THE LATE MR. T. E. TAYLOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 135, 31 July 1911, Page 6

THE LATE MR. T. E. TAYLOR.

MEMORIAL FUND. (Per Press Association ) Ashburton, July 31. A list in aid of the T. E. Taylor fund was opened at the “Guardian” office this morning, and was headed by Mr Hugo Friedlander, who subscribed £SO. ’ Touching reference was made in all | the Methodist Churches of the Doj minion yesterday to the death of Mr |T. E. Tiiylor. At Stratford the Rev. j C. C. Harrison devoted the 'evening i to the life of Mr Taylor, remarking I that ho laid lost a personal friend, j having known, him as a true and I faithful servant of God and man for a 1 number of years. The Rev. B. Mctson also spoke in feeling terms of the kite Mr Taylor. In Mr T. E. Taylor death has claimed at the very climax of his activity and power one of the most striking personalities of our public life. Ho was loss than fifty years old > lie had’ hoeu less than twenty years before the public: bo had never fic-ld high office of any kind. Yet the tragic news of bis sudden illness and death has attracted an intense and widespread sympathy which the loss of few men in Now Zealand would have caused.— Wellington “Post.” The people of New Zealand are the poorer to-day by the death of a man whose courage and ability, wide sympathies and devoted public services have made him a prominent figure in the history of the country. In some suggestive way the manner of his going lias borne a close resemblance to the manner of his living. It has added one more to the dramatic surprises.—the last—that wo had grown to expect from him. Probably there has never been a, better loved or a more severely criticised man in the dominion than Mr T. E. Taylor, and it is a tribute to the rare intellect and the generous heart of the lost leader that even those who were politically and socially opposed to him are now mourning his death almost as they would mourn a personal bereavement or a national calamity.— “Lyttelton Times.” f