POUR PRENDRE CONGE

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1595, 12 November 1912, Page 7

POUR PRENDRE CONGE

v. The'.Rev. ' ; Dr.-.'..Eoseby. ; .':writes to, the ■ '.'Otago"-Daily-.Times'/:.;as';follows:-.;:.'.-/ , as. tear; ' : 'ihg, Diihedin, to! e-ipA-ss ; of the-hospitable welcome : which; I'havo. - ■received', at thS-hands, of .'my .-erstwhile. ■fellow:citizehs. here.yand my. best wishes . foiv'the:future of Iwlint'-Dr. btuartused. to as .this ,"roni'nntio'-eitj: .•■•" ,' ': • In- regard to my son's lamented'death, . which has especially evoked ,'a widespread .'expression of sympathy, vL can only- say, ■of .him that he was born here, that his ; record' all through his life was ■uniform■ly ■ good,- his "days -'joined- each, to' each in'natural piety," and that, his manhood was of ah'exceptionally, noble-,type:; He was a scholar/ well read-in philosophy, in historv, and. in classical literature. .But we'dsk to call him "the Tolstoi of the family." Notwithstanding'generous offers made hiui by his elder brothers-all -in Queensland-he chose-by preference -to live th'e life of a plain working roan. This'will account for his being a steerage passenger; 'And it will, account for his interference, if so be, always in the interests of mercy ; and .virtue' I _am. tin any : disturbanc.o-in the. part ottlio vessel whero -he .was;- .. .'• . I'must be allowed to rest in:some theory of his,sad death that is-.consistent with his 1 character, ■■; and';record, as intimately known to-me during his whole life, and up'tb: date, 1 -for:'he-was with us on a welcome visit to the old Sydney,home.for the -first, three months of, the. present year'!—l am., etc.. .: r , ■.-;.■.' ' ,''-.' THOMAS,ROSEBY, J,L.D. . Dunedin, November'-4,.' ; .r.'-f:;-,.;