A LIVE MAN'S OBITUARY NOTICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1590, 22 July 1916, Page 3

A LIVE MAN'S OBITUARY NOTICE.

WELLINGTON LOST FOOLS THE “GRIM MESSENGER.”

In Tuesday’s issue we published :i personal paragraph in respect fo our esteemed uml very much olive old friend, Mr J. Costall. Last night’s Wellington Post h:is converted our remarks —which, heaven alone knows, were far from lugubrious—into an obituary notice. Mr Costal! will have the remarkable experience of reading Ins own obituary notice from the personal columns of our esteemed and otherwise exceptionally well-informed contemporary. We can imagine the old gentleman’s juvenile delight when he reads the error, in view of the fact that he has the “grim reaper” well at arms’ length. Here is the Post’s obituary:—“Mr J. Costall, wellknown in the administration of affairs on the executive of the Presbyterian Church at Paxton, is dead, aged 84. Mr Costal! was one of New Zealand’s early Civil servants. In 1805 ho joined the Government Printing Oltiee staff, and was superintending overseer until 1892, when he retired from the service. Deceased was very popular among his associates on account of his genial disposition. Mr Costall had for a considerable time lived at Boston Parra, in the Manawatu district.”