3 May 2013

Frederick Edward Maning in Auckland, New Zealand

In Symonds Street Cemetery:
 
 
'IN MEMORY OF
FREDERICK EDWARD MANING
KNOWN TO COLONIAL FAME
AS THE AUTHOR OF
OLD NEW ZEALAND.
HE CAME TO THIS LAND IN HIS YOUTH
HE LIVED IN IT TO THE VERGE OF OLD AGE
IN NEW ZEALAND'S FIRST NATIVE WAR.
HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY WELL IN THE FIELD.
IN LATER LIFE A JUDGE OF HER LAND COURT
HE DID THE STATE GOOD SERVICE ON THE BENCH'
 
'WHEN FULL OF YEARS YET FULL OF STRENGTH
STRICKEN WITH A PAINFUL MALADY
HE SOUGHT RELIEF IN THE MOTHER COUNTRY
WHERE HE DIED ON THE 25TH JULY 1883
AGED 72 YEARS.'
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HIS LAST WORDS WERE
LET ME BE BURIED IN THE FAR OFF LAND
I LOVE SO WELL

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'HERE THEREFORE LOVING FRIENDS INTERRED HIM
IN HIS LAST RESTING PLACE
IN THE LAND OF HIS ADOPTION
AND HAVE RAISED THIS MEMORIAL
TO ONE OF NEW ZEALAND'S EARLIEST COLONISTS
AND MOST FAITHFUL SONS.'

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