OBITUARY.
A CENTENARIAN. (Per , Press Assnoi > lion.) Wellington, September IS. Mr. Henry Bui ling, centenarian, died at Waikanao bn Sunday, afternoon, at the residence of his sou. Deceased suffered for about five weeks from bronchitis and a paralytic stroke He was ’said to have reached the unusual ago of 110 years. He had lived under five sovereigns, I.spinning .with Georgs IV. He remembered, incidents of the Battle of Waterloo, and was a married man for the pot thirty voars, when Wellington was founded. Ho is survived by thirteen children. TARANAKI SETTLERS. Now Plymouth, September 18. Two .more deaths of very' early settlors are reported—William Henry G eorge,. aged 73, who arrived in tho ship Oriental in 1811, and Oliver Cook Spurdb, aged 79, who arrived in the ship Timandra in 1812, This makes four deaths of pioneers within a week.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 28, 18 September 1911, Page 6
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140OBITUARY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 28, 18 September 1911, Page 6
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