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 of his life, the wound never healed, and, no doubt, hastened his end, strong man though he was. Mr. Green bought land in Little Akaloa, and was very well off before he died. He married late in life a widow, but had no family.

Thomas Cullen, 1840-50, was a ship carpenter who landed in Wellington in 1841-2. In 1843 he came to Pigeon Bay, and assisted in building the first two houses of the author’s father. He also built, or assisted to build, Mr. Greenwood’s house at Purau, Mr. John Gebbie’s, and some other smaller dwellings. He went to Hobart in the end of the “forties” before the Canterbury settlement was talked of. He worked there at his trade (ship building), made money, and retired to Scotland in the “eighties.” He came from Glasgow originally, and was a credit to his country, proving himself the right sort of man for a young colony. In all his long life he never tasted spirits, although he kept a hotel in Hobart for ten years. He never married.

John Hay, 1840-50, Mrs. Hay, Jessie (now Mrs. Patterson), James (now solicitor at Timaru), Marion, Agnes, Margaret. Mr. Hay landed in Wellington in 1841-2. He