CHANGED CIRCUMSTANCES.

Evening Star, Issue 3324, 15 October 1873, Page 3

CHANGED CIRCUMSTANCES.

[From the Melbourne Daily TeleyraphA Here ia another instance to show the uncertainty of man’s position. The Record gives particulars of the death of Captain John Anthony Layard, brother of the Hon, H. W. Layard, M.P., of Nineveh celebrity (now British Ambassador at Madrid), and nephew of the Marquis Huntley, The deceased gentleman was a captain in the British army, and held at one time a very high appointment in India. Some twenty years ago he came to this Colony, and was captain of a corps of Volunteer Cavalry at Geelong. Shortly afterwards he became a partner in the firm of Robertson, Wagner, and Co., manufacturers of a certain manure for the coffee-fields of Ceylon, between which place and this Colony he was frequently trading. When the manure manufacturing was discontinued, he introduced a patent medicine under the name of the Assyrian Panacea, with indifferent success. The deceased gradually became so straitened in circumstances that when his health failed him he had to become an indoor paitient of the Alfred Hospital, in which institution he died on boptember 8, and was buried ou the 10th. He leaves a wife and two children totally destitute ; so much so, indeed, that the cost of the funeral of the deceased bad to be defrayed by contributions.