MR. PATRICK KEEGAN.
Mr KeegaD, an old colonial of 42 years standing, well-known all over the Peninsula, died in Akaroa on Friday last, and was buried on Sunday, ther« being a very large attendance at hie faneral. Hβ was much respected, and besides numerous friends, leavee a widow and eight children to mourn his loss. Mr Patrick Keegan wae born in the year 1822. He enlisted in the Honourable East India Company's eervice in 1840, knded in Bombay on the 11th August in the same year, and served fourteen years in different parte of India, including three years at Aden. He served in the 2nd Bombay Light Infantry in the Mahratta war, 1844----1845. Hβ left Bombay in 1854, and landed in Wellington en 17th March, 1855 ; came from Melbourne to Lyttelton in 1858, aud has lived on the Peninsula from then up to the time of hie death. Hβ went into partners hip with Mr Wilkin, at French Farm, and lived there some years, and frofa tbere he went to Onuku, which he left a few years before his death. He leaves five sons and three daughters.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2150, 11 May 1897, Page 2
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187MR. PATRICK KEEGAN. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2150, 11 May 1897, Page 2
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