BIRTHS.
On the 22nd August, at the Medical Hall, Balclutha, the wife of Mr G. W. Hutchins, of a son, which survived but a few hours. -Otago Daily Times, 26/8/1872.
DEATHS.
On the 23rd August, at the Medical Hall, Balclutha, Lizzie, wife of Mr G. W. Hutchins, aged 27 years. -Otago Daily Times, 26/8/1872.
Balclutha.
(From our own correspondent.)
Come in what guise it may, in whatever season of year or life, during sunshine or storm, youth or second childhood, when death knocks at the door, not only the visited tenement is stricken with the awful contemplation that a severance of earthly ties is demanded, but an entire community is made to feel the transitory nature of all human existence. Why that which every day's experience makes so clearly inevitable, should retain such appalling attributes is not matter for discussion in an obituary notice. It seems but a few days since that I sent you the notice of the marriage of Mr G. W. Hutchins to Miss Lizzie Williams, a happy bride then, and on Saturday we deposited her mortal remains in their last resting place. Looking back at the two events, the intervening space of time seems no more than necessary to remove the horses from the wedding equipage to do duty in the funeral hearse. Verily, "let us eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow we die." During a short residence amongst us the deceased had made friends of all who had come within the circle of her acquaintance. Possessed of a happy and genial disposition, and a charitable feeling for those whose necessities called upon her good offices, the promising bud of youth had but realised the expectant flower of womanly usefulness when, as a flower, she was cut down. -Bruce Herald, 28/8/1872.
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