DEATH OF MR. JOHN SYMONS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 188, 7 September 1878, Page 2

DEATH OF MR. JOHN SYMONS.

I n i glj By the last San Francisco mail a letter J gwas received from London stating that Mrj| Symons, who left here for Home iu;| || March last, was seriously ill. Last night|| §there came a cablegram saying that he \vas% ij£dcad. No words of ours can convey the if idea of the great gloom that this f| gsad, and, to the public, wholly unexpected ,% gnewa has cast over Nelson. It is difficult to^ & realise the fact that one who was so recently^ |among us, full of life and of that indomitablef which raised him to the high position^ ghe had acquired, has departed for ever.|| such is the case, and we arel| Ibrought face to face with the fact that Jonx'l pSv-Moxs, whose name was familiar as a house- 1| |hold word in Neison, is dead. As a business! igimn his loss will be very severely felt here;'H ||every one who was at all intimate with himp I \vfi\l feel that he has parted with an intelH-l pgent and well informed acquaintance, to know! H whom was a realprivilege, while very ipany will f f Jmourn his loss as that of a kind and warm-!! ||hearted friend. So remarkable a man demands! I* more than apassiug notice of this kind, and oni by which time we shall have beeu|^ Sable to get together the necessary materials, £Jj propose to give a sketch of his life in| I? Nelson. We understand that on the day be-fe gfore he left Nelson he made his will, in which!; gMessrs Cock and P. Donald were appointed % jjexeciitors for New Zealand, and Mr Henry fj gCaldecott for England. For the present the*! will be carried on as usual. ||