Early Pakeha settlers to Canterbury often wrote about the strange winds hitting the settlement: "For a week past, a furious north-westerly gale has been blowing down the gorges… and sweeping across the great shelterless plains with irresistible force".
Needing to conduct his research in a non-English language to satisfy the conception of anthropology at the time, he hit upon the settlement in the Ceiriog Valley, not far beyond the Cheshire border.
This week, two mortgage-crisis settlements hit the news: one potential and one official.
These first hit the headlines with Jack Welch's divorce settlement.
Legal cases began to make headlines when settlements for clergy violations began to hit the millions.
What's more, a settlement without any nondisclosure agreements means you've really hit the ball out of the park.
But a settlement means someone hits the jackpot when you die, and the sooner that happens, the more money that person makes.
Results were hit by settlement charges totaling 19 cents a share.
News of the settlement hit Apple shares on Friday, sending the stock down almost 5% during afternoon trading.
After he recovered from the car accident ("I was driving when the gentleman -- oops, that's my Ritz-Carlton mentality -- passed out, crossed a lane and hit us"), the small settlement enabled him to move to Manhattan to study acting.
