CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6] — Page 156

AREVNITORIZATEN S

2,

taking the orphans to the Colony of New Zealand, where, at Auckland, the family

of.

is

• her late husband reside, and who being farmers and well to do in the world, it is more than probable she and her babes would find a house, but in her present distressed cir cumstances she is unable to defray the expenses of her voyage to New Zealand, and therefore throws herself on the

mercy of this Government, fully hoping that as His Excellency Major General Jervois an old and distinguished soldier, he will : take her bereaved state into his kind consi- deration, and together with the honorable members of the Executive Council cause her with her two helpless children, (one 3 years of age- and the other only eight months), to be sent to New Zealand, and Petitioner will ever be

be grateful for such kindness. Petitioner begs to attack a Dischargo Certificate from the 64th. Regiment

at now in India, her

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late husband having served therein six

years

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and nearly four months _ and at the time

of purchasing his discharge with the intention of settling in New Zealand, he was Canteen Sergeant of the 64th Regiment Petitioner mentions this fact, as it clearly

shows that her late husband trustworthy

tvas

a good

and

man, possessing the confidence

of the Commanding officer of his Regiment.

She now

-respectfully submits her

Lo

distant

case and that of hed two children thus left destitute in this Foreign country, from their native land, to your merciful_ and charitable attention, feeling assured

that

t you

will view our

position in it's true light.

unfortunate

Signed) Margaret Hall.

Victoria, 118.

April, 1853, (Fruelopy),

Maine

Colonial Secretary.