A NOTEWORTHY SETTLER.
[BT TELEGBAnt.— OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Chihstch 1-rcit, Monday. Mb. David Dick, an old Canterbury settler, who died at Ashley on Sunday, had been a land valuer for the Government for the past 22 years. He claimed to be a descendant of "Tam-o'-Shanter," of Burns' poem, and he possessed many relics of this ancestor and of the poet. Mr. Dick was a native of Baliantrae, in Ayrshire, and left Scotland for New Zealand by the ship Glenrnark, on her first voyage, arriving j a Lyttelton in January 1366. He settled in the province and farmed at Malvern, where he claimed to be the first to grow wheal in that locality on a wide acreage. He successfully contested the Ashley seat in the general, election of 1893.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12468, 12 January 1904, Page 5
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127A NOTEWORTHY SETTLER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12468, 12 January 1904, Page 5
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