DIED,

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 304, 28 April 1849, Page 3

DIED,

Ou Tuesday eTeninpr, 24th initant, Charles Edward, eldest ton of C. W. Ligar, Esq., Surveyor-General, Aged eleven yean. Jit hit residence, Parnell, near Auckland, on Wednesday, the 25th initant, after ten daya suffering from acute dyientery, Thomas Ringrosk Atkyns, Esq., J.P., Inspector of Armed Police, in the 39th year of his age. Captain Atkyni' early career was passed in the service of the Emperor of Austria and of the •Queen of Portugal, and by both of those Sovereigns bis services were rewarded with honours. He arrived in this colony in the year 1843 ; and during the panic occasioned at Auckland by the sacking of Kororareka in the year 1845, upon the raising of a Volunteer Rifle Company, he was unanimously chosen Captain, and upon the enrolment of the Auckland Battalion of New Zealand Militia, a captain's commission was conferred upon him, and the command of one of the companies raised for active service given to him. At the commencement of the campaign, which ended in the fall of Ruapekapeka, ho was placed in command of the Volunteers who accompanied that expedition ; and throughout that •arduous and trying service, his coolness and gallantry and the energy with which he carried out the operations entrusted to him, gained for him the marked thanks of his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, of Colonel Despard, C.8., commanding the Forces, and of Captain Graham, C.B , the Senior Natal Officer in Command, and was the theme of general admiration in the camp. Upon the formation of the Armed Police Force, Captain Atkyns was appointed Inspector at Auckland, and held that sp #oiatment until bii decease; and. to bit exertions

solely it to be attributed the state of efficiency and high discipline to which that force has been brought. Hit remains were interred in St. Paul's Burial Ground on the 26th instant, with masonic honours, all the brother niaions in Auckland being present. The Armed Police Force attended the ceremony, and furnishrd the carrying party. The pall was .borne by Major Gray, JBrigade»Major Greenwood, the Colonial Treasurer, the Sheriff, and Drs. Thompson and Bannafyne of the 58th Regiment, supported by four Master Masons. The chief mourners were followed by his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, the Colonial Secretary, the Civil Secretary, the Private Secretaries to his Excellency the Gqvernor-in-Chief and to his Excellency the Lieut.- Governor MajorGeneral Pitt, K.H. ; by Lieut.-Col. Wynyard, C.8., Lieut.-Col. Bolton, R.E., and the Military and Civil Officers of the Garrison, by the Civil Officers of the Government, and by a large concourse of the principal inhabitants of the town and district. Captain Atkyns was married to Susanna Augusta, third daughter of the late Colonel Green, of Kilmanahan Caatle, in the county of Tippeiary, and has left his widow with four young children to lament their loss;