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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 12, 29 July 1898, Page 6

Among those who have seen memorial tablets erected to them when their deaths have been prematurely announced, is. the Hon. James Roche, M.P. In the seventies, when engaged in a:i expedition fitted out by the United States Government, against .the Indians, he was reported to be killed. A dead body was discovered, fearfully mutilated, winch was behoved to be the b->dy of Mr. ltoohe. It; was buried, and a memorial stone placed at th j head of the yrave, of which Mr. lluclk has h.td a photograph Uken. Judging b> a story told of Mrs. Ingers.oll, wife of the noted agnostic, Colonel Robert lti^eivoll, it is no more difficult ior a man to be an ordinary hero to his valet than it is fur a husband to be an oratorical hero to his vvite. Mrs. Ingersoll was recently spending an evening with a friend. About eight o'clock, alter smothering several jawns, sue apologised to her fiiend as follows : ' You must excufe me, but you know, dear, th.it I accompanied the colonel on a recent lecture Lour and have in consequence got into the habit of falling asleep at about eight o clock every evening.'