Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 103

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The CAVERSHAM was originally a boarding house for some years and a select lot of a sort made it their home. Mr C.A. Gilbert, P.B. Boulton &c. It afterwards passed to James Rule, the veterinary, who kept it for a time and used the stables. The entire “Skelton” well known in those days, stood there. Poor Rule had his tongue cut out for cancer, and died. Then John Tho. Parkinson, an auctioneer, who stuttered in selling “The Ta. The Tu”. “Go go go ing” took it. Poor fellow. He went under. He used to sit on the stockyard rail in the White Hart yard, and fire away, despite his stuttering, selling horses. At that time McC. [here a space has been left but the name is not completed] used to bring down cargoes from Hobart Town, with Bill Edds, his headman. Bill had the grandest seat on a horse in New Zealand.

Rev. J. Buller, Fifties

Rev. C. Bowen, Sixties