OBITUARY.
(Ter Press Association.] HASTINGS, April 19. The wife of Hapuku, a well-known Native chief, has died; aged eighty. She was a grand-daughter of the notorious chief Tehuki.
There died at Balclutha on Saturday, at the house of her daughter, _Mrs Hugh Bower a very old resident of Otago in the person of Mrs Francis Marshall, in her ninety-third year. Mrs Marshall landed at Port Chalmers from the Philip Laing on Saturday, April 15, 1848, and it will be observed that by a remarkable coincidence she died on Saturday, April 15, exactly fifty-one years (later. The deceased lady was born at Paisley, and came out with her husband and six of their family in the Philip Laing. Her husband was on the survey stall', then employed Captain Cargill, and settled at Halfway Bush, dying there in 1887, where his relict lived until about two years ago.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11870, 20 April 1899, Page 5
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