THE LATE MR HUGH SINCLAIR.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 43, 25 November 1871, Page 3

THE LATE MR HUGH SINCLAIR.

We have already recorded the sudden death of an old and well-known settler, Mr Hugh Sinclair, of Wainuiomata. Mr Sinclair was in town on business on Friday last, and on proceeding from the Hutt to his own residence on the same night, during the dreadful southeaster that raged at the time with unprecedented violence, must have got off his horse while within a mile of his own house, and, being benumbed with cold and wet, was uuable either to walk or mount again, and had laid down to rest under some scrub, where he probably fell asleep from exhaustion, and perished with cold, as there were no marks on his person indicating a fall from his horse, which was quietly feeding by his side, with the bridle fastened to the hair of the mane. Mr Sinclair’s death will be regretted by a large circle of friends, as he was a very old aud well known settler ; in fact, with one or two exceptions, the oldest in the neighborhood of Wellington, having arrived [here* with J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M., in a small coaster from Sydney in 1839, two months before the arrival of tho Aurora, January 1840 ; and at the time of his death having completed, to within three days, a residence of 32 years of uninterrupted energy and exertion as a settler in the province of Wellington, from which he was only absent during a seven months’ stay in Chatham Islands during that period.