DEATH OF DR MACINTYRE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2125, 15 November 1890, Page 2

DEATH OF DR MACINTYRE.

It is with feelings of the deepest rpgret and sorrow that we have to chronicle the death of Dr Maclntyre, which took place yesterday morning at his residence, Timaru. Dr Maclntyre had been ill for over a week with pleurisy, and was attended by Brs Loyegrove and Hogg. On the day before hia death they found his condition so critical that they performed an operation ©n him, but all their best efforts could not save his life. Dr M»cIntyre was boru in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and was between 44 and 45 ye»rs of age. He came to Timaru about 20 years ■>go, where he has continued to practice at his profession ever since. He was, therefore, the oldest medical practitioner in Timaru, and no one ever lived in South Canterbury who was more universally beloved. At the Hospital Board yesterday the Mayor of Timaru, in moying a motion of condolence, said that in losing Dr Maclntyre not only Timaru bnt Australasia had lost one of her best men, a he-o of the first water, who atood he*d and Bhoulders above his fellows. When the Parituka drum was sounded he was first there as honorary surgeon of his corps. When poison and murder threatened an opulent family, he d<d his duty at no little risk of reputation. In tbe case of a poor suffering woman, one of the board's patients, he risked his life, and contraated blood poisoning which perhaps he had never got rid of. Many in this towu, in Canterbury, in New Zealand, had lost in him a valued and esteemed friend. It was with much sorrow that he moved this resolution on losing such a brave and kindly-dsposed gentleman. From what they knew of him they could hope that ha had drawn his draperies about his couch and lain down to pleasant dreams, for if any man deserved to have the oliye branch held out to birrin the hour of tria l , surely that man was Dr Maclntyre. We have only to add to this tlmt a more gentle, a more generous, or a more kindhearted soul never passed awsy from (his earth, and that his death will cause widespread and poigoant sorrow in every house in South Canterbury. Dr Maclntyre was nnrried in June 1889, to Miss Mary Grant Burns, of Mosgial, aud has left behind hiiu a son a few months old. "We shall not look upon his hke again."