Abbreviations used
Date January 28 1870
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
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.
Rev. Dr. STEEL of Sydney, Australia writes under date No. 6th, 1869 to Rev. P.G. McGREGOR of Halifax, N.S. announcing the death of Rev. Donald MORRISON one of the Missionaries of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces at Onehunga, near Aukland, New Zealand on 23rd Oct. 1869. Mr. MORRISON, we believe, was a native of Scotland, but reared from childhood from Island of Cape Breton. He was educated in Free Church College, Halifax. He married Miss Christina ROSS, native of Earltown, N.S. (see original)