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Southland Times, Issue 571, 28 September 1866, Page 3

Sudden Death of Me Kenstedy op Kibklastd. — A painful feeling of surprise and regret was occasioned here by intelligence that one of the most active of the sheep-farmers who had been attending our great market last week, had suddenly expired on Saturday evening at the railway station at Perth. Mr John Kennedy of Kirkland, after finishing his business here, was on his way home, and had arrived at Perth. He was just Btepping into one of the carriages of the Caledonian mail train, when he sank down on the platform. He was carried into a waiting room and medical assistance procured, | but he expired a few minutes afterwards. I The deceased was a native of the south of ! Scotland, and the " Dumfries Courier," in its notice of the awfully sudden death, adds the following remarks : — " Though past the middle period of life Mr Kennedy was singularly active both in mind and body, and his clear bright eye and quick elastic step were so life-like that the intelligence of his death has been received with the most painful surprise by his numerous friends, by whom his loss is deeply deplored. Pew men were more widely known in Scotland, where he carried on an extensive business, chiefly as a pastoral farmer, for fifty-six years. He was at one time, we believe, the most extensive sheep-farmer in Scotland, renting from 150,000 to 200,000 acres in Dumfriesshire, Lanarkshire, and the Highlands, and paying a rental of from £6000 to £8000 a-year. He was also a considerable landed proprietor in Dumfriesshire, and continued to be the lessee of numerous grazing farms. He was an excellent man of business, and notwith- . standing the eafle upon Mb time aa<£

attention mada by hk wide m& nuM&Ui private affoirs, U& devoted tauoh thoughi to the puMie questions of ttid dav, w which his views wera often original and always intelligent. 11