DEATH OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, SIR DOMINIC DALY.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 191, 11 March 1868, Page 2

DEATH OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, SIR DOMINIC DALY.

Adelaide, February 19. The city was placed in a state of excitement at eleven o'clock this morning, by the announcement that Sir Dominic Daly, our much-respected Governor, was alarmingly ill, and that there were but small hopes of his recovery. The excitement culminated about two o'clock in the afternoon, when it was publicly announced that his Excellency was dead. Sir Dominic Daly has baen in a delicate state of heath for some time past, but at half-past ten this morning he was seized with a fit of vomiting, which was followed by utter prostration. His case was considered critical, and his family was summoned to hi» bed-side. His Excellency retained perfect possession of all his mental faculties, and was free from pain until the very last. February 20. Gloom prevails throughout the colony in consequence of Sir Dominic Daly's death, as he was deservedly popular. Both daily papers have articles eulogising his career as Governor here. The body is to be privately removed to the Roman Catholic Cathedral, at nine o'clock on Saturday. A requiem and high mass and office for the dead will be celebrated at two, The public funeral will take place at the "West-terrace Cemetery. There will be no carriages: all persons will walk. It is to be on such a scale as will express the esteem felt in the colony for the deceased. The public offices and all the banks but the Union Bank are advertised to close.

Lieut-Colonel Hamley issued a Gazette Extraordinary last night, announcing with deep regret the Governor's death. Colonel Hamley was to have been sworn in as Acting-Governor at noon, but he postponed the ceremony till four o'clock, not liking, it is stated, to take upon himself the responsibility until receipt of telegrams from head quarters. Public feeling here is strongly in favor of Colonel Hamley's appointment. Februry 22. No business was done to-day, it being observed as a close holiday, owing to the funeral of Sir D. Daly. The body was removed privately to the Roman Catholic Cathedral, at nine o'clock this morning, only the chief moui-ners and the Ministry being present, and at two the public funeral at West-terrace Cemetery took place. Seventeen minute guns were fired after the body left the Cathedral. The procession was a very large one, and was composed of Volunteers—cavalry, foot, and artillery—all of the 50th Regiment in garrison here, the members of the Legislative Council and Assembly, the judges, the clergy, the civil servants, and some 700 citizens. The coffin was placed on a gun-carriage, drawn by six horses. At the grave seventeen guns were fired, besides the usual volleys of the Volunteers.