DEATH OF A PIONEER.
'[BY. "TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] D-UNEDIN, This Day. Mr. Dan Wilson, who died at tho Bluff on Friday, aged ninety-two, lived -under six sovereigns. He was born at Halifax in 1818, deserted from a French man-o'-war at Hobart in 1845, and stowed away in a New Zealand whaler. Ho has remained afc the Bluff for the last sixty-five years, following the callings ■of whaling and fishing, so that he was one of New Zealand's earliest pioneers.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 111, 7 November 1910, Page 8
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