Willam du Moulin.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4927, 17 April 1894, Page 3

Willam dv Moulin.

At an early hoar this morning there died at Eangiora Mr William dv Moulin, an early settler, and one who passed through many of the hardships andadveu- ■ tures which fell to the lot of the colonial pioneers. He came to Sydney in the year 1828 with his parents, being then but seven years of age. His father was an army doctor attached to a regiment stationed at Sydney. On reaching manhood, Mr -da Moulin, like many a thousand others, was smitten with the gold fever, and for several years wandered about from one goldfield to another. In 1853 he found hie way to Canterbury, and, becoming acquainted with Mr Alfred Cox, undertook to select land for him in South Canterbury for a station. Starting from Chriatchurch with a bullock dray, after seven weeks of roughing it on the Canterbury Plains, he reached what is now the Geraldine district, where he selected a tract of country and established the Eaukapuku Station. Subsequently he was manager of the Racecourse Htll Station, and the Lochinbar Station. Ie was while here that a memorable grant snow storm occurred, and Mr dv Moulin, with others, was snowed np for three month?. Leaving Lochinbar he became manager of St Helen's Station, Amuri, where he remained until 1871, and then removed with his family to Eangiora, where he lived quietly until his death. The intelligence of his demise will cause a feeling of regret amongst a large number of friends made in the early days, many of whom shared the hardships he underwent. He leaves a wife, daughter and two sons — Messrs C. and W. dv