OBITUARY.
MR J. S. LEACH.
(Special to the “Guardian.”) GISBORNE, June 10. The death has occurred of Air James Stewart Leach, a well-known identity, aged ninety-six years, of which seventy were spent in New Zealand. Air Leach had an adventurous life. Bora in Alonmoutkshire in 1833, he went to sea at an early age and soon after joined in the search for gold in California. He again went to sea and was wrecked on the Peruvian coast. He joined the navy in 1853 and was on a ship engaged in transporting troops to the Crimea. Later he became a soldier and served at Sebastapol and in India at the time of the Alutiny. He rejoined the navy in 1858 and was assigned to the troopship Tamar, which he left at Russell on Christmas Day, ISSB. Subsequently he went to Poverty Bay, where he served as a shepherd, on the Whangara station for many years.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 201, 11 June 1929, Page 6
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