OBITUARY.
AN OLD NEW ZEALANDER.: (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) Sydney, November .l; Mr. Morris Asher is dead, at, the age of 92. " He participated in the Maori War. assisting in the capture of the' chief "Bobulla" (Rauparaha). It is also claimed that, he built tho first brick, house in Wellington. [Mr. Morris Asher, whoso death is recorded above, arrived in Wellington in 1843. The incident referred to doubtless means the capture, at Plimmerton in 1816 of Te Eauparaha, the redoubtable chief of the Ngfttitoa. Lieut, H. F. Mlfillop, E.N., in his "Reminiscences of. Twelve Months in New Zealand,". tells the story of .the- capture in. detail.] . r
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 653, 2 November 1909, Page 5
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106OBITUARY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 653, 2 November 1909, Page 5
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