1 Tlifie Association leetiDg. '._■-. Mosoibl,Tuesday. Tke Council havo allowed compoti i tors who arrived last night to fire in I the Wellington match, therefore the prize list for-this match will, not be i completed until late in the afternoon. 1 The highest scores so far are Acheson, Riverton, 92; Mitchell, Victoria, 92; Sloan, Victoria, 90; Burns, Duuedin, 89; Mitobell, Port Chalmors, 87; » Bunting, Napier, 87; W, Ballinger, I Wellington, 86; Hutchinson. Dunedin 86; Salek, Ashburton, 80; Prederiok, 3 Dunedin, 85.''The weather is dull s and threatoniug with; cold southerly wind, B. _J L ' Sudden Death oi Monsignor )' Coleman. ' , Dukedis, Wednesday.'; j Monsignor Coleman died suddenly !. at the Bishop's Palace at two o'clooh v this morning. He arrived in town ,; to tako part in tho Council of the g diocese this week. Yesterday he went II to the Exhibition in tlio evening, ami though it was noticed ho was a little ll duller than usual-there was nothing 1 to indicate he was seriously ill, On " his roturn to tho Bishop's residence I it was observed he wan ailing, and on. the advice of Father Lynch he decided to retire to bed. Ho appeared e to be sleeping quietly for some time, k but when visited at 10 o'clock it wai l ' deemed advisable, to send • foi ? Dr Ferguson who found Mon. signor Coleman suffering from II atitofapopluxy, and though'he die ~ everything possible he deemed tht a case hopeless, and Father Walsh e administered the last' Sacraments, i. Deoeased, who was 60 years old, wai 11 a native of County Waterford, and 0 was ordained priest to tho parish al Oloyne, County Cork, where Ik L r spent IS years and thon left foi Dunediu with Bishop Moran,- arriv 0 ing here in 1870, and receiving tin ir appointment of Vicar-General to th( ij Dioceso, fjouie years later he paid a visit to the Home country and ot 0 his return wits given charge of thi !i Oamaru district. In 1882 ho wai 0 appointed Arehdeitcon, and a'fev C months ago wits created by the Popi f Domestic Prelate with the appella ,' tiou of Monsignor. h m _2 11 Phylloxera in Auckland, lt Wellington, Wednesday. 1 Mr W. M. 