Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 203

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G.C. Tripp, of Mount Peel, and Acland, early arrivals, people who have always held their head well up, and respected. The same with the brothers MacDonald, of Orari, they were all a lot of a fine type of settler. In those days Alfred Cox, was amongst them, the De Moulins and Wally Macpherson managing in his absence. It was a beautiful country in its natural state. What could be more pleasant to the eye than the rich well watered plains? And was not Raukapuke Bush a delight? The bush was simply alive with wild pigeons, parroquets, and tuis, swamp hens &c.

Some of those hard shrewd men were thorns in the hides of the big run holders – William Birdling, their stockman, cut a big slice out of the Rhodes’ leases.

Michael John Burke, an Irish barrister, who had a run over a large block this side of Ellesmere. William Goodwin, a shrewd fellow, picked Greenpark out of Burke’s run, to the latter’s dismay.

William Goodwin Sixties

Willm Archer, fifties. Over Asylum bridge. The old school, just by, was then kept by Mrs Percival mother Sir K.B.