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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1910, Page 4

Mr ft. Relf, a very old nnd well known res/id ent of Palnierslton North entertained. a few friends and several members of his family a.t afternoon tea at his residence, Taonni f,;'' e qo'- wek, the occasion "being h,js 93rd bintluky (states the Mana u 11,I 1 , Standard). As £Vfr R e lf is unable to attend church services rVI 1 - 8 fi 'V s ?" e ' a Private celebration of the Holy Commnn ! ion was conducted by the Rev. T. T. Thtonns nlf " as oll fx- o '' tlle e»ests. Mr Relf is one of Nciv Zealand's enrlies't settlers having arrived in Wellington joth ,Ims family ?>y the Gleaner ' , " as a, ' so gained tlie rather unusual distinction of bavin* ived 1; n six- reigns. Having been fe l" ? tWO years aftor Watetloo, 'he has been the subject fv Br w , ,v -

. Bishop Gibney, who lias just re . | signed' his episcopal office, after living led Roman Catholicism in' West Australia for twenty-five yoairs, will be host remembered 1 in Australia, as C - I> f , ' isl , l priesfc of Glenrow- " lotoiim), who, when Nod Kelly «'n.s captured, went fearlessly up to I 1 tinrn wh'ch the other ou,taws had kept up an incessant fusillade, in order to warn any innocent ™T n ** ' b, 'e place had feS? st*. file in the .rear. It was in the early dawji and Father Gibney S a gieat risk of being mistaken for a poili com all and shot. As it ban Dan Kelly, Steve Ha.i'fc and Joe Byrnes bad by this time been themselves shot, whether by the police bullets or their own will never be knmrn, and Father Gibney entered the bmlding just in time to administer extreme miction.