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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 201, 24 August 1881, Page 1

WeWrn (saVtf the ( Jfohgahnt 'btinmolA thit many of* the pKtdre^whiah "have %&& re turned from t^etDiipedid Exhibitidfi ' have been returaed very tniieh damaged -by water; Some of. them are bo mu^bTipjured; that they have been "rendered almost valueless. The folio wine notice appears an the doorway dividing corridor of the Government; Bujldings, . O^aurahga, jn order to keep £he Survey offices free from nativea: please knock; door is shut I agaiosfc native agony." r% .^ '' | The^ "oldest inhabitant '* of Aucki land now surviving is said to be Mr. Thomas Nepd> a^ed^S^- years, who has resided there for upwards of 42 years. I The f old 'gentleman, says the Observer, I recalls the days when Captain Daldy ! kept a small store on the site of the j present Metropolitan Hotel, which stood jon the edge of a creek, and was pnly ; approachable by boat. He remembers j when the firm of Brown held a great : sale of goats 5 cows not having at that i time been introduced ; when pork Was j 2d per lb, and potatoes Is per cwt/form- ! ing the principal article of diet ; when I the only dwellings in Auckland were jraupo huts, and the current rate of i wages from Is 6d to 2s 6d per r fljem. ' When the intelligence of the battieSio'f ' the Nile and Trafalgar reached Doubling Ihe was old enough enough to read the accounts in the public bulletins. Se: I was : we)l aqquairited with, t)an O'Connell, ,and tells many a,m,using stories about the'Liberator, particularly his'en^ counter with the celebrated fish w^man^ j Mrs. ! McCartney,; "~ The . olict, mauvfhas; \ only stirred beybnd tae.preinifles whpEe; Ihe lives on two occasions during the past ten years, and then only to recqrd bis voto at esoiting elections-,