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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 13, 28 March 1901, Page 15

Captain Jackson Barry, a veteran CoJoni«t of R? ypars. has jnut left the Wellington Hospital where he had been confined for some weeks with a broken leg. Captain Barry, who has hopn over 70 years in the Australasian colonies, has had a varied and interesting career, and as an old whaler went through many hair-breadth escapes in his chase after the monsters of the deep. One of his latest exploits was a prospecting tour in the King Country in search of gold and other minerals, this in itself being a big undertaking for an octogenarian. Captain Barry landed in Auckland in 1837, so that he ought to have a thorough knowledge of the Colony. He has published several books of a historical and autobiographical character, and is now engaged on another volume of a similar nature.