107 YEARS OLD
BLENHEIM, March 29. The death is announced of Elizabeth Bore, reported to ho 107 years' of age, and the oldest inhabitant-, of New Zealand. She was the’daughter of Captain Blenkinsopp, of the whaling brig Carp line, which frecjueiued Cloudy Bay during the heyday of whale fisheries from 1821 until 1849. Blenkinsopp married a Maori, daughter of a local, chieftain and purchased from Te Raupafalia the whole of the Wairau plains, the price being a spiked cannon, which is still preserved in Blenheim. "• •
Te Bauparaha repudiated the bargain, and the incident had a direct bearing on the Wairau massacre of 1843, which was the 'beginning of the wars between the Maori and pakeha. Mrs Bore, despite her great age, retained her faculties until recently, when she met with an accident, in which she sustained a broken leg. Since then, she has been in Wairua Hospital. Alfred Bore, the wellknown horse owner and trainer, is her
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1930, Page 3
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