DIAMOND WEDDING AT MANUTAHI.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXVIII, 21 June 1912, Page 2

DIAMOND WEDDING AT MANUTAHI.

(From a Correspondent.)

. About 20 old settlers aijd 'relatives met on Tuesday eyeniv^ to celebrate gl6 diamoud VTeuuing o? Mr and Mrs i: . Camt»'"'.dii. After partaking of a din£si\ tastefully laid m Mr Campbell's dining-room, Mr R. B. Hamilton proposed the health of "The Bride and Bridegroom," which was drunk with musical honors.

Mrs and Mr Campbell are both natives of Scotland, and left their native land to seek their fortune in Australia, but during the early gold rushes in New Zealand they left for this country and landed at lnvercargill in 1862. After a few months they left there, and worked their way up the South Island, thence to Wanganui, and finally settling in Manutahi in the year 1870. Mr Campbell was the first white man to own land in Manutahi.

I am pleased to say that though Mr and Mrs Campbell are both past 87 years of age, they enjoy fairly good health, and both took a lively interest in the evening's entertainment.