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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 24, 1 November 1901, Page 5

Dr John Burns, uncle to Mr Jas. Burns, of the Government Printing Office, is in some respects a remarkable man. He is the oldest practising physician in his Majesty's dominl >ns, being now in his eighty-seventh year. Dr Burns was born in the year (if Waterloo, 1815. When he became a. member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow fifty-five vears ago, there were seventy-two names prior to his own on the faculty roll, bur Dr Burns has outlived them all, and has been Father of the Faculty f>r upwards of two years. He was a sufferer by the Glasgow Bank failure, and pract.cally had to begin life anew at the ag« of 63. A Home paper devotes a column of its space to the narration, of Dr Burns's interesting career. A phenomenon in the shape of a brilliant meteor in broad sunlight was witnessed at Feildiug(according to- the Star) at about 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon. It travelled towards the s*nvLh-eas.t-