Abbreviations used
Date August 18 1870
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Daily Morning News
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Intelligence has just reached us from Hokitjka, New Zealand that on 27th May last, David W. TURNER, brother of J.S. TURNER and J.D. TURNER of (St. John) city was drowned on the Kalapoi Bar near Christ Church, Province of Canterbury, New Zealand. We clip from the Canterbury 'Times' of May 31st the following account of Mr. TURNER's death. The Masonic body of Kalapoi of which Mr. TURNER was a member, charged itself with interment of his remains. (see original)