NAPIER.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2497, 6 January 1877, Page 2

NAPIER.

This day. Sir Donald McLean had been fbr some few days before his death so ill that recovery was considered out of the question, but } by. request of his family the local journals abstained from saying anything about it, as he was in the habit of looking at the newspapers, and if he saw in them anything about his illness it was a source of vexation to him. On Sunday his life was quite despaired of. He rallied considerably, and to a very early hour yesterday it was thought possible the acute attack of his disease might pass over for a time, but about five in the morning the attack, took a sudden turn for the worse, and at nine another tura which rendered all hopeful anticipations vain. From that time to ten minutes to four in the afternoon, when he died, he was almost unconscious. Now and then he muttered some words in Gaelic, of a tenor showing that his mind was occupied with

thoughts suitable to the imminence of his entrance into a future state. He could recognise faces, but his brain could scarcely be said to be at work. His death has created a profound sensation here among all classes. The funeral takes place tomorrow at three. Both Masonic Lodges will meet at two, and then proceed in procession to the funeral. The Victoria Lodge will take precedence, because of Sir Donald having been Grand Master of the English Constitution. Masous regret that the regalia lately arrived from England is in Wellington. The Artillery Corps will attend,. and the funeral will have something of a military character.