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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4788, 27 July 1876, Page 4

n; BW ; ZEALAND; TIMES AND EVENING (!,; POST BILL BOARDS. ; : Ab' parties are posting' bills bn the above without permission, notice Is hereby given that in future any person doing so will be prosecuted. • T. MoKENZIE, For the New Zealand Times. ■ ’BLUNDELL BEOS., , ~ < i! , For the Evening Post. :

The, sad news of the death of Dr. Fbathebston' was received with' the greatest regret throughout the colony. 'He ■ had been so intimately connected with all that affected the progress and prosperity of the-colony from its earliest days; and in all the positions he had held had so' completely won his way into the ' affections of the people by his honesty :and ability in public life, and his generous and chivalrous nature as a private gentleman,that his death cast a gloom over the whole! community. In province, over which ,he had presided as I Superintendent for a number of years, and in which he had. come more closely into contact with all classes, his death was most severely felt; but regret was not confined 1 to this province, for by reputation he. was equally well known 1 North and South, and colonists generally mourned the loss sustained. A supplement to, this issue contains a portrait of the deceased gentleman, and a sketch- of his history, and also reports the steps which have been taken to perpetuate his memory. . ■

The Franklin electors have assembled in I public meeting, and have drawn up a few simple directions for their_ representatives, which will be found in our telegraphic column. The instructions of their constituents to Messrs. Lusk and Hamlin ' are as comprehensive as those given to the late Mr.. Geegsbury, who went to Parliament pledged to play the devil with : everything' and everybody. .If the instructions-of the Franklin constituency lack l the 1 conciseness of 1 .the above; they at least coyer as much ground. Not only are Me9s^. : Lue,K ahd Hamlin to;