A VETERAN’S DECEASE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3586, 27 July 1912, Page 7

A VETERAN’S DECEASE

ALMOST A CENTENARIAN. There will be placed in bis last resting place to-day a veteran of the first war in New Zealand —Mr -Frederick Keating who died at Gisborne on Thursday evening at the age of 94 years. The Veteran's Association has invited its members to attend the funeral and a conveyance will leave the Masonic at 1.45 p.m. Hie deceased Vi ivran was enrolled in the Haw i: s Lav military settlers in 13b4, and .-erted three years in that company Ho was at the fight against the Hauliaus at Pakaromaroma in 1865; at the taking of Pokomaira pa in the same year: at Hick’s Bay in 1865, when the natives were captured and transported to the Chatham Islands. The company disbanded in 1867, and for his services he received SI acres of land at Alohaka. where he settled, starting a pig farm. A fresh scare occurred, and lie was asked by Major Lambert to join the Wairoa militia. Ho saw no fighting there, and later came to Ormond, and in 1869 he joined the Ormond militia.

The late Air Keating served in New Zealand in the war against Hongi Heke, a-t the Bay of Islands. He was then a sergeant in the 99th Regiment of foot. When the regiment returned to England he was discharged, but soon after entered the Royal Marines, and during the Crimean war served in the Baltic under Sir Charles Napier. He joined the military settlers in New Zealand in the early sixties, and came to reside in Gisborne about 1874, when lie made his famous orchard and garden at Alangapapa.