Death of an Old Settler.
o In anorher column is announced th death of Mr Robert Russell at the Isl of Wight on the 9th of December lasi The late Mr Robert Russell was one o the pioneer settlers not only of th Wsirarapa, bat also of New Zealand He arrived at Wellington (says th Wairarapa Daily Times) in the shij Theresa in the year 1842, leaving tin aea, which be had adopted as a profes ■ion, to join his eldest brother, M Thomas Purvis Russell, who was thei (fif ty.five years ago) engaged in sbeej farming at Wanga Moana. He remainec in the Lower Valley till the year 1872 when be sold out his interest in th< Wanga Moana property to bis brother the present proprietor, Mr John P Russell, and retired to England, where he has subsequently resided. Many ole settlers in this district will recall Mi Robert Russell, who, for some tbirtj years, did bis duty as a Wairarapa colonist. A new generation perhaps hardly realises the debt the district owes to the pioneers who first settled the lands and made it habitable for the smaller settlers who succeeded them.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 181, 3 February 1897, Page 3
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