A PIONEER.
Mr George Hamplcman of Akaroa, one of New Zealand’s pioneers, died suddenly at the ripe age of 81 —Hampleraau was a native of Hamburg, but reached New Zealand on a whaling cruise in 1835 and was the first white resident on Banks’ Peninsula. Shortly afterwards he purchased 'from the Natives a block of land on the Peninsula fifteen miles square for a small cutter and some blankets. This transaction gave rise to the celebrated Hamplcman land claims the “prosecution of which reduced the poor settler almost to beggary. The deceased had a fund of humor. In his diary, which was regularly written up for many years after his coming to New Zealand, many interesting accounts occur of the incursions of Bloody Jack and the Native quarrels. His life in the hands of a competent biographer would form an interesting page in the early settlement of New Zealand.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2157, 17 February 1880, Page 3
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149A PIONEER. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2157, 17 February 1880, Page 3
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