News was received by the last English Mail of the death of George Rich, Esq., a New Zealand pioneer, and widely known as one of the most successful breeders of sheep stock in these colonies. -Mr. Rich, sen., left New Zealand in January last, to proceed to England by the overland route, but was taken ill at Alexandria, and died two days before reaching Southampton. He died about the age 07, and few men concentrated within the same number of yea s, the energy and attention in so important a department of colonial life, as that in which it was his pleasure, as well as Ins profit, to engage.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 57, 31 July 1862, Page 1 (Supplement)
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