LIFE LONG FRIENDS

Evening Star, Issue 19664, 17 September 1927, Page 22

LIFE LONG FRIENDS

■ UNDIVIDED IN DEATH .BOTH DIE ON THE SAME DAY. “They were beautiful in their lives, and in death they were not divided,’ might well bo wnitoii ot two Melons, friends who died recently on the same day in Sydney. Sixty-live years ago Miehael Bollock and John Solomon, two lonner New Zealand miners, became inseparable friends. In the twilight of their lives, which was spent in Sydney, they tre(picnlly expressed the hope that it one were.taken the other should die also. Their wish was fulfilled. Neither had suffered a severe illness up to two or three weeks ago. 'I him both had to take to their beds within an hour, .suffering from influenza. They both died within an hour of each other at Glebe Loint. The two old males were hurled fade by side, alter a double funeral—united in death, as they had been through life. Mr Pollock was eighty-five years of age and Air Solomon ninety-five. Both were uncles of Mr John Goukston, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons of New South Wales. They were both Freemasons, Air Solomon having been one of the oldest members of the craft in Australia and New Zealand. After their friendship was first formed Air Pollock and Air Solomon went together to New Zealand, to the rush on the West Coast. There they remained close friends for iorty years, living together in the same house at Hokitika. Air Pollock, who married Mr Solomon’s sister, was childless. His wile died years ago. But Air Solomon had four daughters. Two arc at present in London with his widow, one in Wellington, and tho other—Alisa Alahcl Solomon— lives in Sydney. She tended tho two old “ eronies.”