OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 170, 11 August 1909, Page 3

OBITUARY.

MB. AXDItEW XURNBULL, S.M, •Mr. A. Tumbull,, S.M. at Hawera,died yesterday morning at the age of 03. Deceased was land registrar at Xelson in 1872, and subsequently entered the Landa Registry Office in Wellington. He was appointed Registrar of the Supreme CoUrt, Nelson, in 1879, was transJerred to Napier in 181)1, and to Haivera in 1004.

Before parsing 011 to the ordinary business in. the .Magistrate's Couit yesterday morning, Mr. H. S. Fitzherheft, S.M., paid it tnuuic to his late esteemed colleague, who had, he stated, been a very valued and honored civil servant of over fofty years' standing, filling, amongst other offices, the positions of District Land. Registrar and Stipendiary Magistrate. Had Mr. Tumbull been spared a little while longer, he would, no doubt, have become entitled to an annuity, that would have enabled him tojfye out "the remainder of. his life" in ease, and leisure. Mr. i'itzherbert left Bure'that the members of the profession would agree with .him. in his description of the late Mr. Tumbull as a gentleman of the utmost courtesy, a magistrate of the highest integrity, and they would join with him in extending to ilre. Turnbull and her. children their deepest sympathy. Jlr. j.. .3. Weston, the senior member of'the Bar present, said he had been requested by his friends to reply to his Worship's remarks. He himself had had tlitr' 'pleasure of Mt. Turnbuli's acquaintance for very many years. In common with many of the gentlemen assembled now at the counsel table, he had had the pleasure of conducting cases before him, and they could (ully endorse his War."flip's remarks as to Mr. Turnbuli's cuifrtt'V *, ability, and integrity at all | time." it wag not for him, of course, to ijuestion the decrees of Providence, but stUl it did seem a pity that the deceased gentleman should have been deprived by Providence of the annuity to which Mr. Fitzherbert had just alluded, The deceased had been relieved of some tioubles common to mankind, anil there was some relief in the knowledge that Mr. Turnbuli's end came painlessly. All the members of the Bar joined in condoling with the widow and - children, and hoped that his Worship would be kind enough to convey to Sirs. Turnbull their expressions of sympathy. This Mr. FitzKerbert promised to do.