DEATHS.
Drowned, on the 12th inst, while attempting to ford Island Stream, Augusta Fanny Ernest Gordon, niece of Oscar Davis, aged 18; and Harry, second son of the Rev. Henry Flamank, of Hyde, aged 11 years. The funeral will leave Mr Davis's residence, at 2 p.m., on Monday, the 15th inst. -North Otago Times, 13/12/1879.
THE LATE LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT IN THE KAKANUI.
(FROM OUR HYDE CORRESPONDENT)
The uncertainty of life is indeed a most melancholy reflection, and when we look on our friends in the heyday of youth and vigour, with hearts bounding high with the hope and ambition for a useful career, or anticipating some great joy or success, and then, in the midst of their triumphs, and when their long-looked-for joys are about to be consummated, to be cut ruthlessly away from their friends without a parting word of love or consolation, is perhaps, indeed, the most melancholy phase of the uncertainty of human life that can be well conjured before our minds. This mournful subject is forced upon me by the death by drowning of two well-known (presidents of this district — the one a lad about 14 years of age, the second son of the Rev. Henry Flamank, of Hyde; the other Miss Augusta Gordon, the niece of the same gentleman. Master Henry Flamank had been on a visit to his uncle's, Mr Davis, of Maheno, where lived his oousin, Miss Gordon, who was a pupil teacher at the Maheno School. While proceeding to school on the morning of the 12th, driven by Mr Davis, and in crossing the Kakanui, the machine was swept down the stream and capsized, with the result that the two young people, respectively aged 14 and 19, were drowned. This was an especially sad episode, as the boy had just before written to his mother, full of hope and joy at the prospect of their meeting at the holidays in a week's time, and full of fond anticipations of being once more with his beloved parents. But a few hours elapsed from his entrusting these aspirations to the post where he was summoned to his long home, and, we hope, to a more joyful and happier meeting than even he could anticipate had he been spared to reach his earthly home.
And what were the feelings of his bereaved parents on the receipt of this rude shock? Deeper was the grief and more harrowing than my pen could paint. Who can imagine the wild grief of a fond mother for the loss of her favourite child? With heads bowed with woe and hearts filled with grief, we leave them with the sympathy of everyone who knows them, sincerely offered in this, their dire and greatest necessity. — Requiescat in pace. -Otago Witness, 20/12/1879.
HYDE.
(From our own correspondent) The melancholy accident that happened on the I2th inst., at Maheno, whereby our worthy pastor — Rev Henry Flamank — loses a beloved son and neice, has cast a deep gloom over the numerous friends of the sorrowing parents. The boy — Master Henry Flamank — is deeply regretted by all his former schoolmates and acquaintances, as be was known to be a really good and moral lad, while the other victim — Miss Augusta Gordon — possessed a reputation of rare amiability and goodness. The fondest of parents, however, must submissively bow their heads to such blows, and we cannot but look upon such calamities as Divine interpositons of the Master Hand, which, although the object may be hidden from us, undoubtedly have their end. -Mt Ida Chronicle, 20/12/1879.
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