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Obituary, A PIONEER PASSES. The hand of death last week remov-   ed one who had done more for the   town of Beulah than any other single individual, viz.. Mr. Jas. Ferguson. He was 71 years of age, and the im mediate cause of death was heart   affection. The deceased was one of   the earliest settlers in the Beulah dis-   trict, where he arrived from South   Australia about 26 years ago. For upwards of a score of years he was the controlling factor in Beulah, and it could be reckoned on that every   movement that had James Ferguson   at its head would come to a trium-   phal issue. He was popularly known   in that-town as " The Laird:" Before   ever there was direct local municipal   government, that portion of the Mal lee was part and parcel of the Borung Shire, and Councillor Ferguson was   the representative. When the Kar-     karooc Shire was constituted in 1896,     he was returned as one of the first 12   members; being well up on the poll in     numerous field. There were no rid-     ings in those days. The first meeting   of the council was held on September 23, 1896, at which Mr. H. E. Ackland     was acting secretary. Councillor Fer-     guson was appointed to the chair pro     tem., pending the election of president.     Councillor E. H. Lascelles was the   first president. For 12 year's the de-     ceased was a councillor, and in 1901     occupied the presidential chair. His     municipal duties were carried out with   that thoroughness that characterised     all his public and private work. In   1908 he resigned his seat at the coun-   cil table, and with Mrs. Ferguson took   a trip to England and the land of   their b:rth (Scotland). The news of   his death. was received with feelings of   regret by a very large circle of friends,   as there was no man better known   north of Warracknabeal than the de-     ceased. He leaves a widow and grown-up family., The death occurred at Geelong on   the 13th inst. of Mr. Ralph McClure,   father of Mrs. J. H. Hopkins, of War-     racknabeal. Deceased was 79 years of   age.   The death of an old colonist in the   person of Mrs. Hicks, aged 80, relict of   the late Samuel Hicks, for many years   overseer at Murndal, occurred recently.   Sister Mary Fitzgerald, of the Holy   Angels Society, is dead a 'the age of 54. She was a native of Mullagh, Har row.

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