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he exhibited the most thoughtful concern for those who were in innnediate attendance upon him, as well as for the more intimate of his friends who were absent, he passed away on the morning of Tuesday, the eighteenth of June, 1867, at the age of seventy—two years and two months. “ The fine old English gentleman,” said the Islander, “ the fond father, the wise and prudent counsellor, the useful and honored citizen has been laid in the grave, leaving a memory which will long be cherished and revered in this the land of his adoption.”

At this time the Honorable Edward \Vhelan was the correspondent, in Charlottetown, of the illontrcal Gazette. Though politically opposed to Mr. Ilaviland, he alluded, in a letter to the Gazette,—— which was published on the fifth of July, 1867,—t0 the deceased gentleman in the following touching terms: "' The vacancy in the mayoralty is caused by the demise of the Honorable T. H. Haviland. Ilc was the representative man of the old conservative party. lVith- out brilliant talents, his judgment was of the highest order; he tilled every situation in- the colony to which a colonist could aspire, short of the gubernatorial chair; his manners to friend and opponent were always the essence of dignity, urbanity, and courtesy; and, passing through much of the contention of political life, leaving his impress on our small society, by his many usefiil labors, he was singularly fortu- nate, by his kindly nature, in disarming all opponents of the shadow of rancorous hostility.”

Tun Honorable Edward \Vhelan died at his residence, in Charlottetown on the tenth of December 1807 at the com- 7 3 3 paratively early age of forty-three. Ile i'as born in County Ma '0 Ireland in 1821 and received the rudiments of edu- ) 3 7 7 cation in his native town. At an early age he emigrated to