DEATH OF A BRILLIANT YOUNG MAN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 44, 1 March 1895, Page 27

DEATH OF A BRILLIANT YOUNG MAN.

(Thames Advertiser, January 30).

PAPERS to hand by the last Sydney mail announce the death of J bn de Lacy O'Reilly, son of Mr Pjter O'ReiUy, headtnas er of the Superior Public School, Odmi'nvile, and cjugin of the Rev F*tber O'Reilly, of the Thames. The following appears in the local paper on the subject :: — '• Tne deceased, a brilliant young Oataolic native, was for four years one of the most successful members of the teaching staff of Bt Igrnahus' College, Riverview. He fell a victim to typhoid fever in his 28th year. Mi O'Reilly h*d only b«en called to the Bar in October, and on the very day he w .a stricken down by the illness which carried him off be was to have appeared in Oourc with his first brief. Mr O'Reilly had all the qua ities t&at go to make a favourite — a sunny di«poation, a manly bearing, a kindly heart, and a genial temper. Eveiyone who knew him held him in affectionate esteem ; and those wao had opportunities of correctly estimating his high personal ch»acter and great ability looked to him as a man who was destined to make a mark, and a big one, in

the world. la the best sense hi was a 'self-made man,' and h* yowed the position he had reacted entirely to his braina and his industry. During the four years Mr O'lieilly was connected with tit Ignatius' College he enjoyed a ronarkable popularity, both with the Jesuit Fathers and the ooys, ardall were very soiry when ibe hardworking and pood-hearted master left Riverview to s udyfortho Bar. In St Joseph's Church, Newtowi, the Sunday after the funeral, the Very Rev Dean nlattery spoka ir very sympathetic terms of toe aad closing of the bright young life. The Ddao said the deceased w.»s a man of admirable moral charaAer and great intellectual strength and bad he been spared, he woud, io all probability, bave proved a, worthy successor to Bdward Butbr at the Bar. la Our Alma Mater

(the college magazine of St Ignatius', Riverview), which was issued on the day Mr O'Beilly died, the following paragraph appsared :—: — ' Our greatly respected and esteemed master, Mr J. de L O'Reilly donned the barrister's wis: and gown in Ootobar. All his River view friends congratulate him.' " — R.I.P.