DEATH OF CAPTAIN CROSS, OF NELSON.
..... (tJJJIJf P PWBS ASSOCIATION.) . NsMOtf, Jan; 10'. Captain OroisJ well"known as' thenarof this port, and who, having arrived from England in tbo ship Whitby, in;theyearißil| ; |!>cbvered Nelson har-, ,bor, died this morning,. He was the first white.'maffgfho stepped ashore in Nelson,.and was appointed pilot for Nelson and'the neighboring ooast by the New Zp&M Company, in whose service be left the Old Country as Warden Pilot, In 1848 lie was appointed pilot at Auckland, and in 1860 harbormaster, pilot, &t. , of Nelson, and, from his, first arrival,, was, never absent; Iwm the' 'colony. 'He' was thfllast 6urviv6r,of. the expedition men' who eanie put fn rfje WhiJby,. i: He was greatly respited J>Me an| hy.ap'njarlners with whom he came in eontaot,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 979, 20 January 1882, Page 2
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125DEATH OF CAPTAIN CROSS, OF NELSON. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 979, 20 January 1882, Page 2
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