Saturday, 8 June 2024

Malcolm Graham, (1835-10/10/1863). "premature death"


Malcom Graham was an active man inn the organisation of early Dunedin, being Clerk to the Town Board and Secretary of the Otago Property Investment Company. He was a passenger on the ill-fated SS Victory when the ship ran aground on Victory Beach in 1861, and gave evidence at the enquiry. 


DEATH.

At his residence, Melville-street, Dunedin, on the 10th instant, Mr Malcolm Graham, solicitor. The funeral will take place on Tuesday, 13th, at 2 o'clock. Friends will please accept this invitation.   -Otago Daily Times, 12/10/1863.


Business Notices

As a Mark of Respect to the late Malcolm Graham, Esq., we, the undersigned, beg to intimate that our offices will be Closed on Tuesday, the 13th instant, at one o'clock p.m. 

Thomas B. Gillies 

George Cook 

George Elliott Barton 

Prendergast, Kenyon and Haddock 

B. CHaggitt J. 

A. J. McGregor 

Edward Francis Ward 

Matt. V. Hodge 

James Smith 

W. Wilfred Wilson 

S. M. South 

James Howorth.  -Otago Daily Times, 13/10/1863.


The remains of Mr Malcolm Graham, whose premature death at the early age of twenty-eight we had occasion to announce a few days back, were yesterday followed to the grave by a large body of citizens, numbering between 200 and 300, in addition to his immediate friends. As a mark of respect to his memory the Government Offices were closed during a portion of the day, and the meeting of the Town Board was postponed until to-day. Although a very young man Mr Graham had been many years in the Province, having arrived here at the age of fourteen. He has left a widow and two children to mourn for him.  -Otago Daily Times, 14/10/1863.


Arthur Street Cemetery, Dunedin.


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