AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1641, 6 January 1906, Page 3

AUCKLAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, last n’ght. Obituary : Mr James Muir,‘for rnaoy p years obairman of tbo Education Board, iand Goorgo Bayne?, bqtohor, ono of tho 1 oldest and moat ptpuhr reaidontg of 1 Parnell. , , At tho Polico Court, Mati Uoksiob, an Austrian, Wts charged with sly-grog selling on Sunday in a Wyndham street ehap. Ho was eontouoed to six months imprisonment. Aoousod ou loaving the d ok, rnshod and punched a witness named Sheehar', and then fell in a fit. When ho recovered consciousness ho was eonfenced to n further term of fourtosu day?.

Richard Bennett, an arrival by tho S.nnma yesterday, was found dead in his bedroom at tho Waitemata hotel this morning, apparently from hemorrhage of i the lungs. Deooased ha) a sister iu Christchurch. Tbo posiiiou of aotiug warden of St. John’s College has been offered to tha Rov. Peroy Williams, and it is understood ho will accept tho appointment. The College is under tho oontrol of tho General Synod, and tho matter will come

up for further oonsiloratiou when the ! Synod moet) in 1937. Mr Williams ia very well known in Auokland. Ho was born at tho Bay of IsWncb, and was eduoated nt Christchurch. New Zoaland, I and Catnbridgo University, where ho took h's M.A. degree. Ho was ouvata of St. Barlho'omow’s, Southfield, for about two years, and on returning to New Zealand was curate of St Sepulchre's, Auckland, under tho late Archdeacon .Dudley- Ho subsequently joined tho Melanesian Mission, but his work on the Islands was interrupted by an attaok of fever, and ho cime back to Now Zsaland for a t : ma.

On his recovery ho resumed work in Melanesia. Abont three months ago ho re turned to tbo oolony. Mr Willioms, as curate of St. Sepulchre’s mado many friends, and showed very plainly that ho thoroughly understood young meD, and | was understood by thorn. He takes a keen interest in athletics, and was at ono tirno a prominent momber of the Grafton football club.