ARTHUR ORTON.
♦ Received May 19,6.20 p.m. London, May 18. . Orton, the Tichborne claimant, confesses that at the age of 14 ho was apprenticed to sea, and visited Valparaiso in the brig Ocean, from which bo deserted and visited Santiago and San Francisco, returning to England in 1851. He willed for Hobart in November, 1852, in charge of a number of ponies consigned to a Mr Chapman, of Hobart. He worked for a batcher named Knight, of Hobart, in 1855, and in the same year accepted employment under John Johnson, of Newburu. Park, Gippsland, Victoria. HeA romaiued in the latter situation foW twelve' months, and then was employed by William Foster, of Borsdalc Station. He was for four years manager of Dargo Station,and then was for a long period at Reedy Creek diggings. He also enumerated . several other places whero bo was . employed in VictoriaandNow South • Wales.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5030, 20 May 1895, Page 2
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146ARTHUR ORTON. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5030, 20 May 1895, Page 2
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