A steakaE interruption' took placo during the progress of a Masonic ball at Balclutha. A local paper reports that " During the evening the corpse of Wm. Henderson was conveyed past the hall, having been brought from Invercargill. The dancing was suspended for half an hour, the band playing tho ' Dead March in Saul.'"
Op Sir George Bowen, tho London Times says:—"There occurs sometimes in the course of a man's life a moment of supreme good fortune and honour which it can scarcely be thought will be exceeded by anything yet to happen, and which it may be too vonturesome to hope will-con-tinue always unabated. Are we, then, to
consider the present possessor of it a happy man or the reverse ? The old standard advice in such cases has alwaj's been to die at once, and so fo put the final seal upon "a felicity which is uncertain I from its v^ry greatness. Sir George • ; Fergusson Bowen is still "so young a man, and ho has, ,we may well hope, so mnny years of honourable usefulness before him, that we will not, in our own interests, counsel him thus effectually to insure himself against the unseen dangers . of the future; b'ufc he is clearly just now one of the class."
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2048, 28 July 1875, Page 2
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