DEATH OF MR JOHN MORRIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 180, 7 August 1901, Page 3

DEATH OF MR JOHN MORRIS.

Death has been very busy amongst us during the last two days, and the young as well as the old have been called away to “ that land from whoso bourn no traveller returns.’' The death of Mr John Morris, a young Karaka settler, who had just attained his nineteenth year, is particularly sad, in as much as in his case it is another young life cut off by typhoid fever. He was an active and smart lad, and much respected throughout the district in which he resided. A month ago, whilst working at Messrs Kirkpatrick and Marshall’s property at Te Karaka, he contracted the fever, and on July 9th was admitted to the hospital. After a trying illness, which he boro with Christian fortitude, the young man passed away last evening. Deceased was a son of Mr William Morris, of Waihora, and received his education at the Waercnga-a-hika College. Much sympathy will be expressed by residents throughout the district with his parents in their great sorrow. The funeral will leave the hospital to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock for Makaraka cemetery.