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...Picton, New Zealand...
...IRISH Picton...
...Trinidad's Governor Thomas Picton applied the torture to a young mulatto girl who had been implicated in a theft. The episode, with a number of other abuses of power, led to a far-reaching scandal and intrigue. Picton's principal opponent was his first commissioner, Colonel William Fullarton, who wanted to create a Trinidad of small multiracial landowners whose basic human rights were assured...
...says Hull, "and never could be. As soon as the season is over, I want nothing but my farm." Yes, but which farm? Bobby owns a 150-acre spread near Millbrook, Ont, two more of 100 and 110 acres outside Demorestville, the 330-acre Hullvue Polled Hereford Farms near Picton, and a half interest in the 240-acre Golden Hawk Hereford Ranch near Demorestville. Around those various properties are scattered his 540 head of cattle, including a prize Polled Hereford bull named Hardean Woodrow Masterpiece-one of whose heifers sold at auction last year for $2,500. Hull does...
...IRISH Picton, Canada...