Ernest Timaru RHODES of Levels [31613]

  General Notes:

Nelson Evening Mail, 11 January 1894, Page 2
Death from Blood Poisoning.
Timaru, This Day, Mr E T. Rhodes, fourth son of Mr George Rhodes, a pioneer settler of South Canterbury, died this morning from blood poisoning. He caught cold while acting as a judge at the Caledonian sports. He was a popular young man, and his untimely death is much deplored.

New Zealand Tablet, 26 January 1894, Page 19
I must now refer to an event which has cast a gloom over every one in the district, Catholic and Protestant alike that is the death of the late Mr Ernest Timaru Rhodes. This young gentleman met his untimely end through the effects of cold caught while acting as judge at the Caledonian Sports on the second day of the New Year. The deceased gentleman, though from position and wealth belonging to the upper strata of our community, was essentially a man of the people. Popular, young, wealthy and generous, he was admired, respected and sought after by all classes of the community An item which bespeaks his liberality is that when John Dillon arrived and visited Timaru on behalf of the evicted tenants, Sir Rhodes was in Dunedin and was approached by Mr Mahoney about the visitor's reception, with the result that when the Irish delegates arrived Mr E. Rhodes's carriage and four greys were at the station to receive Mr Dillon and convey him to the hotel. His cheque was also there. The funeral, which was the largest ever seen in Timaru, and was representative of all classes in the community, took fifteen minutes to pass a given point, and on arrival at the cemetery about half those attendant were unable to get near, The ladies of the Sacred Heart Convent sent a handsome wreath, a cross of pure white flowers with a mourning circle of purple pansies around the angle of crossing.

Timaru Herald, 15 January 1894, Page 3
FUNERAL OF E. T. RHODES.
Seldom in the history of Timaru has co widespread interest been shown m the last rites of a deceased person, as was shown on Saturday in the funeral of the late E. T. Rhodes. He was so well known, was so generally popular, and was connected with

Ernest married Mildred Julia HACKWORTH [31614] [MRIN: 11219] on 11 Jan 1886 in All Saints Dunedin NZ. (Mildred Julia HACKWORTH [31614] was born in 1865, died on 31 Oct 1939 and was buried in Timaru Cemetery.)