MEMORIAL TABLET.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 68, 5 April 1902, Page 2

MEMORIAL TABLET.

; An exceedingly handsome addition to the many mementos to be found in the ; parish church (St. Mary's) his just ' been ersc ed on thi west wall by the ' Misses Jane acd Jes in (Jarring on, in i loving memory of their father, tbe laic i Frederick Alonzo Curington, the , founder of the settlement, who for ho m'iny years held a very promiu-'iit po ;i- ---, ' ion in the district, whi :h ho >ei ved i.i almost every position in t!«> j_itt of his, fellow-settlers. Tbe iisin ihi form of a mural tablet o? v-,ry han 1-S'-'tne Gothic desig'i measuring i 5 by 4 feet. r li • inscription is on a white marble s!a K , below which is a moulded tass of Oamuu stone. At each si do is a polished-columt of red granite, with o>maru s one cirvod bases and capitals, supporting a corr.ice and pedime-'t of carved Oatnaru stone, finishing wr'i carved Gothic fiuials, the whole forming a.i exceedingly handsome .aid appropriate memorial ill keeping with the hton-j walls of tho church, and worthy cf the prominent position held by the late Mr Owington. The inscription, whuh is in plain black letwiin/, is as follows: To the memory of Frederick Alonzo Carrington, who hndod at Mo'uioa 12th February, 1841, and founded the settlement of New Plymouth, and wag for many years superintendent of the Province of Taranalri, and a member o? the Howe of Representatives. Bora 11th October, 1807. Died 15th 'July, 1901. f This tablet w<-s eivcted by bis loviig daughters, Jane and Jessi:. Tha order was placed in the hands of Mr Kroi-k ing, monumental of! t iis town, who has certainly spared no pains in executing a piecs if work highly creditable to the artistic taste md skill of his employees, who are to bo complimented ou the excellent re- ' suits obtained. '