AN INTERESTING COUPLE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2287, 22 November 1889, Page 2

AN INTERESTING COUPLE

— ♦ In Oimpbelltown (Tasmania), on tbe 12tti Ootaber, a celebration .>? a most unusual kind was held. It wan >. he sixtyfifth anniversary of the marriaga day of Dr Adam Turnball and Mrs Turnbull, who were married m Etitnb&rgh on tho 12ib October, 1824, They left for Taemani i Immedlatsl? »fter the marriage, being then respectively twenty- one and ivtenbytwo years of age. They had to eaooanit-r many of the early dffficaltlosof the ooloay, having settled m tho Midlr.nd District a* Wlnton. There . Dn TurnbnU praotioed the medfoal profo3aioti, having received his diploma oa pbytiolau before leaving Edinburgh. A fow yeais afterwards be and hla family went to Hobart, and hia ability being soon recognised he became private eecretary to the Governor, Colonel Arthur, and enbeoquently adviser and friend to Sir John and Lady Franklin. After tbe la ter leturned to England, Dr Turnball occupied various honorable posts m the Government service, and secured to himßelf the reputation of a truly honorable and conscientious man by voting against the continuation of transportation to the , beautiful inland of Tasmania, bo near tho go.ldfie'ds of Viotoria— a vote which involved the loss cf present inoomo and of the pension due to him for twenty years cf faithful and abloservice to the Government Aiiut a short time he engaged m work for wblch he wao most eminently fitted — that of Minister of tho Presbyterian O:u?ch In Oampbelltovru. A very tastefa! edifice was erected, and m the nelghbo.h' o.l he labored In love mud diligence for twenty sears, aided m all things by hla beloved and rdspeoted hulpmato. Earthly labor Is now ended for them, as they have attained the ages of eighty six and eighty seven, but tney live In their o/rt boma revered and lovod by all who have the privilege of their friondflhip,