The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. T. Cornish
Mr. T. Cornish
, sometime proprietor of the Terminus Hotel, was a native
of Cornwall, England, having been born at Launceston in 1834. He came out to the Colonies in 1852, landing at Adelaide, South Australia, had some experience of life on the diggings, and for some time kept a hotel at Hawkesbury, Mount Benger. At the time of the Gabriel's Gully “rush” in the sixties he came to New Zealand, and was afterwards proprietor of several hotels in the city; namely, the old “Royal,” Walker street (till 1882), the London Hotel, corner of Princes and Jetty streets (till 1889), and the “Central,” Princes street (till May, 1897). He then owned the “Terminus” till the time of his death, which took place on the 2nd of December, 1903. His widow and family still carry on the business.
The Late Mr T. Cornish.