HUNDRED YEARS AGO TO-DAY
\ NELSON CHRONOLOGY 2nd September, 1812: The old brown woman with more wrinkles on her face than tattoo scores on the men's yet all like intricate channels for merriment to run in. with light coloured close-curling hair, exactly like Dan O’Connell's wig. had a most open inquisitive expression. . . . Among these we squatted or stood familiarly. Captain Wakefield with Scotch cap, stick and snuffbox, quiet twinkling eye, and slow smile, nudging the interpreter in his slow easy way. to ask this question or that. The principal object was to get a note to Erino to bring him to a korrero of chiefs on the occasion of giving the presents customary on the Company's taking actual possession of their land. Notes on an excursion to Massacre Bay.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 2 September 1942, Page 4
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128HUNDRED YEARS AGO TO-DAY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 2 September 1942, Page 4
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