LONG LIFE ENDED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 105, 31 March 1930, Page 2

LONG LIFE ENDED.

DEATH OF MRS ELIZABETH RORE. BELIEVED TO BE 107 YEARS. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, March 29. The death is announced of Mrs Elizabeth Rore, who is reputed to be 107 years of age, and the oldest inhabitant of New Zealand. Mrs Rore was the daughter of Captain Blenkinsopp, of the whaling brig Caroline, which frequented Cloudy Bay during the heyday of the whale fish-eries—-from 1821 until 1840. Captain Blenkinsopp married a Maori girl, the daughter of a local chieftain, and purchased from Teßauparaha, the whole Wairau Plain, the price being a spiked cannon, which is still preserved in Blenheim. Te Rauparaha repudiated the bargain and the incident had a direct bearing on the Wairau massacre of 1843, which was the beginning of the wars between the Maori and the palceha. Mrs Rore, despite her great age, retained her faculties until recently when she met with an accident, in which she sustained a broken }eg. Since then she has been in the Wairau Hospital. Mr Alfred Rore, a well-known horse owner and trainer, is her com,