An old Idenity.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 161, 13 June 1883, Page 2

An old Idenity.

Mrs Thorpe, w ; iio. died at ' Ipsmch - (Qaeensland); was a r notable of that; L pUca. Her : husband; was a sergeant - and had charge oL a , party of convictsengaged m quarrying limestone for thejG^j^nment_buildjng _.. of- tha JVlnretna iJay penal station —now : Brisbane. I Very early, m Ipswich's : history, Ser--ge^int Thorhe procured jhis discharge, opened a : public -«hou3e .. and store at Ume3tone, and, with tha assistance of his energetic wife, -began to make money. Means of communication between Brisbane and Ipswich—^distance twenty-five, miles- — were few m those days, and the carriage, of goads was very intermittent. There is a tradition „ among the older inhabitants that on, more than one ocaasion the late Mrs Thome trudged •, : the whole distance, \ carrying a, keg of], rum j on ; her head. >■ > One of her daughters, a most amiable < and elegant woman, \ long ja leader ot Queenslaad society, was born uuder a bullock dray on the track betwesn Brisbane aad- Ipswich. — -By-and«bye,~ nob- : — bler3 at a shilling and needles at sixpence led to acquisitions: of [station, pro* perty, town lots, &c u ._and m time a large estate. ; was : accumulated. c : Mr Thome died several , years before his wife. All the daughters married well, rr aud one pf the. sans has baen JPremier of V Qaeonsland. sr. . • : •= .