HAMILTON'S HISTORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18458, 23 July 1923, Page 5

HAMILTON'S HISTORY.

Sir, —I have read.:with. interest the history : Qf the Military Settlement of : Hamilton as outlined in,; the Herald's Waikato Winter Show supplement, and in particu- ; lar tho matter under r: the ' * heading :v.v a " Local Habitation and a Name," as' to the dual claims on behalf iof Captain Hamilton ; of : H.M.S. Esk and Colonel Hamilton of the 12th Regiment ? (East Suffolks) for the honour -of naming 'the new,*, township, with the result > that investigation proved the honour to belong to the hra-ro; and ; popular officer of the British (Captain John Fane Charles .; Hamilton oft H.M.S. ;'Esk). 4 \ In i: further, confirmation:, thereof, - : the newspaper records of the day (which I have before me \ bear : evidence of the facts as stated by my uncle, •' Colonel 1 Moule, :at : : a valedictory farewell dinner given ta. his honour at the Royal Hotel, East Hamilton, upon the occasion of his departure from Waikato ■,■ to take ;> command of ; the 'i Tauranga district. ; ,■; In responding : /t<>; ■ the : toast Colonel Moule stated, inter alia :— > ,' "It is now more than eix years since 1 i cleared - a spot -near the.' Crown Farm at Kirikiriroa upon which,to pitch my tent, .1': had thei,: honour of naming tho ;' settlement 'after. the late:Captain'.Hamilton, l of H.M.S. Esk, who died whilst fighting - for his country and the colon of New Zealand at the Gate Pr». :l: He (Captain Hamilton) "had rejoiced to .-flee from year . to year the rise i of . the ;■ infant settlement ■■' and -. predicted that' in ' the course : ; of a : few\ years the . .Waikato district, ■ in which he .would:: always take ■ a lively f interest, would- b©;; found .second to none in , New Zealand." , *

In the course ? of your hari*ative|of the history j of ; Hamilton, it , is : stated / that ■ where once. * in the Militia days Colonel Moiile had his ; little military, f: office, V a stately place of / worship / is set ;' above.a - thriving town. As Colontl;;;Moule: was so l closely ■■• identified .-with f the'' early".! history i oft Hamilton, I may ; motion' that he j arrived in New•'■._. Zealand in 1862 as \ an [officer in the'lmperiaKArmy, and at once ! received an appointment in " the Waikato Militia, from where he went to Tauranga ■ in charge of - the. A.C.-force. ■ / After serving with distinction, throughout the Maori War, he went vto/ Wellington as- UnderSecretary ' for Defence and Commissioner of Armed .-.Constabulary,4 which office* he .Held/until: 1878. \vhe:iv. in consequence ; \ f:iiiing health-lie/iVeturßqd /to// England.'J. ■where : ho diod at w i* :: he '' ~V ; ."]%l '£ "■ /Thames-Bid ; v.lla{ * rf *«,... •' ix^elj-v.. '6flrrs&, v i >, . J, & v^w^i,/^

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