EARLY TARANAKI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 236, 29 September 1908, Page 2

EARLY TARANAKI.

To the Editor. Sir,—'flu? candour oi' your fair historian's iriend, w-ho is assisting her to pen tho very interesting recollections of the early days of tin; town, is to bo commended. lie is not ashamed to acknowledge .tlnat some of them were hard up and felt the pinch of poverty in fair Devon-. What, a comrasa to (In.actions of some of the second and thi *d generations of {lie old Devonians, who are ashamed of their ancestors being butchers, bakers, and candlestickmnker?, ami how sniU'y some of the iwm\lrs Wnme at the mention of a ■*trel and cleaver. A son of one of our former tradesmen used to eonve to our place for orders, lie forgets ail about that now. and all at once is discovering what aristocratic ancestors he had, u thing his lather never mentioned nor assumed. —I am, &<•., AI'JTKRT SMITH.

To the Editor. Sir,—The danger of trusting to the memory, especially of elderly people, is well exemplified in your notes on the early settlement of Taranaki, as there are three palpable mistakes in the first instalment. New Plymouth is not y.vo miles south <if the Sugar Loaves. The name of the captain of the Harriet barque was Hall. Guard being a passenger; and Ihe man-o'-war that rescued Mrs. (Juard was the Alligator, not tho Albatross.—l am, &c, OLD SETTLKU.