CENTENARIAN'S DEATH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1680, 1 March 1917, Page 3

CENTENARIAN'S DEATH.

AIRS. P. KING, OF WAICKC. PASSED 101st. BIRTHDAY. COLONIST FOR 77 YEARS. One of the very oldest settlers in New Zealand, avliosc lifetime dated hack to the days before the country became a British possession, has just passed aAvay at Waiuku —Airs Philip King, relief of the lute Air Philip Hansen King, says the Auckland Herald. Airs King was a daughter of Captain Eiskc, tin officer of the East, India. Company’s service, and was born in Tasmania on January 11th, 1817. in the early pari of .1840 she arrived til Hie Bay of Islands in the brig Falcon, which, on its way from Sydney, bad sighted 11.M.5. Herald, bearing Captain Hobson on bis mission to take possession of New Zealand in the mime of the British crown. .V few months later Miss Eiske was married at .Russell to Mr Philip King, still an earlier cohmi.-t. for lie had arrived in 181.4 with his fat her, Air John King, one of the staff of the Rev. (Samuel Marsdcn, of the Church Mission Society. Haring the Heke war of 1845 Air and Airs King had to take refuge in the then infant toAvn of Auckland, and stay there for some 12 months. In 1845 they left the bay and settled in Parnell. Mr King acted as a native interpreter during the Waikato war, and at the (dose of the hostilities he set lied in Waiuku, Avhere Airs King lias lived for the last 53 years, latterly with her son. Mrs King lived in the reigns of six British sovereigns, from George HI. to George V., and she ieaA’es six children living and 40 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren, and several great -great-grandchildren. Several of her descendants are hoav lighting for the Empire in France. The old lady was in full possession of her faculties up to the lime of her Huai illness, and at the celebration of her 101st birthday, in January, she received congratulatory telegrams from till parts of New Zealand and from Australia.