OUR OLDEST SETTLERS—A COINCIDENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 533, 28 March 1908, Page 2

OUR OLDEST SETTLERS—A COINCIDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STiit. Sir,—ln support of a proposal made mi the Star recently to form am Old ■ Settlers' Association in this district, the following incident may be of interest. A few weeks ago, when walking down Kimbolton road, a gentleman, a local farmer, who was driving, offered me "a lift" in his vehicle, which I gladly accepted. In course of conversation I learned that -he\ had bean a, passenger on board (the Lady Nugent to Wellington, was now aged eighty years, and still a hale and hearty man. When I was walking home on the afternoon of ihe satn« day, I was invited to a seat in a gig in wftidh was a nephew of the captain of the Bengal Merchant. The vessels named were among tho first to arrive in tho colony conveying passengers for Poxieke. The coincidence is interesting.— lam, etc., Geobge Kibton.