DEATH OF SIR DOMINIC DALY.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 107, 14 March 1868, Page 5

DEATH OF SIR DOMINIC DALY.

We regret to have to report the death of his Excellency Sir Dominic Daly, Governor of South Australia, which occurred yesterday, at Government House, Adelaide, somewhat suddenly. He had for some time been in ailing health, and it will be fefnemhered, was prevented by illness from taking part in some of the celebrations in honor of the Prince’s visit to Adelaide. No intelligence, however, had been received for some time regarding his health, and it was believed that he had sufficiently recovered to attend to his ordinary duties. Yesterday afternoon a brief telegram was received in Melbourne stating that his Excellency died at two o’clock, having been ill all the morning, We are not at present in a position to give any particulars respecting the nature. • of his illness. no • Sir Dominic Daly was the son of Mr. • Dominic Daly, a gentleman of property id the county of Galway, and nephew; of the 1.1 first Lord Wall scour t. He -was-bom--in--1798, and, consequently, was seventy years of age at the time of his death. He married at the age of twenty-eight, and shortly •) afterwards entered upon official life in the Colonial administration. In 1829 he -was

appointed to the office of secretary to the province of Lower Canada, which he retained for eleven years. He then became secretary to the United Provinces of Canada, and filled that office from 1840 to 1848. During the period of his holding these positions in Canada he was employed by the local Legislature on several important missions, and the manner in which his official life was regarded by the Home Government was such as in 1852 to procure him the appointment of the Island of Tobago, whence in 1856 he was transferred to the more important station of Lieut.-Governor of Prince Edward’s Island. The honor of knighthood was conferred upon him at the same time. He was appointed Governor of South Australia in 1861, and came out from England in the Suffolk, accompanied by Lady Daly and his family. He arrived at Melbourne on February 19th, 1862, and reached Adelaide March the sth, just prior to the departure of his predecessor, Sir Diehard Graves Mac Donnell. He has since that time administered the government of the province in a manner which has gained for him the respect of all classes of the community, while the private and social life of the Governor and his Lady was such as to render them very popular in Adelaide.