DEATH OE AIRS. TETLEY.

Marlborough Press, Volume IX, Issue 576, 29 January 1868, Page 3

DEATH OE AIRS. TETLEY.

We have to announce the melancholy intelligence that a private telegram has been received containing the news of the death of Mrs Tetley, wife of the Hon. J. D. Tetley of this province. The telegram, hare and meagre in its details, contained no information as to the cause or manner of death ; but it is surmised that the seeds of the disease of which she died were gathered at Panama. It seems but a few days, and, in reality, was but a short time, since the good and gentle lady was amongst us, where she had entwined li9rself into the hearts of those who knew her, and had endeared herself to •others who had had but few opportunities to learn her many noble qualities. The departed lady left the province but a few short months since, accompanied by her'children, for the purpose of going to England, via Panama. News was received that she had escaped the horrors of the earthquake at St. Thomas, and it was hoped that she would reach her destination in safety after successfully passing through such deadly peril. Such appears was not to be the case, and after escaping an imminent danger, she ■succumbed to disease, and now reposes in that sleep which will know no waking until the resurrection. A loss, such as the province has sustained, will not easily be made good, and however much she may be mourned by her immediate friends, there ■are many others who will hold in sorrowful memory the kindly lady who has gone but too soon, leaving behind a remembrance of the manner in which she wore “ The white flower of a blameless life.” It was the intention of Mr Tetley to have shortly followed his wife to England, and after sojourning there for a short time, to have accompanied her back to this province, and to permanently reside in Picton. A mightier hand than man’s has frustrated this design, and many ■hopes and aspirations lie hurried in the grave of her whose loss we mourn. We have searched the Panama and English papers for some account of Mrs Tetley’s death, but find that the mail steamer in which she had faken her passage from the Isthmus had not arrived at Southampton at the time the mail via Panama left England, on the 2nd December.