An Old Identity.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 74, 20 February 1883, Page 2

An Old Identity.

Herald.) i /rAi* old New. Zealand colonist of 40 "years ''standing, * Mr W. J. W. Hamilton, of Christcburcb, has lately paid a f.flying visit to? Wanganui and the West Coast. This gentleman so long ago as ljßsofillidvth6 officeoKßesidejit Magis. . trate, and hajd charge of the police of the district.:) Major,- then only plain, Kemp, a fine strapping young man of about 20 yearß of age, was one of the force, as was also a noted old warrior m his. day, Epiba Patapu; better^ known thea as " Taps," Mr Hamilton came dowii from rNew Plymouth m March, 1873, by the new coach roari^.only just finished all but the' bridged '''All along tfte' distance from Oakura, eight miles out of Net? Plymouth, up to some six miles or sp north of Wanganui, .there was,, not a settler's, house to 'be seen,' exeept'ths little cluster of twenty-five or thirty at Patea. In the ten years that have . elapsed, the immense progress that has been made along the whole West Coast ' has qnite astonishVd 'on* fell6w»colonist trpm the South Island, who says he knows . o| no district .. .. jo_. New^ZiaalanS tfia'tfias maile greater strides m the' same short space ot -time. The lack 6! signs of a Sufficient population tcTutilide all ojir enormous^tract of /fine country, has not failed to strike him forcibly! ;. though for all" that children seemed to like rabbits everyTChye. y,- A A ( ? i