THE LATE MR. TURNBULL.
[m: TELKGBAPH.—PKES3 ASSOCIATION.] Timaru, Thursday. Mαjoe Steward, Mr. A. E. G. Rhodes, and Mr. Hall Jones. M.H.R.'a, the committee appointed by the subscribers, waited on Mrs. Turnbull, widow of the late member for Timaru to-day, and presented her with a handsome engrossed memorial address from the members of both Houses of the late Parliament ia kindly remembrance of Richard Turnbull, the honest, outspoken, fearless, large-hearted and just, during sixteen sessions as a member of the House of Representatives. The total subscriptions amounted to £102 16s. out of which £30 were sent home for a memorial tablet bo be erected at St. Mary's Church, £12 12s spent on the address, and £50 handed to the widow towards defraying the cost of Mr. Turnbull's last illness and interment, and the balance ia accounted tor by the tablet to be erected. The committee was accompanied by Mayor Ross, Archdeacon Harper, and Mr. Geo. Hedges. Major Steward made the presentation, and the Mayor, on behalf of the electors, thanked him and the members of the Houses for the compliment to their late member and his family.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8501, 27 February 1891, Page 5
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186THE LATE MR. TURNBULL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8501, 27 February 1891, Page 5
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