The community was shocked Thursday eve. when the announcement was made that Hon. Benjamin R. STEVENSON, Judge of Probate, had passed away. On Thursday, a few minutes after 5 o'clock he died. The deceased was in his 55th year, having been born in St. Andrews (Charlotte Co.) April 10, 1835. The grammar school here supplied him with his early education. In 1854 he graduated from the University of New Brunswick with the degree of B.A. Six years later he was called to the bar of the Province. In 1867, Mr. Stevenson resigned his position of registrar of probate and accepted the nomination for the seat in the Local Legislature to which he was elected. He was returned in 1870 and in 1874 he was appointed a member of the executive council until 1879, when he resigned and accepted the Speakership. In 1883 he retired from public life. The deceased was married in 1866 to a daughter of late Wm BOLTON, who with a son and daughter, survives him. He was president of the Charlotte Co. Agricultural Society, trustee of schools and had occupied the position of Grand Master with the Masonic body. He was a warden of the All Saints Church, St. Andrews, and one of the largest stockholders in the St. John and Maine Railway. The interment took place Saturday afternoon under the auspices of St. Mark's Lodge, F.& A.M. (see original)