appeared in the press, and among them was an "In Memoriam," by Henry Kendall:—
"At rest! Hard by the margin of that sea
Whose sands are mingled with his noble verse
Now lies the shell which never more shall house
The fine strong spirit of our gifted friend.
Yea! he who flashed upon us suddenly—
A shining soul, with syllables of fire—
Who sang the first great songs these lands can claim
To be their own, the one who did not seem
To know what royal place awaited him
Within the temple of the Beautiful,
Has passed away; and we who knew him sit
Aghast in darkness, dark with that great grief
Whose stature yet we cannot comprehend."
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,
FOUNDER 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-
