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 appeared in the press, and among them was an "In Memoriam," by Henry Kendall:—

So sad an- ending to a life of promise has probably never before occurred in the colonies. A man who is in want of nothing, and calmly seeks death merely to ascertain what lies beyond its pale, is as great a mystery as the secret he tries to fathom. Little is known of Gordon's early life, but it is said that his father was a military man, and he was an only son. He failed to pass his examination as a cadet at Woolwich, which caused a quarrel with his father, and led to his emigrating to Australia.

Henry Sewell, OUNDER and proprietor of the Payneham nursery gardens, is a native of Thame, Oxfordshire, where, under the tutorship of his father, he acquired the rudiments of gardening. As a young man he came to South Australia about twenty years since, and having first experienced an introductory "roughing," settled down under Mr. F. T. C. Driffield, of North Adelaide, then a prominent amateur exponent of the art of plant cultivation. As the single-