DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER
. « Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright New Plymouth, December 12 A Budden death occurred this afternoon of an old resident, Mi William Cottier, aged 65. He had visited two married daughters in the morning and dozed in the afternoon. About 4.80, when stooping, he fell to the ground and never regained consciousness, death being apparently due to apoplexy and a weak heart. Deceased was born in the Isle of Man, leaving there about 1857 and proceeding to Australia to join in the search for gold. Ho came to this Colony in the early sixties, and arrived in New Plymouth in 1863 as a military settler during the Maori war, after which he became a hotelkeeper, eventually owning the Criterion Hotel.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 119, 15 December 1905, Page 4
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