TRIBUTE TO DR. LEVINGE.

[BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, 13th October. In a letter to Dr. Levinge, Medical Superintendent of Sunnyside Asylum, who has requested to be retired, Mr. MacGregor, Inspector of Asylums, says: "I feel very much the loss that your removal will mean, both to me personally and to the Department — a loss which I cannot adequately express. Your departure from Sunnyside will sever a link with the past, and when you remember , tho state of that institution when you took charge, and compare it with its present condition, you cannot but look with pride on the record of work well done. The strictness of 'your discipline, which to outsiders may have appeared excessive, was to the department one of tho greatest services that any man could haverendered ;n; n the circumstances. The further fact that is known only fully to myself is that invariably you were, among all of the Superintendents, distinguished by your sleepless vigilanco in looking after the real interests of every membei of your staff. Your administration has always been characteristic of the utmosi solicitude for their welfare, and your de votion to the interests of the asylum as • a whole has been beyond praise. 1?