The Colonies and India from London, Greater London, England • Page 12

10 THE COLONIES AND INDIA DEC. 3,1892 OBITUARY. Mr. Henry Creswick died at Hawthorn, Victoria, on October 24, aged 68. Surgeon-Major Peter Goodall Lay, Bengal Army "(retired), died at Cairo on November 21.

E. A. Davis, a London man, died at Port Victoria, Mashona- Iand, on October 22, aged 25. Mr. Ernest Hand, of the Indian Telegraph Department, died at Vizagapatam on November 4, aged 42.

Mr. Edward Simpson Byrne, late of the Government service, died in London on November 24, aged 58. Captain Alexander, Chief of the Military Police at Alexandria, Egypt, died there on November 5, widely regretted. Dr. J.

A. Sceberras, Roman Catholic Chaplain" to the Mediterranean Fleet, died at Malta on November 18. Surgeon Henry Walter Hill, of the Bengal Army, died suddenly at St. Helier's, Jersey, on November 22, aged 42. Dr.

Daniel Robertson, late Colonial Secretary and Acting Governor of the Gambia, died at Gateshead-on-Tyne on Nov. 24 aged 79. Mr. Godfrey Stevenson died at Gascoyne, Western Australia, on November 26, aged 24. He was a son of Mr.

Leader Sterenson, of East Putney. Mr. W. H. Routh, Secretary of the Bengal Club, Calcutta, died in Colombo the other day.

Mr. Routh was a son of Commissary. General Routh. Mr. William Fiveash, Past Provincial Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland, died at Adelaide (S.A.) on October 16, aged 67.

Mr. W. S. Scott, manager of Willeroo Station, Victoria River, Northern Territory (S.A.), was speared to death by the blacks at that place the other day. General William Domett Morgan, who for more than 20 years was Commandant of the 32nd Punjab Pioneers, died at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on November 26, aged 71.

Major John Ross, Chief Constable of Aberdeenshire, died on November 28. He served in Burma and the Punjab, and in 1862 was appointed Chief Constable of Aberdeenshire. Mr. Donald C. M'Gregor, of Morangarell station a very old Colonist, died at the homestead on October 12, aged 89.

He went to the Colony in 1834, and had resided on the Bland for 45 years. Mr. James Reid, a well-known Victorian squatter, died suddenly at his Milawa station, near Wangaratta, on October 13. He had been a resident of the North-Eastern district for some 35 years, and was much respected. The death is reported from St.

Helena of Mrs. Marshall, relict of Dr. Marshall, formerly Parish Surgeon of that island. The deceased lady was much esteemed, and her funeral was attended by all the leading members of the community, including the Governor. The death is announced from New York of Mr.

Robert Barbour, the millionaire flax spinner, which occurred at Paterson (N.J.). Mr. Barbour went to America from Ireland in 1864, and was presi- dent of the Barbour Flax Spinning Company. He was interested in the linen works at Lisburn, Ireland. The chief MaDkoroane, who took a prominent part in the events and troubles at the Cape from 1882 to 1885, is dead.

Mankoroanc was one of the chiefs with whom, in August, 1882, a treaty of peace, under which the independence of each chief was to be secured, was concluded on the Transvaal and Griqualand West borders; and later on, in 1884, he was one of the chiefs who entered into a treaty with the Rev. John Mackenzie, when that gentleman, as British Resident in Bechuanaland, on the establishment of a British Protectorate there, travelled over the whole of Bechuanaland south of the Molopo river, being cordially received by the natives, who everywhere expressed their readiness to pay taxes to the Queen. The death ha3 been reported from Dublin of General James Maurice Primrose, C.S.I., who had an important share in the Afghan War of 1879-80, and commanded the Candahar garrison during its investment by Ayoob Khan until relieved on August 31, 1880. The gallant officer joined the army in 1837, became lieutenant-general in 1880, was placed on the retired list with the honorary rank of general in 1882, and died at Dublin on November 25, aged 73. His first war service was against the Kaffirs in 1851-53, including the battle of Berea.

During the Indian Mutiny He was at the surrender of Kirwee, the action of Sahow, and the attack on the heights of Gopulpore, and in Afghanistan he first commanded the first division of the Candahar field force in the campaign of 1879. and then the whole of that force in 1880, including the engagement near Ghirishk. After the relief of Candahar he took part in the battle of September 1. The death is reported from Bombay of a centenarian Parsee lady named Avabai, who died at her home at Barkote Mohla on November 4, at the ripe age of 105 years. Avabai was a great favourite ith the residents of the locality.

Up to very recently she was possessed of a horoscope, which confirmed the story of her having passed a century, but it was destroyed in a fire which burnt her house. It is said that several of her paternal ancestors had very nearly reached a century at the time of their death, her paternal grandmother having lived no less than 103 years. Avabai, therefore, seems to have beaten the record as far as longevity is concerned in her family. Deceased has left a family behind her, her eldest daughter being now about 85 years of age. She was a well- built, stalwart lady.

She could easily move about, and was in possession of all her senses at the time of her death. She was a living history, and narrated the notable local incidents of the century with a precision and power which were the admiration of all who came in contact with her. Dr. Ross, who died at Montreal on November 8, at the comparatively early age of 47, was Vice-Dean and Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, McGill University. Dr.

Ross was well known throughout the Dominion of Canada as a consultant, and had a great reputation as a clinical teacher. He was an acute diagnostician and a clear aad forcible speaker. He commenced as a teacher of clinical medicine at the Montreal General Hospital more than twenty years ago, and held the chair for over fifteen years, attracting large classes of students from all parts of Canada and the United States. He held many important offices: he was President of the Canadian Medical Association, President of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, Governor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Province of Quebec, Dr. Ross was not a prolific writer.

His article on the Paralysis of Typhoid Fever," read before the Society of American Physicians, and his monograph on Aneurysm," which appeared in the Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences," were valuable contributions to those subjects. He contributed many articles to the various societies with which he was connected, most of them appearing in the Montreal Medical Journal, of which he was editor-in-chief. The Maori Going Wrong a letter to Bishop Selwyn, late of Melanesia, Archdeacon Clarke, of Waimate (N.Z.) says that he had recently been present at a gathering of upwards of a thousand Maoris, and spent a week with them. He Intemperance is almost a thing of the past, and the only vice we have to contend against is that of gambling, which invariably accompanies horse-racing, a sport of which most are passionately fond. There is great need not only of a revival spiritually, but also of a radical change socially.

It is distressing to see a fine race such as this decreasing, as it certainly is, and apparently from causes which are not inevitable. Their social habits, improvidence, and utter disregard of all the laws of health are inexplicable. So far from being astonished at the undue mortality which prevails, it is a mystery how so many survive. The strongest European would find it hard to exist if he adopted the Maori mode of life in its entirety." Society of the meetings of the society during the present season papers will be read by Professor George Forbes, F.R.S., on The Utilisation of Niagara;" Mr. Bennett H.

Brough The Mining Industries of South Africa Professor Francis LL.D., Transatlantic Steamships;" Professor Frank Clowes, D.Sc The Detection and Estimation of Small Proportions of Inflammable Gas and Vapour in the Air Mr. William Key, The Purification of the Air Supply to Public Buildings and Dwellings Mr. Walton P. Rix, Pottery Glazes, their Classification and Decorative Value in Ceramic Designs;" Professor W. Noel Hartley, F.R.S, "The Chemical Technology of Oil-boiling, with a Description of a New Process for the Preparation of Drying Oils, and an Oil Varnish Sir William Wilson Hunter, K.C.S.I., LL.D., Ten Years of Progress in India; Sir Edward N.

C. BraddoD, K.C.M.G., Agent- General for Tasmania, "Australasia as a Field for Anglo-Indian Colonisation;" Sir Juland Danvers, K.C.S.I,, late Public Works Secretary, India Office, Indian Manufactures;" Mr. Jervoise Athelstane Bainee, I.C.S., Imperial Census Commissioner for India, Caste and Occupation at the last Census of India Mr. Edward J.Howell, "Mexico, Past and Present;" Mr. Cecil Fane, "Newfoundland Mr.

W. B. Perceval, Agent-General for New Zealand, New Zealand." LONDON COLONIAL WOOL SALES. AT THE WOOL EXCHANGE, Coleman Street, Bales Australasian and Cape, on FRIDAY 25th November; THURSDAY 1st, TUESDAY 6th, SATURDAY 10th, SATURDAY 17th December. Catalogues, in due course, of CHAS.

BALME 61 Basinghall Street, E.C. Also on SATURDAY 3rd December, 1,200 Bales AUSTRALASIAN SHEEPSKINS. "TOR SALE by AUCTION, at the WOOL EXCHANGE, A Coleman Street, on FRIDAY 25th November FRIDAY 2nd, THURSDAY 8th, and FRIDAY 16th December: 45,000 Bales COLONIAL WOOL. By JACOMB, SON Wool Brokers, 61 Moorgate Street. Also a Sale of WOOLLED SHEEPSKINS, on SATURDAY 3rd December..