OBITUARY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 44, 1 March 1895, Page 15

OBITUARY.

" The remains of the late Mr Thomaa Dugdale Curry, for 23 years a member of the Evening Standard sub-editorial ataff (saya the Journalist cf January sj, were on Saturday last interred in the tioman Catholic churchyard at Mortlake. The deceased gentleman had been in failing health for two or three years past, suffering at times from acuta atta kg of heart disease. His friends, however, had of late no special cnu9e for anxiety until last Friday week, when ha was tiiken ill at the office and had to return home. Very serious symptoms Bet in on Chrisimas Day, and on tha 26th he expired wi' bom a struggle while t-eitad ia his chair, iha cause of death being peritonitis and stoppage of the hearts action. The coffin — wmch bore the inscription ' Thomas Dngdale Curry ; died 26 h December, 1894, aged o7 years; B.l. P.'— left the house, 21 Albert Squ.re, Clapham Road, on Sa'urday afternoon, conveyed in an open hearse, and followed by two mourning coaches. Oq arrival at Mortlake it was carried into the church of St. Mary Magdalene, where the office for tht dead was repeated by the Very &cv Canon Wenham. The brief concluding portion of the service was read in the graveyard, which immediately adjoins the church. Mr Huntly Pryse Gordon (brother-in-law) and Mr Louis John Forrest (nephew) were the chief monrner« ; and other friends present were Mr Henry Coulter (Morning I'ost), Mr Thomas Curgill, and, from the staff of the Standard, Mr George A. Hen'z, Mr James Geddes, Mr Edgar Barnes, Mr William Maxwell, Mr William Mudford, and Mr Arthur Wood. A number o£ wreatha wers sent, including one from tha proprietors of the Standard and one from the ataff. Mr Curry, who leaves a widow but no family, commenced hia career as a journalist many years ago on Galignani's Messenger in Paris, and witnessed some of the most stirring scenea during the Biege, being once arrested and placed in a position of the moßt imminent danger. Daring his long connection with the Standard ha had earned the warm esteem and affection of his colleagues, and of a large circle of pressmen generally. None of recent loßsea will be mor? sincerely regretted." The imprisonment alluded to took place on a charge of sympathy with the Germans, unjustly made in the fever of the French defeat, Mr Curry being a graduate of the University of B >nn. His wifj'a nitionahty as an Irish woman obtained for her a hearing, and, after much suffering and anxiety on her part alaJ, led to his release. Mr and Mrs Curry then left Paris, and were engaged for nine days in travelling, by means of open cattle trucks on 'he Continental railways, to London, passing on the way under fire of the guns of Phalsbnrg which was at the ume besieged. Mre|Curry, we may add, is a sister of Mrs John F. Pernn, wife of the editor of the New ZEALAND Tablet. Deceased, who wag of a singularly bright and kindly Datnre and as much beloved in private as esteemed in his public capacity, was a cony rt tottie Catholicfaith. He had been constantly visited during his illness ny the KedempioriPt Fathers, who bad a house in the neighbourhood of bis residence. — Itrquiescat in pace.