Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 251

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iniquities committed for a long series of years in the Common gaol as afterwards revealed by the acumen of Captain Hume, the prison Inspector.

Old Peter Cameron, well known to all the old identities of Port Cooper, was also a North Island man, an old soldier, and turned his attention to the public line for many years keeping the old Robin Hood. Peter was somewhat of an oddity, and although not himself always successful, left some energetic sons behind him. Then there was Dick Taylor, afterwards of the Papanui road brewery, the unequalled maker of Kerlonial. Dick was a good looking, well set man and an adept at chaff, and ever ready to oblige with his fists. The legends tell how he fought the big bully of a black man, on the road contract in Wellington, and beat him to a stand still. Affairs did not flourish with Dick years after and he left for home. And who does not remember big Rowland Davis, the gushing, pleasant, plausible boniface of the old Canterbury, dear to the rushers up from the little strip of wharf, all now made land and covered with rails, to have their landing shout? Poor old Genet, too, some will think of, and

Peter Cameron, at that time a full sixty or more, was a grim, humorous, shrewd old Scotty, who made people welcome and was always ready for a yarn.

Richard Taylor, was a Londoner, about 5 8-9 in height, strong, square built, big head and neck, with a humorous sarcastic tongue when wanted.