DEATH OF PIONEER SETTLERS
SURVIVOR? OP WAIRAU MAS-
SACRE
Presa A xsoetation. Electric Telegrap1
Copyright.
Nelson, August 13.
Mr John Gibbs, known as '' Soldier Gibbs," having been in the Twelfth Feos, died at Wakefleld to day, aged 99 years and four months. He was a resident of the district sixty years, arriving in 1844. He was with Captain Englind, who was killed in the Wairau Massacre.
The death is also recorded of William Songer, a pioneer, who accompanied Captain Wakefield, and was present at and survived the Wairau Massacre, He was aged 84.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 187, 13 August 1904, Page 2
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93DEATH OF PIONEER SETTLERS Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 187, 13 August 1904, Page 2
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