Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 070

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First building on Burke’s Barretts’s Hotel corner Manchester & High St in fifties. Put up by one George Mouritz, afterwards occupied by Mrs Allen (Coker) on her arrival as a single lady. She afterwards married old George Allen and from him got the land upon which Coker’s public stands. The house was altered and a license got by Mrs O'Hara, the Golden Harp or Harp of Erin and so it remained for some years. Sergeant Pender then got his bride from here, a daughter of the house.

Another pub was on the site of Duncan’s foundry, part of it still standing, a few years ago. One Noonan, or Gosling, first got the license for the Duke of Wellington as it was called. Sam. Williams, the old whaler, from the point, Timaru then kept it and the last Fuchs, when the license was transferred to the building on the other side. Poor old Sam. Williams, a hardy, tough old American whaler man, had been at the point Timaru, before the Town ship, then built a pub, when the old silly married an immigrant girl one Sally Gardner about a third of his age. That laid Sam out. Pub went, and all the rest of it. The old story.