DR DAVID BRUCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10512, 29 December 1911, Page 4

DR DAVID BRUCE.

! "Morcutio" contributes to the "New , Zealand Herald" an interesting rej minisoeaice cf the late Retv. Dr Da,viid Binice, whose death m Sydney w,a& recorded recently. A genetiiation ago Dr Bruce was one of the best known, of Auckland's oitizdna, and : a pillar of the Presbyterian Clhiurdh. ' "Mea-fciutio" -and Dt Brace first met i in a remote Highland vi'lHUge, whe«n tihe former wa» a schoolboy, and the latter, owing to his exertions m helping to extinguish a fire in tihe viMage, contracted' rheavmatfic fever, and luid to stay there for three months. The<y nexit met in the editoriail rooms of the "HeralM," where tlhey were colleagues for a long time. It is recalled' til tat "at the timie ctf tlfce Taraw era eruption, Pr Biruoe> was almost the ontly one in Auckland who correctly guessed the meaning ..of .the strange noufsea and vivid flashes which- were heard and sseeai in tihe cnity on that memorable morning in «£unie. He had gone up into the tower of the old office otf tihe "Hieraid," and on coming down gave it as. htos Opinioin tfliajt a vcilcainfip; ei'.uptioii' was. in progress,prttbalbly - '- at-Ngaiuru-* too. ; •; -■ '' : -