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DEATH OF A PIONEER. (PRBSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.} NEW PLYMOUTH, December 6. The English mail brings information of the death of one of Taranaki's early settlers, Mrs Thos. Smith, of Hobben Urifige, -Yorkshire, at the advanced age of 9? years., She was born in the year of Waterloo, and had lived in the reign of six Sovereigns:—George 111., George IV., William IV., Victoria, Edward VII., and George V. In 1854 she and her husband emigrated to New Zealand, a few years before the Maori war commenced. They made the voyage in the sailing vessel Joseph Fletcher, and it occupied between four and five months. When the trouble arose with the Natives, Mr and Mrs Smith hod barely time to escape with: their lives into New Plymouth from the. outlying district, and their homo Trae destroyed and. looted, and they escaped only through the faithfulness of their servants. Mr Smith died several years ago, and his -widow has since travelled between New Zealand nnd the Old Country a dozen tunes, the last occasion being when she was approaching her 92nd birthday.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14843, 8 December 1913, Page 9
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180OBITUARY. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14843, 8 December 1913, Page 9
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