DEATH OF MR RICHARD TURNBULL, M.H.R.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XV, Issue 4723, 18 July 1890, Page 1

DEATH OF MR RICHARD TURNBULL, M.H.R.

■' We condense the 1 following froar-an obituary notice of Mr Riohard Tdrnbnll, M.H.E. for Tlmaru appearing in to-day's lasue of the Timara Herald ir- !","''■' "Oar readers will' be grieyedi '. bnt scarcely surprised, to, learn this morning that ,Mr Richard after",a Vlong and patient fight with a painful malady, has at length succumbed to it. Mr Tarnbull has made a place for himself In the memories of the people of Timara of which most of us might well be proud; bat he has occupied that place unostentatiously. In-the earlier rdays ,he was among the foremost in every good work calculated to. improve the material)and the soolal status of the town.' He worked hard for the establishment; of wthe first publie school, and his continued' Interest inimatters educational has been shown in the fact that: an address years past been counted on as part of the breaking-up ceremonies "of '■•'. : the pnblio schbol. The Hospital may' be>ailtf to hare been one of his hobbles, and until incapacitated by his malady he was. acoustomed to conduct services v tbere on Sunday afternoons .with: suoh pfvuthe patients 88 ware, iwllling tttt ntake ipart In thenfc He,oo»ducted..Bimilar. services: at the gaol in the early morning, andl;the<lnmates of both ootid Iti him 'not a religious' bat-a Christian friend, always ready l tb'do any kind oflioeß for them that lay in'his power. The Mechanics' Institute in Ub early days found in him an always ready-helper. Mr Turnbull has; alnoe 1878; and through the test of three or four eleotlbriß,.filled the seat of the representative, of Tlmaru, succeeding Mr Stafford, who resigned In that year. We do not propose to give a aketbh of hia, politloal views or.spolltloal career, but may say >ttiat 'he the '■■" popular "or "working jnan'aroandidate," and the hold he had obtained upon their respect and esteem before he beoame a member of the Hauseof Representatives has never been relaxed. We have frequently differed fronu hlmr;,on. political questions, yet we cheerfully:bear testimony to the earnestrießß.arid'honesty of purpose which characterised the 1 discharge of his duties as -member for nlßXonHtituency. Although Mr Tdrnbnll was not In the front rank of Liberal ipolltlolana, his support of the Liberal party was ho zealous and consistent that he will be greatly miaaed by that side; of the House.