DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER.
[By Telegraph.] Nelson, Jan, 20. Captain Cross, well known as the Harbor Master of this port, and who, having arrived from England in the ship Whitby in the year 1841, discovered Nelson Harbor, died yesterday morning. He was the first white man who stepped ashore in Nelson, and he was appointed pilot for Nelson and the neighboring coast.by the New Zealand Company, in whose service he left the Old country as Warden-pilot. In 1848 he was appointed pilot at Auckland, and in 1850 pilot, harbor, etc., of Nelson, and from his first arrival was never absent from the colony. He was the last survivor of the expedition men who came out in the Whitby Ho was greatly respected here by all with whom he came in contact.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2754, 20 January 1882, Page 2
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132DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2754, 20 January 1882, Page 2
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