ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
A NELSON CHRONOLOGY 18th October, 1842: Our Natives at Massacre Bay are beginning to bounce. They have prevented the coal-working party from proceeding in their operations. If we can make out a case of assault. Thompson is prepared to act, which I think will put an end to it. I am afraid the wheat on the Waimea will riot produce much this year, owing to its being in late and the land not : having a summer’s fallow. —Letter A. Wakefield. 20th October, 1842: Have we not here sufficient level and I fertile land to supply the wants of the j settlers for generations to come? Are i there not in the country all the ele- ; merits of prosperity? Why then conceal the fact that we did expect to find more level land?—in fact that we hoped to set ourselves down in a land flowing with milk and honey, with pigs running about in such numbers as to afford a never-failing resource—potatoc by the bushel for asking—and a species of manna in the delectable and plentiful fern-root. —“Nelson Examiner."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 21 October 1942, Page 4
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182ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 21 October 1942, Page 4
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