SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
(Fnoa Our Own GoanuspoNDENT.) : Wellington, July 29. THE SANITARY CONDITION OF i WELLINGTON. I Typhoid is becoming alarmingly prevalent here, and letters and leading articles are beginning to appear in the papers about it. There are said to be 30 casp.3 in Thorndon alone. Captain Saville, A.D.C. to the Governor, is suffering from the complaint, and is so ill that doubts are expressed whether he will survive the night. Mr Fergus, Minister for Justice, is unwell to-night, but the nature of his illness is Hot stated.
THE FUNERAL OF MR JUSTICE GILLIES.
(Fbom Oub Own Couuespondent.) Auckland, July 29. The funeral of the late Justice Gillies took place to-day, and was the largest for years past. It was remarkably representative, most of the public bodies being represented, while nearly every member of the legal profession was pre sent. The clergy of the various denominations mustered, from Bishop Cowio downwards, the Roman Catholic clergy being represented by Monsignor Maodonald. The Government was to have been represented-by the Hon. Colonel Haultain, but he being absent in Waikato, a carriage did duty instead. The inter ment took place at the English Cemetery of St. Andrew's, Epsom, deceased being buried along side his late wife. Hard by in the little church yard are resting the ashes of a number of public men whom Judge Gillies for half his life time had known in the work of commerce or politics. By a strange coincidence one of the mourners was Captain Macandrew, of the ship Slams Castle, who had brought Mr Gillies out as a passenger to Dunedin in 1852. The chief mourners were Messrs Farquhar Macrae (solici tor), G. Gillies, A. Sinclair, G. Sinclair, Rev. Bruce, and Dr Honeyman.
THE PROPERTY TAX.
