N.Z.'s OLDEST
DEATH OF CENTENARIAN.
REMINISCENCES OF WAIRAU MASSACRE.
(Per Press Association.) Blenheim, Mar. 29.
The death is announced of Mrs. Elizabeth Rorc, reputed to be 107 years of age, and the oldest inhabitant of New Zealand. She was the daughter of Captain Blenkinsopp, of the whaling hrig Caroline, which frequented Cloudy Bay during the heyday of the whale fisheries from 1821 until 1840. Blenkinsopp married a Maori wife, the daughter of a local chieftain, and purchased from To Rauparaha the whole of the Wairau Plain, the price being a spiked cannon, which is still preserved in Blenheim. To Rauparnha repudiated the bargain, and the incident had a direct bearing on the Wairau massacre of 1843, which was tho beginning of the wars between Maon end pakeha. Mrs. Rore, despite her great age, retained her faculties until recently, she met with an accident, in which she sustained a broken leg, since when she has been in Wai’au Hospital. Alfred Rore, the well-known horse-owner and trainer, is her son.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 87, 29 March 1930, Page 4
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168N.Z.'s OLDEST Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 87, 29 March 1930, Page 4
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