NINTH PURSE FILLED.
ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY FUND..
Mr W. Ballantyne's gift has been followed by a.cheque for £2O from Mr Edward Washbourne, one of the original Pilgrims who came out with the First Pour Ships. This brings the number of filled purses up to nine.' Oetavius Mathlas, whose purse . Mr Washbourne has filled, was the Archdeacon of Akaroa, and one of the first priests at work in the Canterbury settlement. His house stood where at present are the buildings of the JBiccarton Timber Company. Like all his neighbours round, he "grazed, his""cows iiKHagley Park, which seems to-: have been the only enelosnrethe earlysettlers had. He was one of the chief movers in the appointment of Bishop Harper., He, together with Edward Fitzgerald, the Superintendent of. the province,- and 184 of the leading colonists, memorialised the Archbishop of Canterbury and pointed out to him that the public announcement of the intention of the association to establish a bishopric had been amongst the strongest inducements to the Pilgrims to become purchasers of land and settlers in Canterbury.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 13 August 1932, Page 17
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