DEATH OF MRS MINTOSH.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4870, 3 July 1901, Page 3

DEATH OF MRS MINTOSH.

As announced in our last issue, Mrs M'lntosh, wife of Mr D. M'lntoab, of Lawrence, died very suddenly in Dunedin at an early hour on Friday morning last. The deceased lady left Lawrence for Dunedin a few days previously to witness the ducal celebrations in Dunedin and was then and subsequently in the best of spirits, especially when it is considered that she had been for some years a victim to acute heart disease and was constantly under medical treatment. During her visit to Dnnedin she had moved abpot freely and enjoyed herself.without reserve in common with the .thousands of country visitors to that oity, while such letters as she had written to her family were in the best of good spirits. On Thursday night she retired to rest as usual but was found dead in her bed on Friday morning,'appearances indicating that she had passed away peacefully and painlessly in her sleep. By her bedside were found some pills which she had been accustomed to take for the alleviation of the pain to which she was frequently subject as a consequence of the heart trouble she suffered from. The first announcement of the sad event received by Mr M'lniosh was a telegram from his son on Friday morning, and proceeding to Dunedin by the afternoon train he had the remains conveyed to Lawrence on the following evening. Mrs M'lntosh, who was a native of Glenorohy, South Australia, was married at Tokomairiro 28 years ago and with her husband had resided in this district during that long period, for some eight or nine yeats at Blue Spur and the remainder of the time at Lawrence, where Bhe enjoyed the respect and esteem of a large circle of friends by whom her death is deeply regretted. Mrs M'lntosh at the time of her death was about 44 years of age. The funeral took place on Monday, the remains being followed to the Lawrence cemetery by a large number of people both from- Lawrence and all the surrounding districts and also by all the advanced pnpila . of the Lawrence Dis-

trict High Sohool, Among the funeral oortege were especially noticeable a large number of the old pioneer settlers and miners of this and the outlying districts many of whom had come a considerable distance to pay a last tribute of respect to the deceased lady and show their sympathy for Mr M'lntosh in the heavy bereavement that has fallen on himself and his family. The religions ceremony at the grave was performed by the Rev. Mr Will.