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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1081, 29 July 1871, Page 3

The Nelson Colonist, July 21, says : On Wednesday last, whilst the pageantry of death was being enacted for a young; citizen suddenly removed from amongst us, another funeral eeremony was unobtrusively performed for an old Freemason of 60 yeare standing, who, after many years residence in Nelson, has passed away at the ripe old age of eighty winters. Mr John Street enlisted in the 72nd Highland Regiment, called the "Duke of Albany's Own," when only 16 years of age. He went to Ireland in 1809, and served there six years, having become sergeant of his company. Subsequently he served some ten years as sergeant of police in Edinburgh. He arrived in this province in 1855, and during his long residence had obtained the respect of all who knew him, Mr Street will be better remembered as the father of Mrs Ross, of Taranaki, but who then resided in Bridge-street, Melson, An Englishman having asked an Irishman if the roads in Ire-land were good, " Yes," said he, "so fine that I wonder you do not import some of them to England. Stay, let me see-^—there's the road to love, strewed with roses; to matrimony, through nettles; to honor, through the camp ; to prjaon, through the law ; and to the undertaker's, through physic." " Have you any road to preferment ? " asked the Englishman. " Yes, but that is the dirtiest in the kingdom." A lecturer on the '.' moral sentiments," in Philadelphia, remarked that the dearest ship in the world was friendship, whereupon a young man rose from among the audience, and stated that he knew another—a deaier ship still—-and that was courtship. The young man had once been a defendant in a claim for preach of promise of marriage,