir Francis Norman. Captain Kling, a rather distinguished German explorer of East Africa, died in Berlin on September 15 from a fever contracted on the East Coast. He only returned home a short time ago, after an arduous expedition into the Hinterland of the Togo country. His death is a great loss to the German Colony in East Africa. The Rev.

Henry Press Wright, Rector of Greatham, late Archdeacon of British Columbia and Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge, died at Laurel Bank, Hill Brow, near Peterstield, the other day. The deceased, who was over eighty years of age, was taken ill whilst away for a few weeks' holiday. On his return he took up his residence at Hill Brow, instead of at Greatham Rectory. Mr. Cecil Richard Hervey, whose death in Otahuhuncar, Auckland (N.Z.), on July 24, we heard of by wire and duly chronicled some time ago, was a son of Lord Arthur Hervey, and was at one time a stipendiary magistrate in Fiji.

Previous to going to the Pacific he lived for some time in the Mauritius. The deceased gentleman, who was 43 years of age, had gone down to New Zealand for the benefit of his health. Mr. John Windeyer, of Kinross, Raymond Terrace, Hunter River (N.S.W.), died there recently. He was the only surviving son of the late Mr.

Archibald Windeyer, who purchased Kinross in 1840, and lived there until his death, since which time it was Mr. John Windeyer's home. As a magistrate he was just and attentive to all his duties, considerate as a landlord, courteous, genial, and warmly hospitable, yet all in a most unostentatious manner. He was related to Sir William Windeyer, one of the Puisne Judges of the New South Wales Supreme Court. Mr.

Frederick Astell Lushington, who died at Roziere, near Lyndhurst, Hants, on September 20, was a distinguished member of the East India Company's service, Bengal, in which he was employed in various departments between the years 1835 and 1862, when he retired on a pension. He was the youngest son of Sir Henry Lushington, second Baronet, of Aspenden Hall, Hertfordshire, by his marriage with Frances Maria, daughter of Mr. Matthew Lewis, sometime Under Secretary of State for War, and was born in the year 1815, so that he was in his 77th yeaT. He was a magistrate for Hampshire, and married, in 1846, the Lady Margaret Hay, daughter of the 15th Earl of Erroll, by whom he has left a family. THE EXCHANGE QUESTION" IN BOMBAY.

The special meeting of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, held on September 14, produced an animated discussion on the exchange question. It was called on the requisition of certain members for the purpose of obtaining an expression of opinion on a resolution proposed by them, which, while carefully abstaining from recommending bimetallism, a gold standard, the closing of the mints, or any other remedy, declared that the frequent violent fluctuations in the sterling value of the rupee constituted a grave danger to com- meice and seriously checked the development of the country by means of European capital, and therefore that the Government be requested to submit the subject to a commission of experts. The committee of the Chamber met the resolution by an amendment which also proposed the reference of the subject to a commission of experts, but eliminated all words implying that the present state of the currency was an evil. Several gentlemen spoke on both sides. Mr.

Miller, a merchant, who proposed the resolution, devoted his speech chiefly to showing how much uncertainty the fluctuations of the rupee imported into commercial business, while the seconder, Colonel Bisset, agent of the Bombay and Baroda Railway, dealt with their effect on railway enterprise. Mr. Symons, president of the Chamber, and the Hon. Mr. Beaufort were the chief speakers on the other side.

They argued at considerable length that the low exchange was beneficial to export trade, and attaoked the various remedies which had been proposed during the last few months. On the question being put to a vote, the amendment was lost, and the original resolution carried by 26 votes against 18. The Bombay Chamber of Commerce, therefore, like so many other public bodies in India, now stands pledged to the opinion that the present state of the currency is a danger to the country, and although it has not committed itself to any particular remedy, still the resolution it adopted will strengthen the hands of the large and increasing section of the public who are urging the Government to take immediate action. Nothing further has been heard of the counter agitation which, it was reported, some Calcutta merchants were about to organise, and it would appear that the idea has been dropped. Bain Gambling in Bombay police are just now engaged in prosecuting rain gamblers in the local in the hope of showing that the present law is sufficiently wide to include this form of gambling.

A Calcutta journal says that the rainy season is the period when this form of betting flourishes. In Calcutta the scene of operations is in a street in Burrabazar, where there is a small tank, 4 feet square and 6 inches deep, into which an ordinary spout discharges rain water from the roof of a three- storeyed house. The end of the spout just overlaps the edge of this small tank, and the weighty question with the gambler is whether or not the tank will overflow. In this respect the method differs from that which prevailed in Bombay, when the fall of sufficient rain to run from a spout, in no matter how small a quantity, was the criterion. In Burrabazar the business is conducted on a sufficiently large scale to furnish ample employment to a number of Marwari bookmakers, who are careful to insist upon the deposit of all bets in cash.

The premises belong to a partnership, and a commission of one anna per rupee is levied on all bets. It is alleged that on busy days several lakhs of rupees change hands, and the conductors of rain gambling must find the business a lucrative one. The gambling is conducted openly, and with every appearance of fairness, so that the losers may be said to have only themselves to blame. Telegraphic Safety," Eedruth. THREE GOLD MEDALS, 1884-5-6.

TWO GOLD MEDALS, STEW OBLEAKS, U.S.A..