Mr. Loughlin O'Brien, mentioned at page 100, died in April, 1901.

Mr. George Graham, referred to at page 104 as a former member of the House of Representatives, died in England, about the middle of February, 1901.

In virtue of an Act passed by the Parliament of New Zealand in the session of 1900, municipal elections, under altered conditions, were held throughout the Colony in April, 1901.

At that date the membership of the Auckland City Council—see pages 116–121 of this volume for its previous constitution—became constituted anew as follows: Dr. Legan Campbell, Mayor; and Messrs Alfred Kidd, F. E. Baume, Charles Grey, T. T. Masefield, J. H. Hannan, Peter Dignan, C. J. Parr, James Stichbury, John Court, John Patterson, H. T. Garrett, J. W. Hewson, A. E. Glover, J. T. Julian, and Arthur Rosser, councillors.

Dr. Logan Campbell became Mayor under exceptional circumstances. He was elected as the man most worthy to fill the office during the visit of their Royal Highnesses the

White Terraces, Tarawera.

page 1015 Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, and at the written request of thousands of citizens he agreed to stand for election, on the distinct understanding that he should be at liberty to

Hanna, photo.
Dr. J. L. Campbell.

withdraw into private life after the Royal visit was over, and that the ordinary routine work of the Mayor's office should be supervised by a deputy-mayor. On these conditions he was elected on the 24th of April, 1901, when he received 3517 votes. He was installed on the 8th of May, the day on which his predecessor, Mr. David Goldie, retired after two years and a half of office. Later on Mr. Alfred Kidd was elected to fill the position of deputy-mayor. When the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York reached auckland on the 11th of June, Dr. Logan Campbell, as first citizen and chief magistrate of Auckland, did the honours of the occasion with a fine old-world courtesy worthy of the city and its Royal guests. He further signalised the event by presenting to the people of New Zealand, through the Duke of Cornwall, 230 acres of land, a part of the beautiful estate of One-tree Hill, with a request that it might be known as Cornwall Park. In a memorandum attached to the deeds, which were dated the 10th of June, 1991, Dr. Campbell said: “I sign this deed of gift on the sixty-first anniversary of the year I left the Maori village of Waiomu, on the shores of Hauraki Gulf, and entered the primeval forest to carve with my axe the canoe in which afterwards I made my way to the Island of Motu Korea, my first home in the Waitemata. Since that day it has been my fortune to be at the foundation of the colony of New Zealand, to watch with deepening interest and affection the growth of my adopted country, and to share as well its struggles and its vicissitudes and its now well founded and increasing prosperity. Superintendent of the Province of Auckland in 1855, member of the Ministry formed when a Responsible Government replaced the older system of Provincial administration, to me now, as chief magistrate of Auckland, has fallen the honour of presenting our city's welcome to is Royal Highness the Duke of Cornwall and York. Thus has my whole life been not merely co-extensive, but in closest association with the development of this city and colony. As an abiding memorial of the deep gratitude and warm affection I bear to this, the country of my adoption, I have therefore desired to present Cornwall Park to be a place of public resort for the recreation and enjoyment of the people of New Zealand. The visit of their Royal Highnesses affords, I have thought, a fitting occasion for the presentation of this gift, which I now make with no other desire than that the park may be of real and lasting benefit to the people whose prosperity I have shared, among whom I have lived for sixty-one years.”

Some time after the Royal visit—namely, on the 25th of July—Dr. Campbell resigned office as Mayor. In accepting the resignation and placing upon record the salient circumstances of Dr. Campbell's tenure of office, the City Council very specially referred to the gift of Cornwall Park, and expressed its assurance that “future generations of citizens, in enjoying the benefits to arise from the public use of that great estate, would recall with grateful affection the memory of John Logan Campbell, and would justly appreciate the magnificent gift by the ‘Father of Auckland’ to the people of these islands of New Zealand.” When acknowledging this resolution of the Council, Dr. Campbell said: “I rejoice to think that Cornwall Park is worthy of all you have said; but it is a still greater joy to me that I have been able to fulfil my life ambition. Again and again, amidst the changing fortunes of my later years, there have been times when I have seen hopes long cherished elude my grasp. Yet in the end success has come, and in giving the park to the public, I have lived to receive the crowning happiness of my life. Fortune placed it in my power to obtain One Tree Hill estate at a time when an area so large could be purchased, and yet happier fortune has enabled me to keep the property intact, and finally to devote it to the end for which it was from the first designed. I will venture to hope that the purpose of Cornwall Park will be attained, that it will be found a much-needed retreat from the busy cares of city life; that the surpassing beauty of its scenery will stimulate communion with nature, and that this communion will steadily administer to an increasing love of purity and beauty, and held—as, if properly enjoyed, it most surely will help—to educate in the people a character consonant with the highest civilisation.”

Such are the chief points in the history of the most interesting mayoralty hitherto connected with the city of Auckland. The portrait here given represents Dr. Logan Campbell in his robes of office. Dr. Campbell is referred to at page 40 of this volume as one of the Superintendents of the Province of Auckland, and at other places in other capacities.

In consequence of the retirement of Dr. Logan Campbell, the City Council, at a special meeting held on the 30th of July, elected Councillor Alfred Kidd, the deputy-mayor, to be Mayor of Auckland, in terms of the thirty-fifth clause of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1900. An article on Mr. Kidd appears on page 117 of this volume. Through Mr. Kidd's election as Mayor, one of the councillorships became vacant, and Mr. J. McLeod was elected by the citizens to the position on the 21st of August, 1901.

Mr. Adam Cairns, J. P., referred to at page 133, died on the 17th of November, 1901.

Lieutenant-Colonel Banks, referred to at page 156 as commanding the Auckland Volunteer District, left the colony in January, 1901, in command of the Sixth New Zealand Contingent, despatched for service in South Africa.

Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hutton Davies. In the beginning of September, 1901, Lieutenant-Colonel Davies, C.B., was appointed to the command of the Auckland Volunteer District. Colonel Davies served in South Africa, first as commander of No. 1 company of the First New Zealand Contingent, and then as commander of the second division of the Fourth Contingent, the late Colonel Francis being in command of the first division. While in South Africa Colonel Davies exhibited dash and bravery and administrative talents as an officer, and was made a Companion of the Bath in recognition of his services. He is a surveyor by profession, and was captain of the Hawera Mounted Rifles before he went to South Africa. Colonel Davies again left for South Africa in the beginning of February, 1902, as Brevet-Colonel in command of the Eighth New Zealand Contingent of 1110 men and sixty officers.

Lands Office.

Mr. Gerhard Mueller, referred to at page 180 as Chief Inspector of State

Giant Buttress, White Terrace.

page 1017 Forests, Auckland, has been appointed Assistant Surveyor-General for the colony.

Mr. John Moss and Mrs Moss have ceased to be manager and matron of the Costley Home for the Aged Poor.

Professor Potocki de Montalk, referred to at page 199 as lecturer on Modern Languages at University College, Auckland, died suddenly on the evening of the 6th of September, 1901.

Mr. James Hight, M.A., described at page 201 as Master of Modern Languages at the Auckland Grammar School, resigned early in 1901. Mr. E. S. Atkinson, .A., formerly of the Wanganui Collegiate School staff, was appointed to the position left vacant by Mr. Hight's resignation. Dr. Patrick Marshal, M. Sc., (N.Z. University), and F.G.S. (London), Science Master at the Auckland Grammar School, also resigned early in 1901, having been appointed lecturer in Geology at the University of Otago; and was succeeded by Mr. J. H. Howell, B.A., B.Sc., London. formerly on the staff of the University College, Aberystwith, Wales. The Science Mastership at the Auckland Grammar School was held temporarily, till the arrival from England of Mr. Howell, by Mr. J. S. S. Cooper, M.A., B.Sc., of Canterbury College.

Mr. Graham Bruce, referred to at page 203 as Principal of King's College, Remuera, died on the 27th of October, 1901.

South Sea Island Bananas on Auckland Wharf.

The Rev. Percy Scott Smallfield (page 205) has severed his connection with St. John's College, Tamaki, and now carries on St. John's Collegiate School, at the Pah, Onehunga. The Rev. A. H. Anson, M.A., for many years Vicar of Hawera, in Taranaki, is now Warden of St. John's College, Tamaki.

The Ven. Archdeacon Dudley, noticed at page 215 as vicar of St. Sepulchre's, Auckland, died in April, 1901; and the Rev. Canon Calder, Vicar of All Saints, Ponsonby—see page 217 ante—was, during the same month, appointed as his successor in the archdeaconate.

The Rev. Joseph Bates sometime Vicar of Trinity Church, Devonport, Canon of the Cathedral, Auckland, and an examining chaplain to the Primate, was born near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1845. He arrived with his parents at Auckland in 1849, and was educated privately and at St. John's College, Tamaki. In 1869 he was ordained deacon at Napier by the late Bishop Williams (first Bishop of Waiapu), and appointed to the charge of the Lower Waikato district. Mr. Bates was ordained priest in the succeeding year by Dr. Cowie, Bishop of Auckland, and was appointed to the vicarate of Trinity in 1872. The new church, vicarage and Sunday school at Devonport were all erected during his incumbency. Canon Bates was a member of the Diocesan Standing Committee, a teacher in the Church of England Grammar School, Parnell, and a member of the council of the Auckland Institute and Board of Education. In consequence of ill-health, Canon Bates visited England in 1896, but returned near the end of the same year without material improvement, and died in 1897.

The late Rev. J. Bates.

The Rev. Father Corcoran, referred to at page 227 as curate of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland, was appointed, in February, 1901, to the parish at Puhoi, in succession to the Rev. Father Brodie, who has been stationed at Waihi.

The Rev. Father O'Carroll, whose biography is given on page 227 of this volume—where he is referred to as assistant curate at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland—was appointed to the parish at Kihikihi, in February, 1901, in succession to the Rev. Father Croke, who went in search of health to Barcoldine, Rockhampton, Queensland.

The Rev. A. H. Collins, referred to at page 236, has resigned the pastorate of the Ponsonby Baptist Church. He held the position for nearly nine years.

Mr. Arthur Selby, Huntsman of the Pakuranga Hounds, Auckland. (See page 251).

Mr. A. Selby.

The Auckland Amateur Opera Club was formed about 1884. Professor Carl Schmitt, Messrs P. Dufaur and F. Earl were among its promoters, and Herr Schmitt acted as conductor up to the time of his death. The club has been very successful, and during its career has performed the following operas with considerable credit and ability: The Sorcerer,” “Les Cloches de Corneville,” “Pirates of Penzance,” “Iolanthe,” “Princess Ida,” “H.M.S. Pinafore,” “Madame Favard,” “Mikado,” “Gondoliers,” “Dorothy,” and “The Yeoman of the Guard.” His Excellency Lord Ranfurly is patron, and the officers of the club are: Dr. T. Hope Lewis, president; Mr. A. Towsey, conductor; Mr. A. Tayler, stage manager; Mr. Charles Chambers, secretary; Mr. J. P. Stevenson, treasurer; Messrs George Warren, A. Coutts, A. Bartley, J. F. Montague, A. Twiname, and G. M. Reid, committee.

Dix, Percy Reginald, page 257. Auckland is to have a new theatre, to be called His Majesty's. A site with a frontage page 1018 to Queen Street has been secured, and the building will cost £20,000. It will be on the same lines as the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, and the ground floor will be occupied by the usual orchestral stalls and pit. The first tier will comprise the dress circle, and above that will be the family circle. There will also be six private boxes, three on each side of the proscenium, one above the other. The theatre will seat 1700 people, and it will be provided with the latest patent sliding roof. It is expected that the theatre will be ready at the end of the year 1902. Mr. P. R. Dix has arranged to lease it for ten years.

Mr. Francis Dart Fenton, sometime Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, was descended from a very old and distinguished Yorkshire family, and his father. Mr. Francis Fenton, was a solicitor in London. He received his education at the Sheffield Collegiate School, and was afterwards placed in the office of an uncle at Huddersfield. Mr. Fenton arrived in Auckland about 1850, in company with the late Mr. James Armitage, who was afterwards appointed resident magistrate for Waikato, and was shot by the natives whilst he was passing down the river in a canoe. Mr. Fenton was appointed resident magistrate at Kaipara by Sir George Grey in 1852, and subsequently became Assistant Government Law Officer, before Responsible Government was established. In 1869 he was called to the Legislative Council, but ceased to be a member in 1871. He became Chief Judge of the Native Land Court and Senior Judge of the Compensation Court. During his term of office as Chief Judge of the Native Land Court he was also District Judge for Auckland, and held these appointments until December, 1882, when he retired upon a pension. Judge Fenton, who was considered to be one of the greatest authorities on Maori matters, was the author of a work concerning the Maori race.

Mr. A. E. Hobbs, Surgeon Dentist, whose photograph and article appear on page 288, has removed from Wellesley Street to Ponsonby Road, where he continues his practice in more favourably situated premises.

Alliance Assurance Company, See page 296.

Mr. Bartholomew Kent, Manager for Auckland and Taranaki.

Hanna, photo.
Mr. B. Kent.

The Equitable Life Assurance Society Of The United States. This great society was founded in the State of New York, America, on the 26th of July, 1859, its distinguishing object being to conduct business solely on a mutual plan in the interests of policy-holders, all profits to be the property of the assured and distributed amongst them. At the end of 1860 there were only 268 policies in force, assuring £238,333, and from this modest beginning has grown all the stupendous business, which was sedulously pushed into State after State, and eventually beyond the borders of America into strange lands, over into the United Kingdom, to Paris, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Christiana, Brussels, Amsterdam, amburg, Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna, Budapesth, Milan, Madrid, and Santiago, through Canada, South Africa, and Australasia. Such a record for forty years commands attention, but the actual figures read like a fairy tale of finance. Thus the assurance in force grew from £238,333 in 1860, to £27,963,304 in 1870, and then to £219,670,058 in 1899. Then the assets grew from £24,396 in 1860, to £2,189,755 in 1870, and to £58,373,185 in 1899, and surpluses from nothing in 1860, to £45,783 in 1870, to £1,135,499 in 1880, and to £12,711,975 in 1899. There is that in these statistics which pre-supposes certain special qualifications which recommend themselves to the public, and especially is this evident in a comparison for later years, during which the society has become more widely known. The increase in business in 1899 was in itself startling. For instance, the assurance in force increased by £14,012,322; the assets by £4,546,248; the surplus by £793,123; and the income by £895,038. The mere existence of so considerable a surplus as £12,711,975 makes the guarantees absolutely safe, twelve million sovereigns constituting a mountain of strength, which, with the other inducements, makes the society irresistible. Such a surplus secures safety not only to existing policy-holders, but also to future. Prosperity so great is important in many ways, and particularly to the policy-holder, who is enriched by substantial dividends, the amounts of which are very gratifying; and these dividends, with the demonstrated strength of the institution, make it difficult for anyone to withstand such manifest attractions. Put shortly, the Equitable Life issues such life and endowment policies as guaranteed cash value policies, continuous instalment policies, twenty year gold debentures, premium dividend policies, indemnity policies, endowment bonds, annual dividend policies, annuities of every variety, term policies, children's endowments, joint life policies, instalment policies, etc. A variety like this gives the investor a wide choice, and enables him to choose one form or another, adapted to his individual requirements. There are special inducements in each, and terms are offered that are calculated to impress, and are as liberal in principle as in working out. In addition to the attractive terms, the stability of the society must be taken into account; also, the known fact that death claims are paid immediately after death takes place, when money is frequently of inestimable value; and it should also be borne in mind that the following clause is marked on every contract issued: “This policy shall be indisputable, after two years from its date of issue, for the amount due, providing the premiums are duly paid. Every assistance is rendered by the society to hasten the payment of claims.” It is worth adding that in 1899 nearly 80 per cent. of the death claims were paid within one day after proofs of death were received. The “guaranteed cash-value policy” is largely sought after, and some years ago the society introduced an innovation under which surrender values, both in cash and in paid-up assurances, were guaranteed. This guaranteed cash value policy gives all the benefits and advantages of other forms of policy, and, in addition, guarantees surrender values, both in cash and paid-up assurance, the amounts of which (together with loans mentioned) increase year by year, and are written in the policy.

It is not, however, necessary to give a detailed account of the various policies issued, each having some special characteristic to recommend it. In forty years the society has paid to policy-holders or their representatives £63,000,000 and now holds over £58,000,000 in assets. The business of the society has always been conducted on the highest principles, and it stands for all that is true and just in the assurance world. It has ever been foremost in introducing reforms in the direction of liberalising policy conditions, and its policies, as issued to-day, contain no restrictions as to page 1019 travel, residence, or occupation after issue. The Equitable also observes a decency in competition, refraining from attacking its competitors, and practising an honourable tolerance. The Australian branches were opened in 1884, and business has been done to the extent of £1,000,000 up to the beginning of 1899. In New Zealand the attractions of the society have ensured a big business, and a revival of interest has lately been observed. Much may be expected of the Equitable during the next few years. The head office in the colony is on Lambton Quay, Wellington, Mr. F. H. D. Bell being the chairman of directors, Dr. Albert Martin chief medical officer, Mr. E. Trevor-Gould resident secretary, and Mr. P. M. Thomson inspector of agencies. The local directors have power to issue policies and pay claims. What has here been written is sufficient to give a general idea of this important institution, which, in 1886, reached the position which made it the strongest life assurance company in the world. A mountain of strength, it has adopted the proud motto, “Not for a day, but for all time.” Essentially a local office, it is acclaimed everywhere. Its buildings in Sydney and Melbourne are among the finest specimens of modern architecture in the colonies, and have also proved excellent investments for the society. The Equitable publishes a list of all its investments, and adverting to this fact, the “Bulletin” of the 16th of August, 1899, declared that “as a guarantee of the soundness of the investments, this is a valuable idea; and it would be a very valuable shock to old-imported British prejudices if Australian societies would take the public into their confidence in like manner.”

Mr. Percy M. Thomson, Inspector of Agencies in New Zealand for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States of America, has had an extensive experience of insurance business in the Colonies. he is of American descent, and possesses in a high degree the indomitable energy which is characteristic of American manhood. To this is doubtless due the marked success which he has won, and his rapid progress in commercial prosperity. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he entered the service of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and from the position of office boy perseveringly pursued the hard road to success, till he was called upon as one eminently adapted to fill the responsible position he now occupies. Mr. Thomson was born in Auckland in 1872, and is a son of the late Mr. W. A. Thomson, the pioneer of the Accident Insurance Company in New Zealand, and the first General Manager in New Zealand of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. He was educated at a private school in Sydney—whither he had gone as a child—till the age of ten years, when he returned to Auckland, where his education was continued at the public schools. Mr. Thomson is well known in Auckland as a runner of repute and an all-round athlete. He is vice-president of the Grafton La Crosse Club, which, in 1901, carried off the New Zealand championship, and he also stands well as a cricketer and a footballer.

Accountants, Agents, Etc.

Hughes, Henry (late Hughes, Rayward, and Baldwin), Chartered Patent Agents and Consulting Engineers (Mr E. Brooke-Smith,

Mount Tarawera and the Terraces.

page 1020 manager), 103 Queen Street, Auckland (page 312). Messrs Rayward and Baldwin have left the firm, which is now carried on under its original title.

Artists and Photographers.

Bartlett, William Henery, Art Photographer, Queen Street, Auckland; Branch at New Plymouth. Mr. Bartlett's studio in Queen Street might with safety be taken as an exhibition of all that is best in modern photography, and as a proof of the very remarkable progress which has been made in the art within recent years. The business has been in existence for about forty years, and has been in Mr. Bartlett's possession since 1894, and since then his experience and his special talent as a photographic artist have enable him to introduce many improvements. A collection of Mr. Bartlett's work received a first award and gold medal at the Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition of 1898–1899. The excellence which won this distinction is characteristic of all Mr. Bartlett's work, for his photographs, while being faithful as likenesses, are also works of art in the best sense of that misused term. This is so genuinely the case that Mr. Bartlett's workmanship has made his studio as noted in New Zealand as that of Talma is in Melbourne, and of Falk, in Sydney. Mr. Bartlett uses three stories in connection with his business. The vestibule contains specimens which show his talent for bringing out details in costumes, posing figures, and remaining true to reality while giving the last finishing touches of art to his work. In reproduces everything that is characteristic in the figures and faces of the sitters, even to the expression in [unclear: th]e eye and the passing smile on the face. The success which marks single photographs is seen also in his reproduction of wedding, family, and other groups, generally, for some reason or other, dissociated from artistic effects. But the fact is that, in addition to being an experienced photographer, Mr. Bartlett is also an arest by instinct. Mr. Bartlett makes a specialty of enlargements, of which some very fine specimens are on view. The studio is upstairs, where every provision has been made for the comfort and convenience of visitors. There is a reception room, a ladies dressing room, and there are three lady assistants to attend to clients. In the studio itself special attention has been given to details. Skylights, fitted with different coloured blinds, give the operator complete control over the light, and artistic backgrounds are secured by means of fine paintings, specially imported by Mr. Bartlett for the purpose. The furniture, too, is artistically in harmony with the other decorations. The dark room and the finishing rooms are on the upper floor, where there is a staff of touchers-up, of

Tiki Tapu Bush, after the Eruption.

page 1021 expert craftsmen, and of young women who mount and despatch the photographs after they come from the process-rooms. Mr. Bartlett keeps his large stock in a special apartment, designed with a view to all the materials used in photography being continuously maintained in a condition of first-class order; and, all through, his materials and appliances are of the highest excellence. Mr. Bartlett has sixteen assistants in constant employment throughout the year. Photographs taken at his New Plymouth branch are retouched and printed at Auckland, and all negatives are numbered, so that customers desiring to obtain copies can be sure of getting them. Mr. Bartlett's favourite process of production is in black and white, and the success which he has won places him in the front rank of art photographers.

Leather Trade.

Wood Trade.

Mr. Samuel Bradley, of Mander and Bradley, sawmillers and timber merchants, Auckland. See page 422.

Mr. S. Bradley.

Onehunga.

Panmure.

Clevedon.

Mr. James Edward Wilson. See page 666.

Hanna, photo.
Mr. J. E. Wilson.

Mr. Charles William Stephens. See page 668.

Mr. C. W. Stephens.

Otahuhu.

Raglan.

Mr. William Inglis Conradi, County Clerk, Raglan. See page 718.

Botteley, photo.
Mr. W. I. Conradi.

Thames.

Karangahake.

Waihi.

The Rev. Father Brodie, formerly of Puhoi, is now stationed at Waihi.

“Fencourt,” Miss Gibbons' Residence.
See page763.

Terrace of Sulphur, Whakarewarewa.