Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 189

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Jimmy Swinbourne, in the early days, kept a store in the Market place. He then went to Wellington and kept Hotel, built a wharf &c. Went under. Came back and took to his old trade, shoemaking, at Leeston. Once got into a bobbery[?] for some family disagreement when he administered chastisement to the wife with a novel sort of tool, a “puppy dog!”

Mr Henry Harold de Bourbel, an early arrival, was in partnership with Josiah Birch, in a flour mill near Rangiora. Then was a financier in Christchurch.

The Mary Thompson a little schooner the present Henry Thompson, master.

David Lewis, father of Charles, had a butchery by Cookham house, and was a big portly man.

The R.M. Court was then in the Old Council Chambers, and Mr C.C. Bowen, R.M.

Warner, sixties