MICKEY MIGRATES

NZ Truth, Issue 76, 1 December 1906, Page 7

MICKEY MIGRATES

To the Happy Hunting Ground. The King is Bead ! Long Liva the King ! The "Berry Register" tells' of the passing to the llappy Hunting Ground of. -an old, blue-blooded aborig-inal ' identity : — "Kinff Mickey , Johnson, head of the South Coast aboriginal ..tribe between Wollongong and Nowra, passed away at the. v Minnamurra River camp on Tuesday afternoon -last, the cause of death belaaj pneumonia. Mickey, who was 72 years of age, was invested with the insignia of office . at Wollongong show some eleven years ago' by the late Mr. Archibald Campbell (the then Pai'liamentary representative, for Wollongong), sinoe when he has continually worn the crescent-slmped inscHbed brp.ss .pl a t e presented to him on that occasion. I^-ing Mickey knew

and Was : ' : kn,bWn. by ; A alinpst ; everybody throughout ■ithe' 'length- Wd^breadth of tho South, Qoast;,?;. and being of :.a , very gtsn- ■ tiemaqly>riiq;tu.ret-W9,s^ wejt UJcetl. He was ; always^pE^-iiespectful, and; ■piv. meeting a \ady w/o'uid.' i^aj/er' forget ;thef piSual salute due -Ifco^gr ' sp^ v Mickey, -.blaci' > a white heart, "jyas e^j-f respectableV atgd lived a good life I ; 'hi^.iftst words'. Wei-e;- 'Oh, I see Jesljs?..« " , JJe was of a Rapi>y dispor sitioni^n'd hiSliimiling ;face -^lllybe much missed m -this'- district. Fo^-;"his.7udvanc-ed. ago/he „was;.:yery act^ve^7Attd?( could j walk a long distance or'l.cliiMJ};' j.;a tz - ee

t with many of his' younger followers. His I remains wtro Jnterred m North Kiama I £ Cemetery on V>'rdn«>Bday, when the ■ Rev. j \ T. V, Ait<n oCaciuteci ut the- graveside, (s