DEATH OF AN OLD DUNGANVILLE RESIDENT.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 April 1901, Page 4

DEATH OF AN OLD DUNGANVILLE RESIDENT.

[OUEOWN CORRESPONDENT.]

During the past three years death has been pretty busy thinning out a number of our old residents, either by accident or natural causes and it is with extrema regret I have to record the passing away of another, in the person of Mrs Mallison, whose soul left this sphere for that bourne fromwheneeno traveller returns, on the morning of Monday the Ist insfc. The deceased who was a very hard working woman, had led an active life and w. s endowed with a robust and vigorous constitution till within a few days of her demise, when after a very short illness she was stricken with paralysis. Medical attendance was procured as soon as possible but without avail, as her case was a hopeless one, and she gradually became weaker till the end came. The funeral was announced to take place on Wednesday the 3rd inst, and at an early hour on that morning almost all the inhabitants of the district came to the township bent on paying their last tribute of respect to the deceased lady. The coflin containing her remains was borne on the shoulders of four men from her residence to the church where it was mot by the Eev G. W. York, who after reading the first portion of the burial service delivered an address commenting on the many sterling virtues possessed be deceased and the exemplary life she had led by striving to give a careful training to her family. Ha dwelt on the suddcaoss of her death illustrating it as an object lesson for his hearers closing the service with an appropriate hymn. The funeral cortege left the church about 2 o’clock arriving at Marsden numbers of people joined the procession, and at different parts of the road friends, coming long distances such as Reefton and up the Midland line, fell in making the procession assume considerable proportions larger (with the exception of two) than any I have seen leave Maori Creek, thus showing how highly esteemed the deceased lady and her family were held. Upon reaching the cometary the concluding portion of the burial service was read by the Rev. Mr York in a solemn and impressive manner. The Rev. Mr Stewart gave utterance to an earnest prayer in behalf of deceased eulogising her many good qualities, and exhorting her family to follow in her footsteps. The scene to a sensitive mind was a painfully distressing one. The whole of the community extend their sincere expressions of sympathy to the bereaved family in their loss.