DEATHS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 34, 25 August 1904, Page 17

DEATHS

WARD.— On the 22-nd August, at Timaru, Dorothy, third daughter of Mi. and Mrs. W. T. Ward, Dunedin , aged 8 years.— R.l .P.

" MORIS ANB.— On the 19th August, at Stuart street, Dunadin, James, the beloved husband of Annie Morkane; aged 5U ydars. Deeply regretted.— R.l. P.

'COUGIILAN.— On the! Ist April, at the Ilosipital, Dunedin, Thomas, the beloved son of Michael Coughlan, Roslyn, and nephew of Mr. J. Coughlan, Dunedin , aged 17 years.— ll. l. P.

PARKER.— On lihe 13th August, at his residence, St. Albans, Chribtchurch, William Parker, father oE W. Parker, wander Lyttelton Gaol. Deeply Regretted.— R.I. P.

MacMAHON.— On June 28, Alexander MacMahon, late Clerk Killaxlydart Union, of Castle Park, Ballinacally, County Clare, after a lingering illness, borne with patient submission to the Divine will and iortiiied by the rites of Holy Church, in his 71th year.— R.l P.

Oonnewirricoo, Durdiwarrah, Hmnomunjie, Karramomus, Kinimakatka, Kinneypaniel, Koorocheang, Korweingiiboora, Panoobamawm, Pannoomilloo, Puckapunyal, Tallagaroopna, Tarrayoukyan, Terrappee, Weeproinah, Wulgtilmerang, Dcllickn'ora. Just fancy a post office being named Upotipotpon !'

Mark Twain made a collection of Australian townnames and wrought the least refractory of them into a hot-day poem which was 'to be read soft and low, •with the lights turned down.' Here is a specimen verse :~ ' And Murriwillumba complainelh in sung For the garlanded bowers of Wooloomoloo, And the Ballarat Fly and the lore WoMongong They dream of the gardens of Jamberoo.'

The best word on his list—' the most m'usieal a,nd gurgly '—was the eight o'd Wooloomooloo. Somewhere in the Fairlie district (Canterbury) thetie is a Maori place-name that stretches out in a precession of letters as long as a litany of Australian names. We have nc space for it in this issue. i