DEATH OF TWO ECCENTRIC SISTERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 129, 8 April 1879, Page 2

DEATH OF TWO ECCENTRIC SISTERS.

_ We found the following singular narrative in the European Mail" In a cave, in the midst of the Ballynioney mountains, near the village of Fceny, almost a generation ago, a family named Gavtin, apparently strangers in the neighborhood, came and scooped out a hovel, and there took up their abode. Time, death, and emigration reduced the numbers of the family, which liad been numerous to tivo girls, who had long since grown to be old women, neither having ever been married. They had no friends, and their only means of support ivas cutting turf in the summer season for the farmers from the country around, and also in the chanty of their neighbours, who sent them provisions. They lived in their lowly dwelling until the younger of them had seen twice forty summers. Both being in delicate health for some time past, they were offered by the relieving officer the advantages of the Union workhouse, But on this point they were inexorable, preferring to live out their existence in their " ain auld hame " lather than change it for the best house in the country; and here they dwelt. On Christinas night one of the sisters died, and the other survived her only a few hours. Their remains have been placed in one grave in the graveyard of Ballymoney Catholic Chapel."