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HISTORICAL RECORD

JUBILEE RE-UNION

OLD COLONISTS,

INCLUDING

Roll of Pioneer Settlers who Arrived Prior to 1843.

COMPILED BY J. J. CRAIG, AT, AUCKLAND,-^ 1892.

^ . PRICE - - - ONE SHILLING
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WILSONS AND HOBTON, GENERAL PRINTEB8, QUEEN AND WYNDHAM STKEETS.
.MDCCCX<3III.

Extracted from the "New Zealand Herald," October IOth and Nth, 1892.

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HISTORICAL RECORD

JUBILEE RE-UNION

OLD COLONISTS,

INCLUDING

Roll of Pioneer Settlers who Arrived Prior to 1843.

COMPILED BY J. J. CRAIG, AT AUCKLAND, IN 1892.

PRICE - - - ONE SHILLING

3ucklanti ;
WILSONS AND HOBTON, GENERAL PRINTERS, QUEEN AND WYNDHAM STREETS.

MDCCCXCIII.

PREFACE.

i l i HE Committee of the Jubilee Re-union of Old Colonists, deeming it desirable
that the full account of the proceedings at the Demonstration should be
published in pamphlet form, as a, permanent memorial, have compiled the
following pages from the narrative given in the "New Zealand Herald."
Appended is the Old Colonists' Roll, etc., compiled from the information
forwarded to the Hon. Secretary (Mr. J. J. Craig), and a copy of which, inscribed
on parchment, is deposited in the Free Public Library. The pamphlet, the
Committee hope, will prove of great interest to old colonists, their friends and
relatives, as an interesting souvenir of a great historical event, and of consider
able use for purposes of reference.
Auckland, 1892.

THE OLD COLONISTS' JUBILEE.

FIRST SCOTTISH SETTLERS.

SUNDAY, October 9, 1842 — the
Duchess of Argyle and Jane Gifford
sailed up Auckland Harbour, bring
ing to our shores the pioneer body of
Scottish settlers, numbering all told over
500, but it was not till Monday evening
(the 10th) that some of them landed,
there being o, strong westerly breeze
and no proper landing - place. Their
descendants are now to be found by hun
dreds throughout the length and breadth
of the province, as they "came to stay."
They were the first emigrant ships that
ever left Great Britain for Auckland. These
settlers, bound together by a common faith
(Presbyterianism) and nationality, for the
most part, have maintained their bonds of
friendship to each other, and the present is
the fourth re-union in which they havo
joined together to celebrate the historic
event of their arrival in the colony — the first
being the 20th anniversary (1862), the 25th
(1867), the 40th (1882), and now the jubilee
(1892). It is wall that these historical
landmarks should be remembered and
observed, for a nation which has no history
is in a bad way.
Among other vessels that arrived in New
Zealand during that year were : — Tuscan,
Bombay, Shamrock, St. Ueorge, Fifeshire,
Osprey, Anne of Arbroath, Thyne, Indem
nity, Louisa Campbell, Essex, London,
Timandra, Bolleno, Union, Westminster,
Blenheim, Himalaya, Supply, New York
Packet Chelydra, and Brougham.
At the 40th anniversary Mr. J. J. Craig
was then, as now, the hon. secretary of the
celebration, and the chairman (Mr. R.
Graham), and his father (Mr. Joseph Craig)
enjoined upon him if they had passed away
before the jubilee anniversary that he
would see to its being fittingly honoured.
He has well fulfilled the trust reposed in
him, for these old colonists have both
passed away, and the mass of work, clerical
and otherwise, devolving upon him has
been very great, including, as it does,
correspondence with hundreds of old colo
nists, and the compilation of a list of over
650 of them, of over half-a-century's stand
ing. He has been the head and hand —the
heart and soul — of the movement, and it
must be gratifying to him and to the com
mittee to find their labours rewarded with
so much success.
The re-union will be a gathering of old
colonists of every creed and nationality, of
50 years' standing. This will make the
event unique and historic, and there will be

in the Choral Hall, to-night, a larger
assemblage of the pioneer settlers of Auck
land than we can ever hope to see gathered
together in one building again. The
following particulars concerning the pioneer
Scottish settlers to Auckland will be of
interest to our readers :—
THE DUCHESS OF ARGYLE AND
JANE GIFFORD EXPEDITION.
The Scottish emigrant settlers for Auck
land embarked at Greenock, in the ships
Duchess of Argyle (Captain Tait), on the
10th, and the Jane Gifford (Captain Paul),
on the 16th June, and both arrived in
Auckland harbour on the 9th October,
1842. Prior to their departure from Green
ock, some of the Presbyterian divines held
services among the emigrants, and as some
of them were rather home sick on leaving
the land of their birth, cheered them up by
assuring them that they were going to a
land flowing with milk and honey. Con
sidering that the late Mrs. James Coates
had only about a year or so before imported
a cow to Auckland by the Chelydra from
Sydney, the ministerial statement was
based upon the milk of human kind
ness, rather than upon anything else.
As for the bee, at that date in our
history he was not much in evidence, but
the emigrants found, on arrival, that the
mosquito was "in it," and if anything
more busy than the honey provider. There
are some of our citizens who remember, as
children, being taken down to Greenock,
by their parents, to see the Scottish set
tlers off. Mr. Thorburn (Thames), who
was a passenger by the Duchess of Argyle,
kept a journal of the voyage, part of which
he has still in his possession, and Mr.
Robert Graham, a passenger by the Jane
Gifford, kept a diary. Another passenger
by the Jane Gifford kept a journal, which
is now in the Auckland Free Public Library.
The Duchess of Argyle left the Tail of the
Bank of the Clyde in tow of the steamer
Samson. The voyage was rather eventful.
A number of the children died from measles,
and a young man, one of the crew, was lost
the third night after passing the island of
St. Paul, supposed to have been swept over
by the jibsail, as he had some clothes dry
ing in the heads, but he was not missed till
the following morning. In the Jane Gifford
all the passengers were Scotch save one
family. The late Mr. Robert Graham (a
Jane Gifford), at the 40th annivessary told
a good story about the voyage. He said

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there was a couple on board blessed with
one child, the infant apparently not being
possessed of the most amiable temper, as
night and day it kept squalling, to the
annoyance of the other passengers. The
husband said to his wife one day, " Please
the bairn." A quarter of an hour after
wards it set up another unearthly howl,
and he angrily said, "Peggy, how is it ye
dinna please the bairn?" Peggy replied,
with unanswerable Scottish logic, "How
can I please the bairn, John, when I'm no
pleased mysel'?" On the 7th October the
Jane Gifford was off the coast opposite the
Bay of Islands, and we give the following
interesting account of the trip up the coast,
the arrival in harbour, and the state of
affairs in Auckland, from
MR. "ROBERT GRAHAM'S DIARY.
Thursday, October 7, 1842. — A beautiful
morning. We are opposite the Bay of
Islands. Calm most of the day, but at
night a breeze sprang up, carrying us along
at eight knots.
Saturday, October 8. — We are nearly
opposite Point Rodney. About one o'clock
we saw a sail ahead ; it appeared a large
vessel, and the captain thinks it is the
Duchess of Argyle. The breeze favouring
us, we were making fast up to her when
we saw a boat go alongside, which we
supposed to be a pilot boat. About five
o'clock the town of Auckland was in sight.
At seven a boat came alongside with a pilot
for us, and the captain was glad to see him.
Two Maoris were in the boat, and every eye
was drawn to them. The captain asked if
the Duchess of Argyle was ahead of us, and
he said she was about 14 miles ahead, and
on a sandbank. He informed us of the
death of Governor Hobson, and of the
dulness of trade and high price of provi
sions, which did not encourage the immi
grants much.
Sunday, October 9.- — On Sunday morning
the Duchess of Argyle got off the sandbank,
and the mate came on board our vessel to
get the news. Strange to say there were 17
births and eight deaths on board the Jane
Gifford, and precisely the same number of
each on board the Duchess. The vessels
sailed slowly up harbour. We could not
get ashore, as it was blowing all the morn
ing and there was no proper landing-place.
In the evening went ashore. A number of
Maoris were standing on the beach, and
welcomed us to New Zealand. They all
seemed glad to see us, shaking hands, and
talking in their own language.
Monday, October 10. — A disagreeable
wet morning, and blowing. The two
vessels arriving at the same time has caused
a great deal of stir in the town. It is re
ported that Government is going to give
the immigrants employment at levelling
the streets in the town ; that the married
men are to have 2s 6d a day, and the single
men Is 6d ; that they are to have the use
of the Courthouse, and » large hall or
printing-office until, they can procure more
comfortable accommodation for themselves.

Empty houses are numerous, consequently
rents are low. A small place can be got
for 6s a week.
Tuesday^ October 11.— Wet morning
and blowing hard. The passengers are to
be landed to-day and the goods to-morrow.
The expense of landing the goods is 6s per
ton, besides the risk of getting them wet.
Hear that matters are better at the Bay of
Islands, and have resolved to go there.
Wednesday, October 12.— The town of
Auckland lies in a hollow, and the houses
are built close down to the beach. Some of
them are very "natty." Shortland-street
appears to be the principal street. In the
meantime, the first shop is a grog shop;
the next is Mr. Mcf.ennan's : the third a
shoemaker's ; the fourth a baker's ; then a
grog shop ; next a pork stand ; and then
another grog shop. There seems to be a
grog shop for every three of all the other
trades put together. Shortland Crescent is
a pretty steep hill. On the top of it is the
church, the Custom-house, bank, and the
public buildings, and adjacent the barracks.
A road leads to Manukau, a distance of 10
miles, where a coach can run the whole way.
Mr. Gould and I went out this road four
miles co a place called Epsom. There is a
little cultivation going on there, but none
nearer the town. Saw some nice cottages
and fine gardens, and two farms, of about
10 acres, each under cultivation, in wheat
and barley. There were also two herds of
cattle, with bells on their necks to indicate
their whereabouts when in the fern, which
is everywhere around. Observed one
plough at work, drawn by two bullocks.
The Maoris to be seen about are seemingly
quite happy, fond of smoking ; and appear
to have pork, fish, and potatoes in abund
ance. They are intelligent looking, have
most pleasant countenances, and are all
mostly tattooed, the chiefs in particular
being elaborately so.
Friday, October 14. — Beautiful day.
Auckland looks 50 per cent, better to-day.
Could not before cross the street without
being up to the ankles or knees in clay.
Strolled about the town all day.
Saturday, October 15. — Wet, with occa
sional sunshine. The immigrants for the
last three days have been employed in
levelling the streets. They do not much
like it.
The harbour master and immigration
agent (Captain Rough), in a notice in the
Government Gazette of October, 1842, gives
the passenger rolls as follow : —Duchess of
Argyle : Male adults, 90 ; females, 90 ;
under 14, both sexes, 117 ; total, 297.
Jane Gifford : Male adults, 82 ; females,
81 ; under 14, both sexes, 75 ; total, 238.
Grand total, 535. The emigrants are de
scribed as farm servants, labourers, saw
yers, gardeners, farmers, blacksmiths, car
penters, joiners, millwrights, masons, brick
layers, stonemasons, and artisans of various
trades. The females were chiefly farm
servants, dairymaids, and domestic ser
vants. Parties desirous of engaging the

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emigrants, says Captain Rough, can apply
at the office daily, which was on the site of
the present Auckland police station.
The emigrants did not land as a body till
Tuesday morning, October 11th. European
women were at a premium in those days,
owing to the disproportion between the
sexes, and it was customary for settlers "on
the marry," when an emigrant vessel came
into port, to go on board and see if any
suitable single women had arrived, or if
more bashful to hang about the landing on
the beach at Soldiers' Point till the
young women came ashore. Two pawky
Scots on this occasion got the start of their
fellows, for taking a dingy they pulled off
to one of the ships, and clambering up the
chains, reached the deck, where the single
women were mustered to go ashore. One
of the Caledonians jocosely tapped on the
shoulder a Scottish lassie (but like Dibdin's
British tar, he " never laid a hand upon
a woman save in kindness "), and looking
to his mate, said significantly, " This is
mine!" His friend retorted, "Oh, is that
your little game ? well this is mine," tapping
another Scottish maiden good-humouredly
on the shoulder. Strange to say, for the
story would be completely spoilt otherwise,
matters were satisfactorily adjusted in both
cases, for Scottish lasses are of a practical
turn of mind ; the two couples were
married, " lived happily ever afterwards,"
and their descendants are in our midst to
day. As showing how brisk the matri
monial market was in those days, there is a
tradition that some of the single women
got "engaged" between the landing at
Soldiers' Point and the emigrants' quarters
in Mechanics' Bay, while strolling along
the beach, which goes to show that they
meant colonisation, and were off a Scottish
courtship, which has been defined as
"nippin' and "skartinV Many of the
passengers by the Jane Gifford inter
married with those by the Duchess of
Argyle, while the " Giffords" were always
sweet on the " Duchesses."
The emigrants as they came ashore on
that wet and stormy Tuesday morning,
struggled through the mud on the beach,
only to encounter the mud on shore as
they straggled to Mechanics' Bay to the
raupo whares assigned to them. Some of the
young women sat down on what ought to
have been the roadside, but there was no
road, to wipe the " glaur " off their stock
ings, and asked each other, with bitter
cynicism, if this was the land the Greenock
ministers talked about as flowing with milk
aud honey. Had anyoDe told them that
half a century hence the fern-clad slopes
of Auckland would carry a resident popu
lation of 50,000, with all the luxuries of
civilization, and that the steam ferry, the
railway, and the telegraph would be in full
swing, they would have told the prophetic
seer that he was a lunatic ! Two of the
women got shakedowns in a printing office,
near O'Connell street, but of course occa
sionally made " pie," and the printers'
devil's language was " frequent." A droll
incident occurred to the single women. Over

a dozen of them were quartered in a raupo
hut together, and this particular evening
they had been celebrating elsewhere the
marriage of one of their number. They re
turned home late, and were sleeping the
sleep of the just, on their shakedowns,
about the witching hour "ayont the twal,"
when a real "Captain Cooker" came along,
and seeing a hole in the side of the whare,
concluded there was something good inside
for supper, and determined to gratify his
curiosity. He succeeded in getting inside
through the aperture, and was just cavort
ing over the prostrate forms in search of
grub, when an unearthly yell broke the
silence of the midnight air, from the lungs
of a dozen Scottish maidens. The pig was
considerably more frightened than they
were — in fact, completely demoralised — and
instead of retreating the way he came,
he simply went bang through the side of
the whare, with each particular bristle on
end, and saved his bacon !
The emigrants were set to work, till
general employment could be got for them,
at cutting down the Crescent, etc. Mr.
Thomas Finlay (now of Mauku) was foreman
of a party employed on the erection of a
stockade round the old gaol at the foot of
Victoria-street (site of the Theatre Royal
block of buildings), the work being done
under Mr. Cleghorn, architect, the father
of Mr. Cleghorn, of Epsom. The single men
got Is 6d a day, and the married men 2s 6d.
What would our " unemployed " of to-day
say to that, with Government supplies of
tent, tools, Labour Bureau lodging-house
tickets, Government passes by steamer and
railway, and co-operative works, at wages
of from 8s to 12s a day ? These Scottish immi
grants kept up their old friendship for each
other after settling down here, or in the
Tamaki, Otahuhu, and Mangere districts
around Auckland. When Mr. Jas. Robert
son, sen., started his rope works in
Mechanics' Bay, his old shipmates assisted
and encouraged him in every way possible.
No vehicle could reach the Bay, and the
timber had to be rafted along the beach
line by Soldiers' Point and Official Bay,
from Town (or Commercial) Bay. Chap
man's bullock " Cockie " did the shore raft
ing in the early days ; and there was a.
tradition that on these aquatic expeditions
' ' all that could be seen above water " (for
Chapman and "Cockie "were inseparable)
"were Chapman's head and 'Cookie's'
horns ! " The barrels of tar for tarring
rope could not be rafted, and they were
carried to the top of Constitution
Hill, and allowed to roll over the
cliff into the swamp below, where they
were subsequently fished out by Mr. Robert
son and his men. When Mr. Henry Niccol
started shipbuilding in Mechanics' Bay, his
old shipmates similarly cheered him on in
his new industry. The old "Duchesses"
and "Giffords" would make a holiday of it
at every launch, and come and greet
their fellow-worker with good wishes
and sympathy. As showing the state of
the roads in those times, the late Mr.
Joseph May once related that he well

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remembered when the first cart started for
Onehunga, the carter getting as far as
Newmarket, where the cart got bogged in
a gully, and he had to retnrn to town, the
dray remaining there for a week afterwards !
The colonists of to-day have reason to be
grateful to the pioneer settlers who endured
the hardships of early colonisation, and laid
deep and broad the foundations in this fair
land of a young nation in the Federation of
the Australasian Group.
Dr. J. Logan Campbell (the chairman of
to-night's meeting) performed many ants
of kindness to these emigrants, one of those
we heard narrated only last week by one
of the "Duchesses." The emigrant had
been working at Epsom, and in some way
had hurt himself internally while working
there. He came home to his whare in the
Kyber Pass, fell sick, and the seal of death
was upon him. Dr. Campbell, though not
practising his profession in the ordinary
way, went out frequently and tended to
him. On the morning of her husband's
death the new-made widow said to the
doctor, who had called in to see her in her
affliction, that she had nothing left with
which to pay him for his trouble. He not
only set her mind at rest on that score, but
placed in her hands a couple of sovereigns
as showing a practical sympathy with her
in the loss of the breadwinner. In the
early days the name of the firm of Brown
and Campbell was a household word, and
there were few branches of trade in which
they had not a share. The popular belief
came out once, innocently, and in quite a
natural but amusing form, and which
greatly tickled Dr. Campbell when it was
narrated to him. Two women — a " Duchess"
and a "Jane Gifford" — were going up
Shortland Crescent, when one of them saw
young Owen Brown (son of Mr. Wm.
Brown, of the firm of Brown and Campbell)
passing up the street. The " Duchess"
said, " Wha's bairn's that?" The "Jane"
replied, " Div ye no ken wha's bairn's
thai?" "Na, I dinna ken." " Weel,"
replied the other, with an air of conscious
authority, " it's jist Broon and Caw-
mell's !"
PREVIOUS CELEBRATIONS.
The 20th anniversary of the arrival
of the Duchess of Argyle and the Jane Gif
ford was celebrated by a supper and ball in
the Oddfellows' Hall, on the 8th October,
1862. Mr. Robert Graham presided, and
the vice-chairmen were the He v. David
Bruce and the Rev. John Macky, and the
sub-vice-chairmen were Messrs. James
Robertson, George Webster, and Henry
Niccol. Among the speakers were Captain
Daldy, Messrs. Joseph Mays, James Robert
son, H. Niccol, D. H. McKenzie, Patterson,
Joseph Cochrane, P. Macdonald, Andrew
Beveridge, DavidGraham,andT. Tudehope.
One of the "Giffords" present expressed the
hope that the 40th anniversary would be
celebrated by them, but he never lived to
see it. One of Mr. Thorburn's daughters,
with a kindly forethought and patriotism
which did her infinite credit, commemorated
he event by presenting her husband on the

night of the reunion with a fine baby, and
raising the patriarchal Thorburn to the first
degree— of grandfather. Mr. Thorburn
writes to the secretary (Mr. J. J. Craig), ex
pressing his intention to be at the jubilee.
He forwards a photo of his 80th grandchild,
and 100th descendant, the roll being 14 sons
and daughters, 80 grandchildren, and six
great-grandchildren. The end is not yet,
for Mr. Thorburn concludes his letter
by saving that 10 had been born since
December, 1S90, and then follows the ora
cular sentence, and "'from information
received,' ' The Campbells are coming.' "
On the 9th October, 1867, the 25th anni
versary was honoured by holding a banquet
in the Oddfellows' Hall. Mr. James
Robertson presided, the vice-chairman being
Mr. George Webster. Among the speakers
were Captain Ashby, Captain Daldy,
Messrs. D. Graham, H. Hardington, James
Smart, H. Goodfellow, W. J. Hurst, Crispe,
Webster, Robert Robertson. Mr. R.
Graham was in Wellington at the time
attending to his Parliamentary duties.
The 40th anniversary took place on the
9th October, 1882, in the Lome-street Hall,
Mr. Robert Graham presiding. Mr. James
Robertson, sen., of Mangere, the chairman
of the 25th anniversary, was a week or two
previously looking forward with hopeful
ness and gladness to the approaching cele
bration, but he 'was never fated to see it,
being called away by the hand of death.
The principal speakers were the chairman,
Captain Daldy, and Mr. Joseph May.
Among those present of the survivors of the
old band on the platform in a semi-circle
were —
Duchess of Argyle (red and white
rosettes) : Messrs. Henry Niccol, P.
McPhersou, Peter Ferguson, Donald
Taylor, Robert Leslie, James Sims, John
Sims, Thomas Finlay, Mr. and Mrs. Tude
hope, Mr. and Mrs. Pollok, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Laurie, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Robert
son, Mr. and Mrs. Darroch (Mahurangi),
Mesdames Winks, McPherson, Moore, Nay-
smith, Hume, Hannah, Allison, T. McEwin,
D. Jackson, Wishart, Cowan, Richard Came
ron, sen., W. McDonald.
Jane Gifford (blue and white rosettes) :
Messrs. R. Graham, Joseph Craig, David
Russell, sen., David Russell, jun., W. Miller,
Robert Scott, Robert Scott (Bay of Islands),
T. Wylie (Papatoitoi), Alexander Dingwall,
Mr. and Mrs. W. Jamieson, Mr. and Mrs. J,
Culpan, Mesdames Hendry, Somervell, Mc-
Shane, Gollan, Morrison, Quinn, Wilson
(Thames). Mr. Graham read a list of passengers
who had furnished the number of their
descendants :— J. Allison, 102 ; J. McLel-
lan, 58 ; J. Sims, 57 ; Mrs. Barry, 57 ; J.
Craig, 52 ; — Alexander, 40 ; Mrs. Harris,
36 ; A. Smith, 29 ; J. Cromwell, 29 ; T.
McEwin, 26 ; Henry Niccol, 26 ; J. Finlay
25 ; P. Ferguson, 25 ; W. McDonald, 22 ;
W. Jamieson, 21 ; J. Culpan, 18-' Mc'
Brierty (Mahurangi), 15 ; Robert Graham
12 ; T. Tudehope, 7 ; Robert Laurie 4 '•
total, 662. This represents but a s'mali
number of the total descendants of the
immigrants by the above vessels, as onlv
returns forwarded were read. *

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9

The writer of this article was present at
that anniversary, and witnessed many of
the pathetic and amusing scenes which took
place, for many of the old immigrants who
met that night gathered from North to
South — from the Bay of Islands to Wai-
kato — had not been in Auckland for a
quarter of a century, and had not seen each
other since they left the ships and landed
in Auckland. Some of the rencontres be
tween the survivors were very amusing.
In one instance a couple of old fogies met,
one having the advantage of his fellow in
the matter of recognition, when the follow
ing colloquy took place : " Div ye no mind
me ?" to which the uncertain one with cha
racteristic caution replied, "Maybe I dae,
maybe Idinna." " I'm Tarn  ." " Losh
preserve me, ye're nae Tam !" " Aye, it's
me ; it's Tam." Then, memory swiftly
uniting again the bonds of friendship, came
the quick and hearty response, " Eh, mon,
Tam, gie's yer haun' !" and the two old
cronies wrung each other's hands till the
rheum coursed down their cheeks, quite
forgetful of the cold calculating injunction,
" Behave yoursel' afore folk." In one case
an old lady of 70 " made up" to an old
gentleman of over fourscore and greeted
him, but he failed to remember her in the
Jane Gifford. " Why," she replied , " my
cabin was next to yer ain." Slowly
memory reasserted itself with the octo
genarian, and peering into the face of the
venerable dame, he quaintly remarked
as if they had parted but a year or
two ago, "Eh, Mrs. — — , but ye're
getting auld !" One remarkable charac
teristic of the gathering was the
number of widows amongst the sur
viving passengers of the above ships.
Somehow or other, though the men and
women of those early days fought the
battle of life together, and took each their
fair share of work, the matrons seem to
have been the best " preserved" of the two,
while the co-worker succumbed. It was
easy to see, too, that the love of Scotland
and its national customs was as strong and
burned as brightly in these old settlers as
when, over 40 years before, they left the
" land of the mountain and the flood" to
come out to this new land to find a fresh
career for themselves and openings for their
children. When they heard again the old
songs which they had taken in with their
mother's milk — crooned by their grannies
over their cradles, or warbled in the long
Past at their wedding festivities — and heard
again the drone of the chanter and the
skirl of the bagpipes, they were visibly
affected by the reminiscences thus called
up. The question uppermost in the minds
of these old people, as they conversed to
gether during the evening, was, " How
many of us will be left to see the jubilee
anniversary ?"
The various ships included in the
roll are the Duchess of Argyle, Jane
Gifford, Brilliant, Tyne, Louisa Campbell,
Annie Watson, Chelydra, Slains' Castle,
Sophia Pate, Boleno, Westminster,
Bombay, Shamrock, Active, Buffalo,

Brampton, Coromandel, Brazil Packet,
Bellina, Rover, Martha, Nimrod, Porcu
pine, Lady Lilferd, Fifeshire, Osprey,
Annie of Arbroath, Victoria, Fortune,
James, Tryphena, Hope, Himalaya, Velo
cipede, Byron, Bengal, Surrey, Aurora,
Amelia Thompson, Diana, Union, Earl
Durham, Timandra, Exporter, Bee,
Antilla, Berman, Lloyds, Caroline, Black
bird, Frances Speight, Jupiter, Martha
Ridgway, Canterbury, Indemnity, Cur
rency Lass, St. George, Clyde, Jane,
Deborah, Oriental, Harlequin, Dolhi,
Tuscan, Pusey Hall, Adelaide, Clifford, and
William Bryant.
The oldest colonist (native born) on the
list is Mr. John Wheeler King (76), whose
father was a missionary, and came with
Rev. Samuel Marsden, in 1814. He was
born at the Bay of Islands, in 1816, and the
oldest man, Mr. R. Seccombe, aged 90.
Mrs. Letheridge heads the record on the
list of New Zealand born women, having
been born at Bay of Islands 1817. Mrs.
John Probert is the oldest woman (93).
Some of the old colonists on the roll '
came down with Governor Hobson from
Sydney. One, indeed, Mr. Alexander
Thomas Harris, was the first New Zealand
settler to welcome Governor Hobson, as
they met in Sydney ; Mr. McQuade,
who came down with them in the West
minster ; and Mr. John England, who was
at Governor Hobson's official landing in the
colony. A second, Mr. William Young
(79) was with Governor Hobson at
the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. A
fourth, Archdeacon Maunsell (82), visited
Auckland shortly after the Governor and
the Government officers reached Auckland.
Ho found Governor Hobson, Felton Mat
thews, Surveyor-General (who laid out
Auckland), Captain Symonds, and Clarke
(Protector of Aborigines), in a little
hut in Official Bay, and all around were
native plantations. He held service with
them and their few workmen before the Rev.
J. Churton (Colonial Chaplain) came from
Wellington. A fifth, Mr. H. N. Warner (73)
pulled in a boat race in the first regatta
held on the waters of the Waitemata (18th
September, 1840). The Annie Watson
arrived three days previously, and on the
18th took possession in the name of the
Queen, the flag being run up and a
salute fired from what was afterwards
known as Soldiers' Point, The regatta was
in honour of the occasion, and consisted of
three events, the one in which Mr. Warner
took part being a contest between the five-
oared gig of the Surveyor-General and a
six-oared gig from the Annie Watson. The
Annie Watson ran on a bank and stuck ;
the Surveyor-General's boat grounded also,
but got off first and won the race. A sixth,
Mr. Wm. Mason (83), architect of St. Paul's,
and now of the firm of Mason and
Wales, architects, of Dunedin, who re
ceived an invitation, was unable to
be present, through age and infirmities,
though he takes a keen interest in
everything pertaining to Auckland. He
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Bay of Islands, and brought it up in the
Annie Watson to Auckland, erecting it
the same day he arrived in Official
Bay. He and Mr. Ed. Williams, mis
sionary, slept in it that night, and
were the first two Europeans who slept
in a wooden house in Auckland. One
of the Annie Watson's passengers says
he well remembers Dr. Campbell and Mr.
Win. Brown pulling up from Brown's
Island (Motu Korea) in a dug-out, and
coming alongside the vessel to get the news
of the outside world.
One of the oldest colonists at the Old
Colonists' Jubilee Demonstration was Mr.
E. M. Williams, who has been in New
Zealand since 1823. He translated the
Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, at the Bay
of Islands, and was present when it was
signed in February, 1840. In April, 1840,
he was appointed by Governor Hobson to
accompany Major Bunbury, in H.M.s.
Herald, among the several islands, to obtain
the signatures of natives to the Treaty. The
mission occupied three months. Mr. Wil
liams has in his possession the Blue Book,
with facsimiles of the draft treaty, and
documents. In September, 1840, he ac
companied the first Government party
to Auckland, and was appointed by the
Governor interpreter, clerk of court, post
master, and assistant to the manager of
Public Works, Mr. William Mason, taking
up their abode in what is known as Official
Bay. The next to live in Official Bay was
Captain D. Rough, harbourmaster ; Mr.
Felton Matthews, Surveyor-General ; and
Dr. Johnson, Colonial Surgeon — hence the
name Official Bay — Mechanics' Bay, from
the workmen being quartered there ; and
Commercial (or Town) Bay, as being the
place where the stores were put ; George's
Bay and Freeman's Bay were so called after
Mr. George Cooper, sen., and Mr. Free
man, who pitched their tents there. Mr.
Williams was one of the crew who pulled in
the Surveyor General's gig at the regatta of
Sept. 18, 1840, commemorative of the found
ing of Auckland. The Maoris at that time
had plan tations of potatoesonthepresentsite
of Government House and grounds, and Mr.
Williams purchased the crops on behalf of the
Government, in case some of the Europeans
might make free with the potatoes, and
thus bring on strife between the two races.
Government House was brought out from
England in sections, and the timber stacked
on the bank about where the N.Z. Insur
ance Buildings now stand. A fire broke
out in the vicinity, and extended to the
stack of timber, but by great exertions,
carrying buckets of water from the sea, the
progress of the fire was arrested, and only the
ends of the timbers were scorched or charred.
Mr. Williams went to Akaroa, and when
there went ashore with Major Bunbury to
call a meeting of the natives, but they were
jealous and suspicious. They could make
out Mr. Bush, who wanted some of the
chiefs to come aboard H.M.s. Herald. The
cause of their suspicions was that the brig
Elizabeth, Captain Stewart, had visited
Akaroa three years before to procure flax

and pigs, when Rauparaha's people, who
were on board, massacred all who visited
the ship. The natives in consequence of
this tragedy, refused to go aboard of H. M.s.
Herald Major Bunbury wanted to create
confidence in the native mind, and Mr.
Williams offered to remain as a hostage
while a chief went aboard. The natives
agreed, the chief went aboard and was well
treated, and shortly afterwards they all
went, getting plenty of flour and sugar,
which they voted to be kapai !
PHOTOGRAPHING THE SURVIVORS
BY THE TWO SHIPS.
On October 10, the jubilee of the arrival of
the Scottish pioneer settlers for Auckland
by the ship3 Duchess of Argyle and Jane
Gifford (October 9, 1842) was celebrated
with great enthusiasm, not only by the
settlers concerned, but old settlers gene
rally, as the occasion was observed for a re-
unionof all colonists of half-a- century's stand
ing and their relatives and friends. The" old
identities" had a big innings and were very
much in evidence, and were so satisfied of
their importance for that day that they
would scarcely speak to anybody who was
not a jubilee colonist. It was "a prood
day" for the Duchess of Argyles and Jane
Giffords, and the crowds followed them
about as if they were the Pilgrim Fathers,
which indeed they are. The jubilee cele
bration was in every way a magnifi
cent success. There was not a single hitch,
nor a single " incident" to mar the pleasant
recollections of the historic scene, thanks
to the forethought and organising capa
city of the hon. secretary, Mr. J. J.
Craig. Nature, which had been profuse
of her tears on Sunday, dried them up
on Monday, and gave the jubilee colonists
"Queen's weather," in order that the photo
graphic groups taken by Mr. Hanna might
prove the complete success they are. A word
of praise is due to Mr. Adam Brock, convener
of the decoration committee, for his unique
floral designs, and he spent two days at the
Choral Hall on his labour of love.
AN INTERESTING RE-UNION.
At half-past three o'clock in the after
noon a, gathering of the survivors by the
Duchess of Argyle and Jane Gifford, and
also of old colonists of 50 years' standing
andover, took place at the Choral Hall, it
having been arranged by the committee
that Mr. J. R. Hanna, the well-known
photographer, should photograph the as
semblage as a group in the first instance,
and the survivors by the two ships, in
another group, afterwards. Long before
the hour appointed knots of aged men and
women might be seen wending their
way to the trysting-place, and a crowd
of nearly a thousand people gathered
to witness the photographing operations
As soon as possible the old colonists were
arranged in a group of about 200 to 250
and Mr. Hanna took two or three plates'
and got a capital photograph. ]n this
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M.L.C., 1823 ; and the oldest native-born
European male in the city of Auckland,
Mr. C. B. Stone. Another gentleman dis
puted the pride of place, but Mr. Stone
was able to show that he was born
on March 25, 1841, and his rival in
December. Furthermore, when he proved
that Dr. J. Logan Campbell had been
present professionally at his birth, and
knew all about it, the other man threw up
the sponge. The oldest native-born woman
in the city of Auckland was also present,
Mrs. J. Slator (nee Swanson), daughter of
Mr. John Swanson, builder, born March 11,
1841. The oldest woman in the group
was Mrs. McLachlan (87), but Mrs. Donald
McNaughton, of Mount Eden, was the
oldest woman on the ground (90), being
driven down in a carriage in which she
remained, to witness the scene. She has
five children living, 25 grandchildren, and
21 great grandchildren. Some of the
settlers who had known Governor Hobson
were there. Mr. Alex. Thomas Harris, who
met him in Sydney, and Mr. McQuade who
came down with him in the Westminstsr
to Auckland. Williams, who pulled along
side of H. N. Warner in the gig race at the
first regatta (18th September, 1840) was to
the fore. " Tam," of the Duchess of Argyle,
came up as blooming as on the fortieth anni
versary ; and another Duchess who met
him (an undertaker) asked him if he
" wasna' gaun to dee ?" He replied that he
wanted to have as little to do with him as
possible on business matters, and quite
right too. " Peggy," of the Jane Gifford,
was there, who "couldna' please the bairn,
as she wasna' pleased hersel'." The
incident of Peggy's troubles was narrated
by the late Mr. Robert Graham, in his
speech as chairman at the previous
anniversary gathering of the old settlers,
to the amusement of those who knew
all the parties concerned. Many hearty
handshakings took place between the
old immigrants, many of whom had not
seen each other since the 40th anniversary,
ten years ago. An old lady was present at
the gathering who had come by one of the
ships, but who since has been absent from
Auckland. She recognised Dr. Campbell,
went up and shook hands with him, and
said, " Eh, Dr. Cawmell, I have nae seen
ye for fifty years !" Much has come and
gone in that time, but the fine Lowland
Scotch tongue was as fresh as ever. After
the chat was over, Mr. Hanna made up a
group of the survivors of the two ships,
who had formed the respective flanking
parties of the larger group. The following
were in the party : —
Jane Gifford :— Messrs. J. McLellan, David
Russell, Joseph Scott, Wm. Scott, Wishart,
W. Oliver, Joseph Craig,' W. Miller, Robert
Scott, Trevarthen, W. Jamieson, Thomas
Wylie, Wilson (Thames) ; Mesdames McLel
lan, Scott, Hill, Morrison, Griffiths, Hendry,
Somervell, J. Caradus, McClusky, J. Cul
pan, Carmichael, Pulham, Kennedy, A.
Gillan (Thames), Jamieson, Pollok, Caradus,
Cooper.

Duchess of Argyle :— Messrs. Jas Wallace,
Robert Laurie, W. L. Thorburn, H. Andrews,
H. Gollan, Jas. Robertson, Thos. Finlay, W.
Andrews, Ed. Clare, J. A. Wood, Jas. Clare,
P. McNair, J. Caradus ; Mesdames Donald,
Jackson, J. Winks, A. Craig, Bell, T.
Wylie, Robert Laurie, Scott, Lamb, Jas.
Moore, Cameron, A. Pollock, Wishart, P.
Robertson, Hannah, J. McEwin, Robert
Lang, W. Hume, McBrierty.
Mr. and Mrs. James Armstrong Wood
(of Christchurch), 79 and 81 respectively,
who came up from Canterbury to attend
the jubilee, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Thorburn,
and J. Sims represented four generations.
There are several others who can do so.
Mrs. Brierty (Mahurangi Heads) represented
five generations, having six children, 26
grand-children, 44 great-grand-children,
and two great-great-grand-children.
There was an amusing scene at the photo
graphing of this group through the dodges
of some people to get into the historic
assemblage and be photographed. Two
women were requested to retire from the
Jane Gifford section. They had come in
the Fifeshire, and thought it was all in the
family. A man got in among the Duchess
of Argyle section, and an old identity was
just explaining that he was an old Kawau
miner at the copper mine, and had no
business there, when, before they could get
him out of the sacred circle, Mr. Hanna
took his " shot" and made the "worker in
brass" immortal as a " Duchess." The
group does not by any means represent all
the survivors by the ship as a number were
unable to be present.
A third photographic group was taken of
descendants of colonists of 50 years' stand
ing, four generations being shown.
THE GATHERING IN THE CHORAL
HALL.
The Choral Hall was beautifully deco
rated for the occasion. Along the walls
were arches of nikau, alternated with stars
of cabbage tree, and surmounted by lilies.
The platform front and back had flanking
arches, and festoons composed of karaka
and pine leaves, lilies, and red and white
camellias. On the proper right of platform
was the legend "Duchess of Argyle," and
on the left " Jane Gifford," while in an
elegant device in centre overhead was the
word "Welcome." The bunting of the
ships Forfarshire (Captain Collingwood),
Timaru (Captain Fullarton), and Yolande
(Captain M. McDonald), added greatly to
the appearance of the hall. A Kau-
papa canoe, with paddle, the Waiomo,
the name of the first canoe used
by Dr. Campbell, was exhibited on the
platform by Mr. James Clare. It contained
a specimen of nikau berries in the bush,
and after flowering, when the seed is ripe.
A bunch of native flowers was in the prow
of the canoe, and the exhibit attracted
great interest.
A number of views of old Auckland were
shown. The Town Clerk (Mr. P. A.
Philips), Mr. G. M. Main, and Mr. G. Wilson
showed views or sketches of Auckland in
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1849, by W. Peebles, artist ; Mr. James
Edmiston, views of Auckland from
sketchesby Major Heaphy; Mr. Geo. Leaning,
an original sketch by Mr. Hogan, artist ;
There were also views of Fort-street and
St. Paul's Church, by Mrs. K. Burcher,
from sketches by Major Heaphy ; and a
favourite series, Commercial Bay, the
Crescent, and St. Paul's ; also, of the cele
brated "Intake," were exhibited by Mr.
W. S. Grahame. Bromide enlargements of
Hogan's "Auckland in 1853" were shown
by Mr. Theo. Fairs. Among the portraits
shown were those of Mr. Andrew Sinclair,
first Colonial Secretary ; Rev. J. Churton,
first Colonial Chaplain (shown by his son,
Mr. W. H. Churton) ; and of Messrs. G.
Graham, and G. S. Graham, Robert
liraham (a "Jane Gifford" and chairman
of the 40th anniversary), David Graham,
and Joseph Craig, long associated with
Auckland. Captain Cook's chart of New
Zealand, made in H.M.s Endeavour (dated
1816), was exhibited by Mr. M. H. Wynyard,
solicitor. In the evening the Choral Hall was
densely crowded, over twelve hundred
ladies and gentlemen being present. On
the platform were seated those of the old
settlers who are still amongst us, with their
descendants even unto the fourth genera
tion, and a mo3t interesting spectacle they
presented. We shall never see such a
gathering of old pioneer colonists again,
and in that respect it is historic.
The passengers by the Duchess of
Argyle wore red and white rosettes
(their old colours) and the Jane Gifford
similarly those hitherto worn by them (blue
and white rosettes). Old colonists generally,
rosettes of red, white, and blue. The
venerable pioneers in many instances
showed all too plainly the traces that
time had left behind, but in every face
there beamed the happiness begotten of old
memories revived, and the joy of beholding
so great and brilliant an assemblage to do
them every possible homage and honour.
One can understand the feeling of those
old settlers as they met on October 10 and
shook each other's hands, some for the first
time for a quarter of a century, and even a
longer period. It is the feeling of vete
rans after a long campaign. These men
(and women) had lived together, suffered
together, and some of their band had died
together ; and imbued with such a feeling,
one can understand how Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Wood — 79 and 81 years of age respectively
— came 600 miles (from Christchurch) to be
present on the gladsome occasion, with
the old "Duchesses" and "Jane Gif
fords." It is scarely to be wondered
at that the " auld bodies" on the plat
form, when they looked on the maze
of floral decorations, with the gaslight
treaming on them — a bit of fairy land—
and then thought of the little raupo whares
in Mechanics' Bay at the foot of the hill
which were their homes fifty years ago|
that they began to hum " This is no
My Ain Hoose, I Ken by the Big-
ing o't ! " The Maori canoe in front

(Waiomo), must have carried their memo
ries back to the time when the tide
laved the strand of that Bav (Waipapa)
—when the bay was lined with canoes from
end to end— their owners trading from
their tents, and kept jocund with song and
jest and dance. Change is written upon
all. The native hostelry is silent, dingy,
deserted, and no more will be seen there
the " lords, of the soil," or heard the sound
of native hymn, song, or dance, for the
children of Nature have faded away before
the hardier colonist. At every turn at
that Jubilee gathering one was brought face
to face with> tokens of the Olden Time.
In that hall were men who had not
grasped each other's hands for 40 years.
Three of those present, some of them
grandfathers, had been Sunday - school
scholars in the class of our first Colonial
Treasurer (Mr. Alexander Shepherd), while
one grandmother had been a Sunday-
school scholar of old St. Paul's, and taught
by Lady Grey. Nothing struck one so much
as the halesome look of tho old Scottish
matrons, " Duchesses" and " Giffords," and
their faces were pictures — large-framed,
broad - chested, fresh - coloured, muscular
women, fitting nursing mothers of a young
nation. The body of the hall and the gallery were
packed in every available corner, and yet
throughout the entire proceedings the most
admirable order was maintained. As soon
as the audience had got fairly settled, Dr.
J. Logan Campbell ascended the platform,
his advent being preceded by Piper Mac
rae playing " The Campbells are Comin',"
and after making obeisance to the congre
gated multitude opened the evening's pro
ceedings. The Chairman began by reading the
following telegrams of congratulation :—
From Sir George Grey and Mr. W. L.
Rees, M.H.R. : "Send you best wishes
and join in thanksgivings. Happiness
attend you and your children in the colony
you have founded." From Sir George
Grey, Dr. Pollen, Hon. P. Dignan, Hon.
,;-r. Swanson' Mr- Th°s- Thompson,
M.H.R., Mr. E. Hamlin, M.H.R., Hon. E.
Mitchelson, and Mr. W. F. Buckland,
M.H.K. : "Regret our inability to be
present at the jubilee of old colonists. Al-
though we cannot be with you in person,
we shall be in spirit. We congratulate the
promoters and wish the meetino- every
<<TTu ,Fr?m tho Hon- R- J- Seddon :
On behalf of the Government I desire to
extend best wishes for the success of the
old colonists' gathering, and have to ex
press regret that Parliamentary duties
precluded the possibility of any Minister
being present to say a kindly word in recog
nition of the great services rendered tq
the colony by the grand old pioneers
of fifty years ago " The following letter
from the Governor's private secretary was
read:-" I am directed by His Excellency
the Governor to acknowledge reopint- n(
your letter of 19th September, enclosing
tickets for the gathering of old toloZl!
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will not be in Auckland on the 10th October."
From Sir Walter Buller (Wellington) : " As
a New Zealander (Hokianga) over 50 years
of age, I desire to offer congratulations
to your jubilee celebrations." From
Mr. Wm. Mason (Duuedin) : " Thanks
for invitation. I regret much not being
present at your re-union, being one of
Auckland's first settlers. Accept my con
gratulations. I rejoice to see Auckland
maintaining her position as a leading com
mercial centre." The Chairman stated
that Father Walter McDonald had also
expressed regret at not being able to
be present that evening, and letters to
the same effect were received on behalf
of Mrs. Frank Lawry, Messrs. F. G.
Gleeson, and J. Forsyth (of Greymouth),
the Hon. Mr. Cadman, Mr. Heywood
Crispe (Mauku), and Mrs. Ford (82 years
of age, and the widow of the late Dr. Ford,
Russell). The Chairman then delivered his open
ing address. He said : — We have as
sembled here to-night to celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of
tho first immigrants who landed on the
shores of the Waitemata in October, 1842,
from the good ships the Jane Clifford and
Duchess of Argyle. I have been asked
to preside as being a pioneer of a
still earlier date, and who witnessed
the birth of Auckland in 1840. It
was my lot to be living on the little
island of Motu Korea, now known under
the less euphonious name of Brown's Island,
for some months previous to the Govern
ment arriving and founding the infant
capital of New Zealand. 1 have, therefore,
been an eye-witness to its birth, seen it
arise from out the fern wilderness, and have
Hired to see the changes which two-and-
fifty years have brought about. How
great those changes have been can
only be realised by those who remember
the fern clad waste which then spread far
and wide around the spot where we are now-
assembled, and which has since been con
verted into the well paved and gas-lighted
streets of this city. How different in
deed to the day when the pioneer
settlers from the Clyde sailed into
Auckland Harbour. Then her shores
boasted neither charming villa nor smiling
farm homestead. Beautiful were her
shores then, when robed in only Nature's
vesture, and beautiful through all time her
shores will ever be. At that long-ago date,
high-water tide rippled on the beach where
now stands the Post Office. Some parts of
Queen -street still presented patches of
luxuriant flax swamps, and Shortland
Crescent was the great thoroughfare. It
was a thoroughfare winding along a narrow
path through high fern and tea-tree away
up a then very steep hill, passing the late
site of St. Paul's Church, and leading
away down the bay to the Government
offices and dwellings of the officials. When
the two vessels arrived from the Clyde
Auckland was still in a very primitive
state. We had not quite discarded the
tents and raupo huts in which we first

lived, and we were quite proud of the few
scattered weather-boarded houses which
began to mark out the lines of the streets.
As for the streets, these were literally in a
state of nature, and that state of nature in
wet weather was ankle deep at least in
mud. Pedestrians in those days — and
pedestrians we were all obliged to be — had
to be very wary how they bent their
steps, or they might come to grief.
There was a well-known figure amongst us
then ; in point of age he was the father of
the settlement, and had grown to be some
what shaky in the knees. The poor old
fellow every now and then did come to
grief, and we had on these occasions to give
him a helping hand to extricate him from
the mud holes in which he got bogged.
Hence, in course of time he became
known amongst us by the appropriate
soubriquet of "Old Stick in the Mud."
I can recall an incident, seeing a lady
and her daughter who wanted to cross
Shortland Crescent, standing critically
scrutinising the treacherous-looking mud,
where safest to make the venture. The old
lady proved the bolder of the two, and
made a dash at it — alas ! when she got
across she was minus a shoe ! I cannot
commend the young lady's conduct on see
ing the plight of her respected parent, for
she stood convulsed with laughter. It was
all very well for her, for she was still on her
own side cf the street with both her shoes on !
As illustrating the vicissitudes of this life
to which we are subject, I may tell you
that worthy lady within a short period pre
viously drove in her own carriage in
Liverpool, her husband a merchint prince
of that great city. Sudden and over
whelming losses overtook him, making it
too painful to live in the scene of his earlier
prosperity. Like a brave old man he took
heart of grace, and faced a new life in a
new land, and arriving amongst us, with
an admirable resignation accepted the
privations of those early days. I doubt not
that some of the grandchildren of my old
friend, now Ions' passed away, are listen
ing to me to-night. They have every reason
to hold his memory in proud remembrance.
I alluded to the loss of the shoe as
proving how much we required to mend our
ways, and it so happened that it was the
landing on our shores of the immigrants
from the Clyde that first enabled us to
begin. The simultaneous arrival of two
ship loads of settlers of course glutted our
limited capacity to* employ labour, so we
awoke to the first cry of "the unemployed.'
Then, as now, an appeal was made to the
Government to find work ; the appeal was
responded to, and picks and shovels were
served out from the Government store,
and a road party was set to work.
I dare say you would like to know the
value of a day's labour at that epoch. The
motto of the working man of to-day of eight
hours work, eight hours play, eight hours
sleep, eight shillings a day, was then still far
in the future — these were not eight-shilling
days ; no, it was only the modest sum of
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It was only lately that I read of a meeting
of the unemployed at Christchurch. The
spokesman indignantly upbraided the
Government for only offering, as he put it,
the miserable pittance of six shillings.
I see by my journal it was just a week
after the arrival of the vessels, on the
17th of October, and I well remember the
morning when the road party first com
menced operations in Shortland Crescent,
just opposite my firm's premises. What
with levelling down the opposite side,
which was away twenty feet up in the air,
and levelling up the lower side, our pre
mises got buried, so we had to put up a
second storey and enter at the old roof level.
I am glad to say that it was for a very
short time that our improvements were
carried on at the two-and-sixpence a day
rate. The new-comers soon found profit
able employment at their respective handi
crafts, and began to flourish. Of course
they had their struggles, their ups and
downs in life, but they faced these like
hard-headed Scotchmen which they were,
and ultimately reaped their reward. As a
body they had little cause ever to regret
they had left behind them " Caledonia
stern and wild," and pitched their camp in
this brighter and happier land, and they
and their descendants have reaped a
material prosperity which the old world
would have failed to bring them. That
land — "land of the mountain and the
flood" — dear as it is in old associations,
has its sombre side ; the sun shines but in
fitful rays at fitful times, ever struggling to
dispel the plooni. Here we have a bright
and beautiful sky ; here we have a genial
and inspiriting climate which makes life
an ever-existing pleasure. Surely I
may congratulate you, the children and
children's children represented here to
night, even to the fourth generation, that
your forefathers bade a last and long fare
well to their native land, thus changing
your destiny to this much brighter country,
and that your lot has been cast in pleasanter
places. The danger that lies in your path
is, that you may too easily acquire and in
dulge in those comforts and luxuries which
lead to enervated lives and ultimately to
deterioration of character. Be but true to
yourselves, and to the ancient traditions
of the land of your forefathers, and
a happy future is in store for you.
How different are these days in which
you live compared to those of half a cen
tury now buried in the past, which we are
commemorating ! Many of us survivors may
say that in those old bygone days we en
joyed a peaceful and quiet life you in vain
may seek. The marvellous inventions of
the telegraph and telephone, which almost
annihilate time and space, have changed all
things. We used to receive news from the
mother country sometimes nearly a year
old ; now you have the news of the
world given to you only twelve hours
old, in the morning papers. Methinks
the race of life has become too keen
— we are no longer content to say,
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil

thereof." We aim at discounting the
future, we want to live to-morrow be
fore to-morrow comes, and who shall
say that we are any the happier?
Great indeed are the changes which we
old identities have witnessed during the
passing away of the last half-century—
changes of a kind it is not likely it will
ever be your lot to look upon. For we have
seen a handful of the Saxon race land upon
a savage shore, have seen that shore re
claimed from the wilderness, and slowly
advance in civilisation until we have trans
planted almost every institution from the
mother country to the land of our adoption.
Indeed, without vain boast we may ask,
" Where, for a young city of the same
population as ours, can be seen what we can
show in the advanced civilisation of the
day ?" Witness our Free Library— no mean
building truly— our Elam Free School of
Art, our Art Galleries, and the wonderful
treasures there deposited ; our Museum ;
this Choral Hall, and other kindred
societies devoted to Apollo ; Masonic
Lodges grandly housed, Oddfellows' Halls,
Opera Houses, Working Men's Clubs,
Homes for the Destitute, proclaiming a.
Costley s munificence, who was one of us in
the early days. The blind, deaf, and dumb
cared for, places of worship of every de
nomination ; and last and most significant,
and coming to what is more intimately
associated with ourselves, look at the
palatial structure of the Auckland Savings
Bank, a monument of our industrial
savings, and where lies half a million of
money, the earnings of the working classes,
a fruitful store against the proverbial
rainy day, proving how generous has been
to them their new mother country. And
here, close at hand, sits the manager of
that institution, the son of a Duchess
of Argyle colonist, born in Auckland.
We have amongst us here to-night age
venerable in the lengthened span of over
90 years. Let some young person — say,
half a century old — just look forward to
forty more years of life, and tell us what
are the strange feelings such a prospect
engenders. I thought I had some claim to
be considered somewhat of a venerable
personage, but I feel dwarfed into a com
paratively juvenile insignificance, and pale
before the living record of five generations.
Truly we live in a prolific and marvel
lous country whose kindly climate enables
us to chronicle this night the fact that we
can in our own day look upon the living
representatives of five generations. You
will have seen in this dav's Herald
the startling announcement that one lady
in the ripeness of her years can count her
six children, twenty -six grandchildren,
forty-four great-grandchildren, and two
great-great-grandchildren. Why, one feels
lost in a labyrinth of generations. After
such a record who shall say we cannot
hold our own in this direction ? I
think we may challenge the world We
have at this jubilee gathering to-night,
in the full blush of life, the living
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see an old friend who landed from the
Duchess of Argyle, and who, like myself,
is now in the " sere and yellow leaf " of old
age, and I can see his great-grandchild and
many fellow great grandchildren, with
young and happy faces, the world all
before them — to us it is all in the past.
And now that the snow of age has
gathered on our heads, we may be well
content to take our last long rest when the
appointed day — now soon at hand— shall
come. The departed spirits of our old
fellow-workers who have already joined the
great majority, are beckoning us from the
other side of the great river to follow.
Truly all that we have gone through since
1840 appears like a strange dream, but a
dream which has the fascination of reality,
for have we pilgrim fathers not lived
through all the vicissitudes incident to the
first settlement of a new colony, watched
over its birth and foundation, stood by it
during all its early struggles and varying
fortunes, and taken our part in developing
the resources of the land of our adoption ?
And we, whom it has pleased God to
spare to this year of grace, are proud to
compare our city of to-day with what it
was in October, 1842. We have lived to
see the great fern wilderness reclaimed,
to have seen the infant settlement
unrobe itself of its first primitive garments
of brushwood and breakwind huts and
tents in which we were dwellers, and out
living its bush mask and wild appear
ance, enter on the path of progress.
And we have our reward, that to-day
we see that infant settlement, grown
into a city, proudly advancing along the
broadway of civilisation — a city yet des
tined to be one of the fairest in the world,
and to whose shores will be attracted deni
zens from many and far distant lands.
But time, tho' old is strong in flight, and years
wend swiftly by ;
And autumn's falling leaf proclaims, we old men
soon must die.
We'll lay us down and tranquilly give up life's
latest sigh,
Our work is done— we've had our day, you need
not pipe the eye
For the last poor old identities, all of the olden
time.
— (Long and continued cheering. )
The verses with which Dr. Campbell
concluded his speech are an adaptation of
the well-known song, " The Fine Old Eng
lish Gentleman," the air of which was
played during their recitation by Mr. A.
Toweey. The first musical item was a duet by Mr.
and Mrs. Archdale Tayler, who sang, " Ye
Banks and Braes" in capital style. Mrs.
Cooper followed with " Kathleen Mavour-
neen," and in her rendering thereof main
tained her high reputation as a vocalist.
In the fine baritone song, " The Bugler,"
by Pinsuti, Mr. W. H. George's voice was
heard to great advantage, and then came a
charming item — an amusing recitation by a
young girl. The name of the piece was
" A Modern Sermon," and in her rendering
of it Miss Pollock displayed such genuine
elocutionary talent that the encore with

which her efforts were rewarded was richly
deserved. At the close of the recitation
the Chairman said: "I told you in my
address that we could hold our own, and
this grandchild of one of the passengers by
the Duchess of Argyle proves it." Mrs. H.
F. Edger closed the first part of the pro
gramme with Hadyn's " My Mother Bids
Me," which was sung with pleasing effect.
An interval of fifteen minutes then took
place, during which musical selections
were played by the band, ander the
leadership of Mr. J. H. Phillpot,
and refreshments were served in an
anteroom to the old settlers, who occu
pied seats on the platform. This in
teresting and important function having
been duly performed, the second part of
the concert opened with the song, " The
Irish Emigrant," sung in excellent style,
and Mrs. Cooper again appeared, and won
the hearty appreciation of the audience by
an expressive rendering of " Comin' Thro'
the Rye."
Captain Daldy then addressed the meet
ing. He said that the many warm hand
shakings he had received that day from his
old friends — not only his old friends of the
Duchess of Argyle and the Jane Gifford, but
all his old friends — had left his brain in a
whirl, and he was afraid he would make a
mess of his address. He would, however,
try to say a few words, and to express the
hope that they would all enjoy themselves.
To the young people who had sprung from
the old stock he would also say a few
words. In the first place, he asked
his hearers to remember those who
had gone to the great majority — to
think not only of those they met that
night, but of the many they missed. He
had tried to remember those who came
with him in July, 1841— twenty-nine in
number. He only knew of one of those
originals now living in this colony, although
there might be one or two in distant coun
tries. And when they thought of those
who had gone they must also think of their
past deeds — deeds that set an example for
those who came after. It was to the old
colonists that the work was given — the
work of laying the foundation of this pro
vince ; and he thought the verdict that
night would be that they had done it well.
They had been assisted by the younger
generation, and were rejoiced that they
had built up a fair and flourishing portion
of New Zealand, a portion that could be
compared with any other without being
called upon to blush. Let them
think, again, of those who had gone
forth from amongst them, of the
young men who had gone to the old
country. How were they bearing their
part ? They were not disgracing their New
Zealand friends ; they were taking Uni
versity honours, honours in medicine, in
fact in everything they had taken up, they
had been a credit to the colony. In his ad
dress, Dr. Campbell had mentioned several
old institutions, but there was one which
he (Captain Daldy) would like the young
people to know of. When the early settlers

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came here, they brought with them the old
English notions, one of which was that
they must have stocks. They were set up
in Queen-street, and he had actually seen a
man sitting in them. But he felt that if
he was to begin to yarn about old times
and things, with so many old faces around
him, one night would not suffice him. He
could not help the mournful reflection
that there would be no more jubilees
for the great majority of them. He
exhorted the young to remember their
forefathers, and they would not go far
wrong. The old settlers had made mis
takes, and been guilty of follies, but after
all they had built a part of a nation of
which they need never be ashamed. (Ap
plause.) In science, in art, in literature,
in religion — most important of all— and in
productive labour they had accomplished
good work, and that great meeting gave
them credit for it. He hoped the young
people would try to learn more of the his
tory of old doings. If he were to tell them
of all the heroic deeds of the old colonists
he would speak for a long time — as an
instance he mentioned that one of the lady
passengers by the Duchess of Argyle had
been with her family three days on a raft
in the harbour. If the younger folks knew
what their fathers and mothers had gone
through to found the province, it would
invigorate them and stimulate them to
fresh exertions. He was glad to think
that the young men were doing their
best to develop the natural resources
of the colony and push it ahead.
He wished them God-speed, and hoped
they would stick to the country. If they
did so they would grow up men of good
physique, men capable of enduring, and
men who, like their fathers, would be able
to stand forward for their country if ever
the occasion should arise. He wished
them God-speed with all his heart, and his
heart had been refreshed that day by seeing
them all there, and being with them.
(Applause.) The concert was continued by Miss M.
Chapman, who played a pianoforte fantasia
on Scotch airs admirably. An extremely
humorous reading from " The Bailie,"
entitled " Jeemes Kay's Visit to Balmoral,"
was given by Mr. Edmiston in such a
manner as to provoke uproarious merriment.
Another interval for refreshments followed,
the band again enlivening the pause with
lively strains. The simple, yet pathetic and
tender, song "Auld Grannie" was splen
didly sung by Mr. D. Menzies, whose clear
and powerful voice was much admired.
The remaining items on the pro
gramme were speedily got through, but
proved as interesting and enjoyable as
those which preceded them. Three young
ladies and six gentlemen, adorned in High
land raiment, and all representatives of the
Caledonian Society, danced the ancient Reel
of Nine with such effect that they were
rapturously encored, and responded with
the Star Reel. The music for these dances
was stirringly rendered by Piper Macrae.

The song "Oh how Delightful," by Miss
Wilson, followed, the vocalist earning the
most hearty applause, a compliment that
was also bestowed upon Mr. Archdale Tay-
ler for his excellent singing of lne
Valiant Knight." A mirth-provoking
recitation, entitled "Pastor McKnock s
Address on Temperance," was given
by Mr. A. Smith, and it so highly
delighted the audience that he had
to respond to an encore and give
a second taste of his quality in the piece
known as " Pat's Love Letter." The con
cert concluded with the singing of " Auld
Lang Syne," Mr. D. Menzies and Mr. A.
Tait singing alternate verses, while the
whole audience joined in the refrain. The
whole of the musical part of the programme
was under the able direction of Mr. A.
Towsey. Mr. J. H. Phillpott was the
efficient leader of an excellent band, and
the accompaniments were played by Mrs.
Tayler and Mr. Towsey.
The refreshments which were so liberally
supplied during the evening did infinite
credit to the caterer, Mr. C. Canning,
and all minor arrangements were as
perfect as the crowded nature of the hall
would permit.
Half an hour having been spent in clear
ing the hall, a start was made with the
dancine, a large number of young people
and many of maturer years joining heartily
in the sport. As a preliminary Messrs.
Johnson and Simpson danced a sailor's
hornpipe, and then to the capital music of
the band the dance went merrily on. The
programme consisted of about a dozen
items, and thanks to the efforts of the
courteous M.C.'s — Messrs. M. Niccol, W.
J. Rees, and T. Cotter — enjoyment and
harmony reigned supreme.
At an interval in the dances a pleasing
and unexpected incident occurred. Mr.
W. H. Jude, organist and composer, after
his recital at St. Patrick's Cathedral, ex
pressed a wish to see the gathering of old
colonists, and accompanied by Mr. William
Wildman and several friends, he went to
the Choral Hall. Mr. Jude was soon intro
duced, and was quietly watching the lively
proceedings on the floor when he was sud
denly met with a request to sine". Mr.
Malcolm Niccol, to the surprise of the
audience, announced that Mr. Jude was
present in the gathering, and he was so
pleased that he had consented to sing one
of his own songs "Home, Boys, Home."
After a few preliminary remarks Mr. Jude
sat down to the piano, and with great
heartiness and artistic skill, sang and
played the composition Mr. Niccol had
named. His courtesy was highly appre
ciated, and he was greeted with the hearti
est of applause.
The dancing ceased at an early hour
and the many smiling faces showed how
thoroughly it had been enjoyed. Thus
fittingly and happily was brought to a
close a most brilliant and successful eather-
ing, the celebration of an important event
in colonial history, and a demonstration

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which must vividly live in the memory of
every participant.
Among those present at the gathering
not otherwise mentioned, most of whom
were jubilee colonists, were His Worship
the Mayor (Mr. W. Crowther), P. A.
Philips (Town Clerk), Judge Munro,
Judge Wilson, Judge Smith, Monsignor
McDonald, Rev. Gideon Smales, Rev.
R. Sommerville, Drs. Purcbas, King, and
Kenderdine, Captain Runciman, Captain
Farquhar, Capt. J. Geddes, Messrs. James
Coates, W. S. Wilson, J. L. Wilson, J. A.
Langford, David Robertson, R. Hobbs,
Hume, F. D. Rich, James Wallace (Papa-
toitoi), Ralph Keesing, T. Tudehope,
R. Monk, J. Phillipps, F. Howard, E. M.
Williams, F. D. Cleghorn, H. White, Jas.
Westwood, J. R. Woods, T. J. Sansom,
James Dingle, Win. Edgecumbe, Arch.
Cochrane, John Landers, Jas. Archibald,
George Banks, Jos. Greenwood, H. N.
Warner, C. G. Gentil, James Speare, Martin
McDermott, William Kemp, Thomas
Churches, W. Culpan, James Finlay, P.
Cooper, E. Constable, J. Coldicutt, J. Call-
nan, John Harding, W. Greenwood, James
Baber, O. McGee, R. McGee, James
Hamilton, J. M. McLachlan, Joshua Robin
son, J. Gordon, J. Lye, Aitcheson Oliver,
W. Miller, William Oliver, George Cole,
W. H. Neale, H. C. Holman, C. J. Wilson,
D. Lundon, H. M. Jervis, G. S. Kissling,
Arch. Campbell, J. Mr.Quade, V. Blagrove,
J. W. Carr, J. M. Brigham, P. Robertson,
J. Wilson (Newmarket), J. Bain, W. Cole
man, Murchie, Grainger, J. Ogilvie, J.
Halyday, J. Stichbury, James Burtt, J.
Menzies, W. Sloane, W. Thome, Alex.
Thorne, W. R. Robinson, George Lang,
George Frazer, J. Frater, W. Graham
Thomas Pollock, J. Andrews, M. Casey,
C. J. Hill, Ernest Hill, Robt. Frater, sen.,
Robt. Frater, jun., H. King, P. L. Dignan,
W. Philcox, J. A. Duncan, E. Waters, J.
Henderson, G. A. Buttle. C. Dacre, J. A.
Cooper, J. Culpan, John Harding, L.
Ehrenfried, W. Gorrie, P. Darby, Thos.
Wylie, J. Winks. J. Wiseman, S. Joll, H.
Culpan, Motion, Leslie, W. VVinstone, G.
Winstone, J. Lye, F. Howard, H. Stich
bury, T. Cole, Thos. Craig.
The following were the committee of
management who carried the affair
through to a successful termination : — Dr.
J. L. Campbell, president ; Mr. J. J.
Craig, hon. sec ; Messrs. R. Cameron
and W. Culpan, hon. treasurers ; com
mittee, J. D. Culpan, A. Brock, J.
H. D. Coates, T. Cotter, Thomas Hen
derson, M. Niccol, Wilson, W. Jen
nings, J. Callnan, Joseph Craig, An
drews, Donald, James Edmiston, A. Smith,
James Caradus, James Clare, W. J. Rees,
John Wilson, C. Finlay, W. Craig,

Menzies, Patterson, J. Pollock, W. S. Wil
son, J. L. Wilson, W. Laurie, W. Scott, J.
Scott, J. Patterson, G. S. Graham, R.
Keesing, J. Jamieson, J. B. Russell, R.
Hellaby, W. Hellaby, E. W. Allison, J. H.
Witheford, H. Brett, H. Parker, J. Dacre,
J. Bain, W. Miller, J. S. Laurie, J. Bain,
J. Murchie, J. McLachlan, Frank Phillipps,
J. Gordon, C. Hesketh, E. Hesketh, P. A.
Philips, J. A. Lyle, C. S. George, W.
Coleman, A. Alison, W. H. Veale, J. M..
Brigham, A. Christian, J. M. Geddes, L.
Fleming, J. Robinson, Jas. Russell, D.
Robertson, J. C. Webster, A. Smith, A. J.
Sims, Theo. Cooper, W. S. Lyell, M. Mur
chie, W. S. Cochrane, P. Robertson, D. W.
Dingwall, G. Cole, R. Lester, Ward Baker,.
Jas. Craig, C. Buddie, C. B. Stone, J. B.
Graham, H. Parker, R. Poiter, Dr. Pur
chas, Dr. King, Capt. W. C. Daldy, Capt.
Hunt.
PERMANENT MEMORIAL OF THE-
JUBILEE GATHERING.
The roll of old colonists of over 50 years''
standing having been completed, the Go
vernment have communicated with Mr. J.
J. Craig, hon. sec, applying that they
may have a copy of the names and particu
lars on the parchment roll to be deposited
in the Free Public Library. Mr. Craig has
expressed his willingness to comply with
the request, and has suggested that a simi
lar roll of old colonists should be com
piled in the other three principal settle
ments — Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago,
as being of historic value and interest.
It has been decided that a memorial of
some kind or other shall be erected to
commemorate the late Jubilee gathering.
Probably it will take the form of an
obelisk, with the names of the ships which,
brought the pioneer settlers inscribed
thereon, and the permission of the city-
authorities solicited to erect it in the Albert
Park. Sir George Grey has expressed his
regret that his Parliamentary duties pre
vented his being present at the jubilee
gathering. He is in entire sympathy with
the movement to erect a memorial of
some kind to perpetuate the memory of
the early settlers, and has, unsought, for
warded a cheque for £10 to Mr. Craig, to-
be used ¦ in any way the committee may
think best. Other contributions are also-
forthcoming. Sir George also entirely ap
proves of the movement to found an Early
Colonists' and Natives' Association, towards
which some 200 names have been already-
forwarded. A supplementary shield is be
ing prepared by Mr. Hanna, photo
grapher, of old colonists who were unable
to be present and photographed on the
jubilee day, and it is intended that Sir
George Grey's portrait shall form the
central one Of the shield.

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THE CORNWALLIS SETTLEMENT.

THERE are still in Auckland pro
vince four survivors of the pas
sengers of the ship Brilliant, which
•arrived in the Manukau in October,
1841, bringing settlers for the Cornwallis
Settlement, Karangahape Bay. The
other day we visited one of these sur
vivors, Mrs. Daniel Coyle, of Newton, now
70 years of age, who gave us some particu
lars concerning the ship and settlement,
and which have been supplemented by
another old settler, now 87 years of age, a
passenger by the same vessel.
The Cornwallis Settlement was formed
in 1839, Captain Symonds (brother of the
late Captain J. J. Symonds, R.M.) and
-Captain Heale being interested in the
venture. It seems that Captain Heale,
while at the Bay of Islands in 1839, met a
few adventurous spirits, and decided to
form the company. The object was to
found a settlement, to be named Corn
wallis, after Lord Cornwallis, of Indian
fame. This settlement, together with a
steam sawmill, was to be located inside of
Puponga Point, on the shores of the Manu-
Icau. The plant arrived in the schooner
Osprey (of Tichborne fame) early in 1842,
and was worked for some time. A British
syndicate became interested in the enter
prise, of which more anon.
On the last day of 1840 the Brilliant
left the Tail of the Bank, Clyde, but
shortly afterwards had a narrow escape
of going on a lee shore at Rothesay
Bay. She subsequently put into the Cove
¦of Cork, where the captain, officers, and
most of the crew left — the cook and
apprentices alone remaining. Some of the
passengers also went, saying the ship
would never reach her destination. A
fresh captain — Captain Ritchie — came on
board, with fresh officers and crew, and the
Brilliant sailed for Melbourne as the first
port of call en route for New Zealand — ¦
having some passengers for that port. She
put into Sierra Leone, and landed the cook
there, through some trouble or other, and
also called at the Cape of Good Hope.
On reaching Melbourne she landed her
passengers for that port, as also the
steward, through another difficulty which
had arisen. The Brilliant then went to
Hobart Town, and from thence set sail
for the Manukau, arriving off Manukau
on the 27th October. She first sighted the
•coast off Raglan, and as Captain Ritchie
had no chart, but only a pencilled sketch of
the harbour, he had some difficulty in
getting into the Manukau. The lead was
kept going, and finding the water shoaling,
he anchored, and leaving the chief officer
in charge, proceeded with a boat's crew up
the harbour to examine it, going as far as
'Cornwallis, and then returned to the ship.
When the Brilliant was announced as

having reached the Heads, there was great
surprise at Cornwallis, as the vessel had
been given up for lost, having been about
ten months on the voyage. On the 29th
the vessel came up to Cornwallis and landed
her passengers and stores.
The passengers for New Zealand by the
Brilliant were Mr. and Mrs. Adams and
servant, Mr. and Mrs. Lawlor and two ser
vants, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, Mr. Lachlan
McLachlan and servant, Mr. and Mrs.
Macgregor and two children, Mr. and Mrs.
John Bain (now Mrs. Daniel Coyle), —
Forest, and Messrs. Holmes and McAlpine,
single men. Some of the passengers came
for the Cornwallis Company's service, and
others to settle ; among the former were
Messrs. Bain, Macgregor, and Holmes.
There were two births on the passage.
There are now only four survivors of those
who arrived by the Brilliant, so far as
known — Mr. and Mrs. Lawlor (of Thames),
Mrs. McLachlan, and Mrs. Daniel Coyle.
Captain Symonds had been making
preparations for the advent of the settlers,
and on arrival of the vessel did all he could,
but there were no buildings in readiness
for their reception, and his untimely
drowning on the 23rd November upset
everything. It arose in this way : Mr.
Hamlin, Church catechist, who lived near
Awitu, sent a note to the doctor of the ship
(Dr. Ellison), stating that Mrs. Hamlin was
ill, and asking for medical assistance. The
doctor was absent, and Captain Symonds,
with great humanity, went to the medicine
chest, took what he thought necessary,
and started in the long-boat with Mr.
Adams, young McAlpine, and two seamen
for Mr. Hamlin's place. Off Puponga
the boat was struck with a squall and
went down, young McAlpine being the
only one saved.
Mr. McLachlan took charge of affairs at
the infant settlement, after Captain
Symonds's death, and a vessel called the
Mary Hay was loaded up with kauri
timber until word could be sent home of
the altered state of things at the infant
settlement. Captain Heale came out from
home, having gone on a trip, and the saw
mill was started, but the settlers were
unable to make a living. Mr. and Mrs
Holmes went to Victoria, and Mr. and Mrs!
Henderson to Sydney.
*„Tw?,children were born at Cornwallis, to
Mrs. Macgregor and Mrs. Henderson, and
rtnl,VkJ°" Churton, of Auckland,
E Z\ 1 ?\\P aiD' *?nt over t0 Cornwallis
to christen them, and to marrv Mr Rome
the first officer of the Brillian t.to o„e o° t£
female domestics who came out in the
vessel. Mrs. Rome went home with her
husband, who afterwards served with r~„
tain W. C. Daldy, in the ship Betoain tie'
New Zealand trade. ' n tbs

JUBILEE RE- UNION OF OLD COLONISTS.

19

As showing the hardships of the early
settlers, Mrs. Coyle (then Mrs. Bain) states
that the men had to shore up the roof of
one of the whares where the women were
housed, in case it fell in on them. They
were sometimes so long without flour that
when bread was baked the children would
not eat it, having lost the taste of it, and
preferred humaras baked in hot ashes. As
Mr. Bain was an invalid, being paralysed,
it was necessary for Mrs. Bain to be the
bread-winner for husband and child. Being
unable to make a living at Cornwallis, she
went to the other side of the Manukau
harbour, to a trading station named Kawera,
and sewed for the Maoris, making round
abouts for the women. This did not prove
remunerative, and she went back to Corn
wallis and looked after the store, receiving
her remuneration on leaving in debentures.
In 1843 Mrs. Bain came across the isthmus,
and visited Auckland, finding the greater
part of the site of the present city lying in
fern, there only being a row of straggling
houses and stores on the beach. She
went back to the Manukau, and took
up her abode at Onehunga, (1844-5),
then a native trading station, to which the
Waikato natives, by way of Waiuku and
the Awaroa portage, came to Onehunga
and sold their produce, receiving European
goods in exchange. There was then no
idea of making a pensioner settlement.
The principal persons there were Mr.
Forbes, who kept an accommodation house ;
Mr. Ormsby, surveyor ; and Mr. McGee,
father of Mr. Owen McGee, who had a
blacksmith's shop. Mrs. Bain finally left
Onehunga and entered the household of the
Rev. Mr. Churton, ber husband, Mr. Bain,
dying in 1851. Among those who were
kind to her in her affliction were Dr.
Johnson, Colonial Surgeon ; Mr. Alex
ander Shepherd, Colonial Treasurer ; and
Captain Rough, Harbour - master. Mrs.
Bain subsequently married Mr. Daniel
Coyle, a passenger by the Jane Gifford, and
he died in 1870. She has one son by the
first husband and three sons and one
daughter by the second, one of the former
feeing in Australia. Mrs. Coyle is a hale,
'hearty woman for threescore and ten, and
has a wonderful recollection of the Olden
Time. In 1855 Mr. Henry Sewell, at one time
Attorney-General of the Colony, received a
power of attorney from home authorising
him to adjust the settlement of the land
in connection with the Cornwallis Settle
ment, and Mr. Wm. Aitken, land agent,
assisted him in so doing. Before a settle
ment could be fully completed Mr. Sewell

died, and for 30 years the land has re
mained " No Man's Land," but this did not
prevent the block from being gradually
denuded of timber.
The company which promoted the Corn
wallis Settlement Was known as the Manu
kau Land Association. The principal pro
moters were : Colonel John Campbell, of
Melfort, Scotland ; Mr. Robert Roy (of
Messrs. Roy and Wood, Writers to the
Signet, Edinburgh) — Mr. Wood was a
relative of Mr, Chapman, bookseller, of this
city ; Mr. D. S. Bockett, of Lincoln's Inn
(related to the Bocketts of the Waikato) ;
and Mr. Reid.of JLandesleigh Hall, Denbigh
shire, Wales. The block consisted of
25,000 acres, extending from Muddy Creek
almost to the West Coast, and was pur
chased from a missionary, Mr. Mitchell, in
New South Wales. The sale was repu
diated by the Maoris, who said the
tobacco they got in part payment was
so bad they could not use it (so it
must have been of a very indifferent
brand), and they pointed to the rotten
tobacco boxes lying on the beach as proof
of the accuracy of their statement. Subse
quently the Native Land Claims Court
awarded the Association 2500 acres. The
settlers paid £1 an acre for their sections,
but owing to the complications of title
never got, it is said, their grants, and sub
sequently had their claims settled by the
Government in land scrip, to be exercised
within twelve months. The death of
Governor Hobson, in the first instance, and
the death of Mr. Sewell, in the second, was
the cause of the misfortunes surrounding
the title to the block, when all was ready
for adjustment. A plan of the town
ship, surveyed near Puponga Point, makes
elaborate provision for a fine city, with
spacious streets and squares. There is
Brilliant Place, St. George's Square,
Great Queen-street, Little Queen-street,
Buccleuch Place, Portland-street, Athol
Place, and St. Andrew's Square, &c.
As one looks half-a-century afterwards at
the barren desolate spurs jutting into the
Manukau Harbour thus surveyed, one can
appreciate the faith and hopefulness of the
promoters of the Manukau Land Associa
tion. Efforts were made a few years ago to get
the Public Trustee to take charge of the
derelict block, but for some reason or
other he did not do so. It was to be sold
for rates, and the hour before the sale some
individual went and paid the rates for
personal reasons which were satisfactory to
himself, and so the derelict block still
remains " No Man's Land."

20

JUBILEE RE-UNION OF OLD COLONISTS.

TRIALS OF A PIONEER COLONIST.

7V T the late gathering of old colonists
AA there was present a very old
g-^ settler, Mr. Thomas Churches, of
Ellerslie. A year or two ago Mr.
and Mrs. Churches celebrated their
"golden wedding," an account of which
appeared in our columns. The following
brief narrative of the experiences of the
worthy couple in the olden times, will give
the general reader a fair Idea of early immi
gration, and what the immigrants had to
endure. In the beginning of 1842, Mr. and Mrs.
Churches, and some others, engaged with
a gentleman in the Old Country to leave
England for New Zealand to work on a
farm, which he proposed buying in Auck
land. Mr. Churches then resided about
165 miles from London, from which port
their vessel, the St. George, was to sail.
The discomfort of himself and family began
immediately on breaking up the home.
The nearest railway station was 25 miles
distant, which the men of the party reached
on foot, while the women, children, and
baggage travelled by an ordinary country
cart. At the railway station they found no
provision made for the journey to London,
some 140 miles, other than an open truck in
a luggage train, into which eleven persons
all told were put, all bound for New Zea
land. During the night's journey by rail,
it rained heavily for four hours, forcing
them to huddle together for warmth and
shelter under the one umbrella they
possessed, and as a frost subsequently set
in they reached Paddington station, Lon
don, wearing a very woe-begone appear
ance. Their baggage was conveyed to the vessel,
but they had to walk through the streets of
London to the docks, a guide accompanying
them. Their rustic appearance created
some amusement as the small procession
passed through street after street. They
halted awhile in the city to make some
final purchases, and of these Mr. Churches'
load consisted of a pick-axe, a three-legged
iron pot, six pairs boots and shoes, in
addition to his child three and a-half
years old. Mrs. Churches also carried
several parcels and a child sixteen months
old. Arrived on board the vessel, they found
little or no food, and no preparation for the
emigrants as to sleeping accommodation,
as no bedding had been put on board. In
a day or two things were put a bit ship
shape, and the St. George started on her
voyage. They had a long passage of five
and a-half months, calling at Rio de Jan

eiro (five days' stay) for supplies and fresh,
water. , , ,
On the 20th October, 1842, the anchor of
the St. George was dropped in the VS aite-
mata, only ten days after the pioneer ships
Duchess of Argyle and Jane Gifford, had
arrived. Although the St. George left
England before these vessels, the passage
was prolonged, otherwise she would have
been the pioneer ship. They passed a vessel
anchored in the Rangitoto Channel, the
Westminster, Mr. Churches thinks. Hav
ing landed, they pitched a bell-tent, twelve
feet in diameter, in Official Bay. It had to
accommodate a family of three, also Mr.
Churches, his wife, and two children.
After a month's stay in the tent, owing to
his wife's approaching accouchement, Mr.
Churches rented a room in a small, unlined
cottage near Chancery-street. For this
tenancy he paid seven shillings per week,
only occupying a small room some ten feet
square, and giving the right of egress and
ingress through their dormitory to another
family in the other apartment. His work
took him away at 6 a. m. One morning, leav
ing his wife in charge of anurse, and the chil
dren at home all right, he returned at night
to find his wife in great mental agony. The
nurse had been called away about nine
o'clock in the morning, and the children
had wandered away in the tea-tree scrub.
His wife had partaken of no food save some
cold gruel, and her anxiety was great lest
mishap had happened to the children, and
they had been killed by wild pigs.
A month afterwards he shifted to a small
house in the Manukau Road. As he could
not leave his work a lad was sent in the after
noon to guide Mrs. Churches and the family
to their new home. Night fell without any
appearance of them, and a search party
was got up, resulting in finding them in
what is now the Government Domain, lost,
and camping for the night.
At this time his employer bought a farm
near the Tamaki, and they removed there,
Their goods and chattels were conveyed by
water to Orakei Creek, and carried by hand
over the hills. To purchase bread he had
to walk six miles to the infant city of Auck
land, often after a hard day's work, and
on one occasion Mr. Churches got lost with
his load of provisions somewhere about the
present Ellerslie racecourse, reaching home
at daylight in the morning.
Though now in the sere and yellow leaf,
Mr. Churches has no cause to regret coming
to New Zealand. Mr. Churches has had a
healthy life, and a healthy family. His
descendants at present number 66.

JUBILEE RE-UNION OF OLD COLONISTS.

21

OLD AUCKLAND.

AN EPISODE IN EARLY COLONISATION.

¥R. E. M. WILLIAMS, in conver
sing with an Auckland Weekly
News representative over the
history of the Olden Time related the
following incident which took place in
1840 :—
" Not long after the signing of the Treaty
of Waitangi, Mr. Shortland wa3 nearly
involving the Government in hostilities.
On the 30th of March, 1840, a European
shepherd (Patrick Roony) in Mr. Williams'
employ had been murdered at Puketona by
a native (Kihi), who was discovered and
delivered up by the natives to the authorities
at Kororareka. Mr. Shortland was in the
act of a magisterial examination of the
charge against this man in the church, Mr.
H. T. Kemp acting as interpreter, and Mr.
Williams being present as one of the wit
nesses. During the examination, Haratua,
at the head of about three hundred natives
under arms, landed from Waitangi, and
made a rush towards the church, saluting
the Court with the war dance. He de
manded that the prisoner should be handed
over to them that they might dispatch him
at once, expressing his indignation that the
shepherd employed by his paheha should
have been so brutally murdered. This
demonstration was made in support of the
Government, though carried out in original
Maori style. Haratua had acted in Mr.
Williams' behalf from the first, for as soon
as he received intelligence of the murder
late in the evening, he with ten armed men
accompanied that gentleman to Puketona,
where, at midnight, and by torchlight the
party and Mr. Williams found the body of
the unfortunate man.
"Seeing the consternation produced
in the Church, Mr. Williams went out to
the natives, and told them that having
made a display of their zeal they had better
retire and leave the authorities to deal with
the prisoner. To this they at once agreed,
and drew off to their canoes at the lower
end of the beach, whither he accompanied
them. " While with them it became known,
much to the surprise of all, that Mr.
Shortland had sent to Okiato for the
troops. Mr. Williams suggested to the
natives the propriety of embarking, but
Haratua replied, ' What ! and be called
cowards. No, if he has sent for the
soldiers we will remain and see what he
intends to do ; we are three hundred here

to-day, but if a shot is fired, he will have to
meet thousands next week,'
" After much delay, the troops, about 80
or 100 in number, of the 80th Regiment,
commanded by Major Bunbury, were
landed and drawn up with loaded muskets
at the upper end of the beach. Mr. Wil
liams then went and asked Mr. Kemp to go
with him to wait upon Mr. Shortland and
explain that the natives had no hostile
intentions, having come over to make a
public display of their abhorrence of the
deed. Mr. Shortland, in a passion, replied,
' I will not be dictated to by anyone ; go
and tell those natives that if they do not
lay down their arms at once I will fire upon
them.' He returned to the natives, not
giving Mr. Shortland's message, but ex
plained in a quiet way that it was ignor
ance of Maori custom on his part that made
him act as he had done, that having seen the
soldiers land, they had better move off at
once, and he would remain with them till
they had embarked. The natives at once
complied, taking their arms with them.
Had a shot been fired, the whole of Nga-
puhi would have risen to avenge what they
would have called a kohuru on the part of
the Government.
" Kihi was committed for trial, but
sickened and died before the trial came

One of the old colonists who figures in the
photographic shield of Jubilee settlers, is
Mr. J. Lander, sen., the signalman at
Mount Victoria semaphore station. He
arrived in Auckland early in 1836, and
traded between Sydney and the Bay of
Plenty, etc., in the large yacht Aquila,
and owing to her being wrecked, joined the
Bchooner John Dunscombe for about two
years. Then, leaving the sea, he went to
Coromandel, where he was storeman for
Mr. White, afterwards becoming captain of
Mr. White's vessel, the Pumungu, bringing
Dr. Campbell, Messrs. Brown, JamesGeorge,
and others to Auckland to await the arrival
of the Herald, man-of-war, with Governor
Hobson, on or about January 26. 1840. Mr.
Lander was present at the hoisting of the
flag at Soldiers' Point. He also took great
interest in the regattas for 30 years, the first
one being in 1841. Mr, Lander was, during
Heke's war, one of the artillerists in Auck
land, also one of the first naval volunteers,
with Captain Hobbs, for which services he
was rewarded with a medal.

The Photographic Shields of Old Colonists are now ready, and can be obtained from
Mr. Hanna, Photographer, Queen Street, Auckland.

COPY

OF

Parcl^nQeQt IJecorxI
COMPILED BY J. J, CRAIG,
and Deposited in the FEEE PUBLIC LIBEAEY of AUCKLAND, N.Z ,
In Commemokation of the

HELD ON

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1892.

IN the

CMO^IJLIj MJlLL, SynrtoncL Street,

DR. J. LOGAN CAMPBELL PRESIDING.

In this Record are Inscribed the Names of Settlers who Arrived in New
Zealand prior to the year 1843.

24

JUBILEE RE-UNION OF OLD COLONISTS.

Name.

Ship,

Port of Arrival.

ALDRED, Rev. John
Allies, Mrs. M.
Alexander, William
Alison, Mrs.
AshworthAieken, Mr. W.
Augur, Robert
Andrew, Jno.
Anderson, J.
Anderson, Mrs. A. . .
Atkin, Win.
Archibald, Mrs., nee Hepburn
Aubrey, Mr. A.
Andrew, H.
Aubrey, C.
Andrew, Win.
Archibald, Mr. Jas.
Andrew, Robt.
Andrew, Miss Margaret
Andrew, Jas.
Austin, Mrs. Helen, nee Morgan
Asher, Mr. Asher
Adams, Mr. John
Anderson, Mr. Peter
Anderson, Mr. Thomas
Anderson, Mrs. Mary Ann . .
Adamson, Mrs. M. A., nee Anderson
Archibald, James
Alison, Mrs. Alexander, nee Cameron
Alison, Mr. Alexander
Ashton, Mrs, nee Didsbury . .
BRYCE, Mrs. John
Burgess, Mrs. Isaac Jas., nee Hammond
Bryce, John, senr.
Bryee, Hon. John . .
Bumby, Rev.
Brigham, John
Brigham, Mrs. John
Busby, James
Bush, Mrs., nee McGregor
Brown, Samuel
Boyd, Mrs. Wm. . .
Bonfield, Patrick
Bell, Mr. C. F.
Boylan, J. T.
Bell, Mrs. J.
Brown, Wm.
Bregman. Mrs.
Bacon, Wm.
Bell, Mrs. John
Bell, Mrs. Jas. , nee Gollan
Bell, Mr. R.
Black, Mr. Alex.
Black, Mrs. Alex.
Bunbury, Major
Beckham, Thonnas
Brown, William
Buckland, Alfred
Baber, Jas.
Baber, R. K.
Brown, W. P.
Blagrove, Mrs. V. . .
Blagrove, Valentine
Bernecker, Mrs. A. C. F., nee Carran
Bailey, Mrs. Charlotte
Banks, Geo.
Binns, Mrs.
Boyd, Mrs., nee Osborne
Bedlington, Mrs., nee Mair . .
Burke, Mrs., nee Power

5477
78
63
8071
53726253
50
54585962
64516973
53
52
92
505574
795157
64
5971
SO70
645768
715174
7773715654
52
75 74

Triton
Timandra

Tuscan
Tuscan, from London
Duchess of Argyle
William Bryant
Tuscan
WestminsterEssex Duchess of Argyle
EssexDuchess of Argyle
Duchess of Argyle

Isabella Anna
Ardline
Born Bay of Islands

Western Australia
Born Bay of Islands
Chelydra from Sydy. 8

28

10

IS

Born Auckland
Bengal Merchant
Lord Auckland
Bengal Merchant

Shamrock

BeeCliftonWestminster
AdelaideDuchess of Argyle
New Zealand
Tuscan
Duchess of Argyle

HeraldDuchess of Argyle
80th Regiment
Pusey Hall
Tuscan )i
80th Regiment
WestminsterEsperanzaBorn Bay of Islands
Delhi Harlequin
OrientalWestminster
Bombay

16

Bay of Islands
AucklandBay of Islands
Auckland

Bay of Islands

Auckland
Bay of Islands
Auckland
Bay of Islands
Auckland

Hokianga
TaranakiBay of Islands
Auckland jj
Bay of Islands
Auckland
Hokianga
TaranakiAucklandWellingtonAucklandWellingtonAuckland

Bay of Islands

Hokianga
Bay of Islands
Auckland

Wellington
NelsonWellingtonBay of Islands
Auckland
Bay of Islands
KaiparaAuckland j j
Bay of Islands
WellingtonBay of Islands
Auckland

1839
18421838
1840184218421836
18421839
18411842
1840
1842
1842 1842
18421840
18421842184218421842
18391839184018361842
18411841
1841 1841
1840
18421840
18401839
184118411S39
18391841
1812 1840
184118401842
18411840
18411842184218421840
1842
18401840 1836
184218421842
18401840
1838
18411840
1836 18401832
18321842

JUBILEE RE-UNION OF OLD COLONISTS.

25

Name.

0>
if

Ship.

Sg.3
<«« R

Port of Arrival.

73
68 57

Shamrook

28

Auckland

7

>>

57

Bom Tonga

8

Hokianga

50

Jane Gifford

Auckland

63

St. George

24

»>

53

Diana

15

tt

76

Bay of Islands
50
Born Auckland
5
Auckland
55
Palmyra to Sydney
>>
77
Coromandel
84
Hokianga
75
Achilles (Capt. Veal)
9
Bay of Islands
80
Orient to Sydney
15 8
18
»»
75
Auckland
65
Born Bay of Islands
Bay of Islands
62
Country Lass
)>
57
>»
>»
55
Born Bay of Islands
)>
71
Triton
60
Hokianga
62
Born Bay of Islands
17
Bay of Islands
55
j»
3
>»
53
tt
5
»>
52
tt
5
Bay of Islands
72
Born Bay of Islands
7
»»
50
Jane Gifford
10
Auckland
>>
10
>>
50
Duchess of Argyle
9
»»
80
London
18
80
Jane Gifford
13
Auckland
76
>»
13
tt
52
Born Bay of Islands
6
Bay of Islands
58
Coromandel, at
Adelaide, 1837
14
Auckland
72
Deborah
14
»»
53
Duchess of Argyle
2
tt
73
Jane Gifford
29
tt
67
tt
29
>!
66
Jane of Glasgow
11
It
52
London
1
Wellington
53
Shamrock
Auckland
75
Bellina
17
Bay of Islands
57
Clydersee
5
tt
58
Bengal Merchant
7
Wellington
60
Duchess of Argyle
12
tt
67
Bengal Merchant
12
tt
70
11
76
12
Auckland
58
Duke of Roxburgh
24
Wellington
63
6
Auckland
Duchess of Argyle
it
62
18
it
76
St. George
65
tt
George Fife
Wellington
50
Born on Jane Gifforc
Auckland
Porcupine
Bay of Islands
Herald
12
Auckland
80
Porcupine
8
12
Bay of Islands
56
Duchess of Argyle
Auckland
62
7
tt
52
Duchess of Argyle
8
tt
13
Wellington
52
Born Bay of Islands
tt
17
Auckland
51
Jane Gifford
Westminster
tt
tt
Barry, Mrs. Edward
Broadbent, Mrs.
Barchard, Mrs. A. . .
Blomfield, Mrs. Jas., nee Hobbs
Ballantyne, Mrs. J. . .
Burnand, G. J.
Bartley, Mrs. E., nee Hannken
Brown, Wm.
Brigham, Jno.
Baird, Mrs. S. C, nee Helen Goodf ellow
Bellingham, Mrs.
Beeson, Mr. George..
Burrows, Rev. Robert
Buller, Rev. James
Barry, Edward
Bedggood, Mrs. James, nee E. M. King
Bedggood, John Thos.
Bedggood, James Alfred
Bedggood, Martha Elizabeth
Buddie, Rev. Thos.
Baker, Mrs., nee Carron
Baker, Ebenezer . ,
Baker, Samuel Marsden
Baker, Rev. Fred. Thos.
Baker, Joseph Goodby
COLENSO, Rev. Wm 
Colenso, Rev. Mrs. W., nee Fairburn . .
Cromwell, James . . . . . ,
Cromwell, Mrs. James
Cameron, Richard
Connell, Mrs. W. ..
Carron, James
Carron, Mrs. James..
Carter, Mrs., nee Runciman
Craig, Mrs. Jos., nee Louisa Wood
Carrutb, Mrs.
Craig, Mrs. A., nee McPherson
Culpan, Wm., senr.
Culpan, Mrs. Wm.
Cleghorn, T. D.
Crawley, Mrs.
Caiman, John
Callnan, John, senr.
Carran, Daniel
Carruth, John
Cawkwell, Mrs.
Carruth, Robert
Cleghorn, Mrs. T. D.
Chadwick, John
Crew, Mrs., nee Mary A. Roberts
Chisholm, Adam . .
Crawford, Jas.
Clark, Archibald
Churches, Mrs. Thos.
Clifford, Sir Charles
Carson, Gilbert
Cleghorn, T.
Coates, James
Corbett, William
Cochrane, Samuel
Clare, Mr. S.
Codlin, George
Clare, Edward
Coleman, Edward
Cassidy, Mrs.
Constable, Edward
Craig, Josephus
Cooper, George , L
26

JUBILEE RE -UNION OF OLD COLONISTS.

ai

Port of Arrival.

Name.
fee
<
Ship.
6Sa
*<
Constable, Edward
Adelaide
Auckland
1840lb42
Cowan, Henry
76
Duchess of Argyle
52
j>
1842
Cowan, Mrs., nee Lochead
61
a
it
1841
Costley, Edward
Copeland, Mrs. Elizabeth, nee Allen . .
Coyle, Mrs. Daniel
Cooper, Mrs. William
786269 !
FifeshireBrilliant
36 17
tt
Nelson Auckland
1842 1841
1842
69 ] Jane Gifford
61
>>
1842
Cooper, Mr. Philip
66 1 Osprey
15
33 15
76 14
tt
1841
Craig, Mrs. Thomas
Caradus, J. . .
72 1
69
JN anion
Duchess of Argyle
itn
18421841
Craig, Thomas
Craig, Mr. Joseph, senr.
74 87
NankinJane Gifford
itn
1842 1842
Craig, Mr. Joseph, junr.
60
it
a
Craig, Mrs. Joseph, senr., nee Elizabeth
18 1
1842
Lachlan
Camphell, Dr. Jno. Logan
76 74
n
Lady Lilferd
it
Wellington
18401841
Cadman, Jerome
Carmichael, Mrs.
Clayton, Captain
Clare, Mrs. Jas.
Christopher, Hans
Caradus, Mrs. Jas.
537054 73
62
Jane Gifford
Duchess of Argyle
Jane Gifford
77
18
33
AucklandBay of Islands
Auckland Bay of Islands
Auckland
1842 1835
1842 1842 18421840
Christopher, Mrs.
67
18
it
Coles, G. L.
75
Annie of Arbroath
22
n
1842
Clendon, Mr. J. R.
70
6
Bay of Islands
1836
Chambers, Mrs.
55
Chelydra
8
a
1841
Clendon, Mrs.
65
6
a
1836
Cawkwell, Mrs., nee Wallace
59
Duchess of Argyle
15
Auckland
1842
Clendon, Mr.
Born Bay of Islands
Bay of Islands
1836
Christian, Mrs.
58
Diana
11
Auckland
1840
Clendon, Capt. J. R.
Fortitude
Bay of Islands
1834
Clarke, Mr. E.
64
Duchess of Argyle
18
Auckland
1842
Crummer, Mr.
62
23
tt
1840
Connor, R. . . . . . .
»»
1842
Cooke, Mr. Thos.
54
James
4
Bay of Islands
1840
Creighton, Francis
83
Nimrod
12
tt
1840
Clarke, Mr. Hopkin
60
Born Bay of Islands
3
>»
1832
Christian, Manual
58
Novelty
11
ii
1842
Cheeseman, Mrs. G. H.
Slains Castle
tt
1839
Caffler, Mr.
Carter, Mrs. B.
56
1842
Coxhead, Mrs., nee Muir
60
Duchess of Argyle
Auckland
1842
Conway, Mrs. Mary
76
»>
n
1842
Churton, Rev. John F.
Bolton
12
i»
1840
Coldicutt, Job
54
Osprey
8
»»
1842
Cochrane, Joseph
Delhi
8
Bay of Islands
1840
Cochrane, Archibald
1
1840
Cochrane, Mrs. Archibald
1
1840
Coldicutt, Mr. William
56
Osprey
Auckland
1842
Coldicutt, Mr. Charles
58
1F
1842
Champion, Mr. Wm. M.
74
St. George
28
> »
1842
Churton, Rev. J. F.
14
1840
Clark, Samuel Ludbrook
Born Bay of Islands
Bay of Islands
1824
Churches, Mr. Thomas
67
St. George
65
Auckland
1842
Curran, Mrs. James, nee Ripply . .
68
Duchess of Argyle
46
1842
Cassidy, Mrs., nee Nolan
50
Born at Auckland
a
1842
DUDLEY, Rev. Mrs.
53
Chelydra
9
Auckland
1841
Darling, Mrs.
50
Duchess of Argyle
11
1842
Durham, Mrs. Jno. . . . . . .
75
Tyne
9
1841
Du Moulin, J.P.
76
Currency Lass
1
1839
Donald, Mrs.
59
Duchess of Argyle
18
Auckland
1842
Davies, Jno. Patk.
54
Victoria
1
Bay of Islands
1841
Dennett, Mrs. Amelia
71
Fortuna of Melbourne
Auckland
18401839
Duder, Thomas
75
H.M.S. Buffalo
30
Mercury Bay
Day, Dr. . .
Didsbury, George . . . .
74
Coromandel
Bay of Islands
18361836184018421840
Du Moulin, Mrs. J.P.
Westminster
1
"
Dingwall, Mrs. A. . .
Dilworth, Jas.
8678
Jane Gifford
Bengal Planter
2
Auckland Bay of Islandi
JUBILEE RE -UNION OF OLD COLONISTS.

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Name.

bo
•4

Ship.

-I?AM a

Port of Arrival.

2 >

Darby, Mrs. P., nee Harkins. .

57

Anna Watson

11

Auokland

1840

Dignan, Hon. P., M.L.C.

76

Sophia Pate

20

it

1841

Deacon, Mrs.

67

Slains Castle

25

it

1841

Deacon, Mr.

65

it

25

tt

1841

Dixon, Mrs. Captain

Canterbury

1840

Derrom, Jas.

76

Thyne

4

1842
Daldy, Captain W. C.
75
Shamrock
25
Auckland
1841
Dignan, Hon. Mrs. P.
Thyne
>j
1841
Duncan, R.J.
69
Indemnity
6
Wellington
1842
Dalton, Mrs. T.
58
Jane Gifford
14
Auckland
1842
Doughty, Mrs.
60
Oriental
11
n
1840
Davies, Mrs., nee Williams
73
Brampton
23
tt
1823
Dingle, Jas.
75
Slains Castle
20
n
1841
Deason, Mrs.
52
1842
Darragh, Mr. G. . .
76
Jane Gifford
31
Auckland
1842
Davies, Mr. William
71
Governor McQuarrie
Bay of Islands
1824
Davis, Mrs. , nee King
74
Born Bay of Islands
3
j»
1818
Davis, Mr. William. .
71
Brothers
ti
1824
Dacre, Captain Ranulph
7
tt
1822
Dingwall, Mr. Alex. . . . ,
84
Herald
2
Auckland
1840
De Thiery, Baron
16
Bay of Islands
DeThiery, Richard..
8
tt
1837
De Thiery, George
53
2
it
1837
ELIOTT, George Elliot
75
Porteniaf rom Sydney
40
Dunedin
1840
England, Mr. Jno.
58
Elizabeth
Bay of Islands
1838
England, Mrs. Jos.
78
it
22
n
1838
Edge, Mrs. Geo.
62
Jane Gifford
48
Auckland
1842
Eastern, Jas.
51
Born Auckland
n
1841
Easton, G. . .
74
Blenheim
9
Wellington
1840
Easton, Mrs. G.
74
it
9
n
1840
Enabling, John
72
St. George
39
it
1842
Embling, Mrs. John
72
ti
39
it
1842
Edgerley, John
80
Tyne
12
Auckland
1830
Edmonds, Mrs. Louisa, nee Makepeace
59
Caroline Watson
27
n
1840
Edmonds, Mr. Wm.
62
Elizabeth from Sydn'y
Bay of Islands
1834
Edmonds, Mr. Hy.
60
jj
it
1834
Edmonds, Mrs. Alfred, nee Makepeace
61
Caroline, of Hobart
4
Auckland
1840
Edgecumbe, Wm.
83
Amelia Thompson
5
New Plymouth
1841
Edmonds, Alfred S. . .
58
Elizabeth
S
Bay of Islands
1834
Edmonds, John Tucker
56
Born Bay of Islands
5
j»
1836
Edmonds, Arthur
66
Elizabeth
14
it
1834
Ellis, Mr. William
78
Cheviot
11
tt
1836
Eckford, Thomas
76
ti
1840
FITZHERBERT, Sir W. . .
Lady Leigh
Wellington
1841
Fox, Lady Wm., nee Halcomhe
76
George Fife
ti
1842
Fox, Sir William . .
80
it
it
1842
Fairburn, Richard
73
Born Bay of Islands
13
Bay of Islands
1819
Firth, Mrs. J. C. nee Williams
55
Louisa Campbell
12
jj
1842
Fairburn, Jno.
68
Born Bay of Islands
11
tt
1824
Flatt, Mr. Jno.
87
Blackbird
26
ti
1834
Fairburn, Edwin
68
Born Bay of Islands
18
ti
1827
Fitzpatrick, Mr.
72
Jane Gifford
8
Auckland
1842
Fitzpatrick, Mrs.
it
n
1842
Finlay, Thos.
78
Duchess of Argyle
18
n
1842
Finlay, Mrs. Thos.
76
»>
18
ii
1842
Finlay, Mr. Jas.
54
a
6
a
1842
Fielder, Robt. S. . .
66
Nimrod
8
Bay of Islands
1841
Froude, Mrs., nee White
53
Westminster
9
Auckland
1840
Finlay, Jno.
64
Duchess of Argyle
6
ti
1842
Finlay, Mrs. Jno.
63
j>
6
n
1842
Flinn, William
58
Nimrod
27
Hokianga
1838
Flinn, Peter
55
jj
»j
1838
Flinn, Mrs. , nee Truman
55
Little Ariel
27
Kaipara
1839
GORDON, Mrs. Wm.
73
Westminster
1
Bay of Islands
1840
Gordon, William
90
n
1
it
1840
George, James
74
Pumunga
6
Auckland
1840
Gilfillan, Mrs. Henry, nee Davies
54
Westminster
12
Bay of Islands
1841
28

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Name.

6
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Gollan, Mrs. Henry. .

Duchess of Argyle

Auckland

1842

George, Elizabeth

78

Louisa Campbell

17

jj

1842

Graham, Mrs. Rebecca

68

1842
Greenwood, William
85
Slains Castle
70
Sydney
1841
Griffiths, Mr.
Jane Gifford
Auckland
1842
Gordon, Jno.
63
Westminster
5
j j
1840
Gorrie, Mr. William
52
Born Bay of Islands
Bay of Islands
1840
Gittos, Benjamin . ,
James
Auckland
1840
Gittos, Rev. William
63
,,
10
1840
Gittos, Rev. Mrs., nee Hobbs
62
Born New Zealand
10
1830
Garty, Mrs.
58
Martha
4
Bay of Islands
1839
Gorrie, Dinah
1840
Gentil, C. G.
67
Lloyds
13
Nelson
1840
Gibson, J . G.
58
Jane Gifford
Auckland
1842
Gleeson, Mrs. T. . .
73
Antilla
51
1841
Goodfellow, Hugh
52
Palmyra
j j
1840
Gleeson, Mr. F. G. . .
52
Antilla
13
"
1841
Graham, Mr. G. S. . .
55
Peskenge Conge
1839
Graham, W. A.
55
Born Auckland
1841
Graham, Mr. Robert
73
Jane Gifford
15
1842
Gimbel, Mrs.
80
20
"
Graham, W. S.
78
1840
George, Mrs.
61
Louisa Campbell
Auckland
1842
Graham, David
58
1840
Gimbel, G. F.
*
1
jj
1842
Graham, George
Gun brig Victoria
33
j j
Bay of Islands
1839
Gollan, Mary
Duchess of Argyle
17
Auckland
1842
Grant, William
73
Oriental
Wellington
1840
HAMMOND, Edward
60
6
Nelson
1837
Hammond, Mrs. Edward, nee Menary. .
58
6
Auckland
1837
HoUis, Mrs. William, nee Agnes Graham
60
Olympus
27
WellingtonBay of Islands
1840
Hodgson, Mrs. Joseph, nee Prowse
Hobbs, Rev.
72
83
Duke of Marlborough
Brampton
6066
1840
1823
Henderson, Thomas
Harkins, James
8063
Anna Watson
85
Wellington Bay of Islands
1840 1840
Hunt, Mr. Francis
89
From Australia
1829
Hay, Mr. M. . . . . . \
Hillj Mrs., nee Muir
76
53
London
Duchess of Argyle
j j
WellingtonAuckland
18401842
HiD, Mr. J.
55
Jane Gifford
10
1842
Hogg, Mrs. , nee Thorpe
57
Justine
1
j»
Coromandel
1839
Hendry, James Thos.
50
Annan dale
6
Wellin °"ton
1842
Higgins, Mrs., nee Hancock. .
55
Bellina
21
Auckland
1842
Hobbs, Edward Gyles
Hammond, David
53
Born Hokianga
Lord Auckland
8
HokiangaNelson
18391842
Hawkes, Mr. Ben.
Hawkes, Mrs. Ben.
7877
Louisa Campbell
L6
16
Auckland
1842
Hawkes, Mr. James
57
jj
jj
1842
Hawkes, Mr. Tom.
56
j»
>•
1842
Home, Mrs., nee Elizabeth Lodge
Harkins, P. K. . . . . \\
Haliday, James
Hay den, Mrs., nee Melville ..
57
62
j j
Aurora
Anna Watson
1911
jj
WellingtonBay of Islands
184218401840
Auckland
1842
Hobson, Captain, R.N.
Holman, Mrs.
76
Herald
Auckland
18401840
Hamlin, E.
9
Bay of Islands
1840
Harding, Mr. Jno.
73
Berman
45 12
Auckland
1842
Henderson, Hon. Thos.
74
London
j j
1842
Hobson, William
j j
1840
Hutchinson, Mrs.
1
j j
1840
Hobson, Mrs.
j j
1842
Holmes, Mr. Peter . . . . "
54
Bee
1
jj
1840
Hopkins, Charles
Hutchinson, Mr.
50
Born Auckland
12
j j
j j
18391842
Hume, William
Hunter, William
68
76
Duchess of Argyle
24
>j
j»
18421842
Hume, Mrs. William
Harper, Mrs. Jno., nee Jeffrey
Hill, Mrs. Jno.
Hickson, Mrs., nee Fairburn . .
58747560
Duchess of Argyle
EssexJane Gifford
Born Bay of Islands
15
2457
53 18
Taranaki Auckland
Bay of Islands
18411842
18421842 1832
JUBILEE RE -UNION OF OLD COLONISTS.

29

Name.

tag
<

Ship.

Sl|; Port of Arrival.
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Hanson, Thos. . . ;

Active

240

Bay of Islands

1815

Hanson, Mrs.

240

1815
Hobbs, Richard
59
Hokianga
Auckland
1833
Hannah, Mrs.
74
Duchess of Argyle
53
jj
1842
Holman, Mrs.
80
Exporter
9
j j
1840
Heath, Mrs. Patrick
89
Rover
11
j j
1836
Hughes, Mrs.
Bay of Islands
1840
Hancook, Thos.
85
Bellina
82
i j
1841
Hanoock, Jno.
68
jj
7
1841
Hodge, Jno.
1840
Hancock, Mrs. Thos.
85
Bellina
82
Bay of Islands
1841
Hodgsop, Mr. S.
72
Earl Stanhope
68
Auckland
1840
Hooker, Mrs. Hope, nee Greewood
66
1842
Harris, Alexander Thos.
67
Westminster
20
Auckland
1840
Hallimore, Thos. Cotton
82
Louisa Campbell
13
jj
1842
Howard, F. W.
62
Antilla
6
Wellington
1841
Howard, Mrs. W. L.
88
jj
64
j j
1841
Howard, Alfred George
60
jj
17
jj
1841
Heather, Arthur
60
Born Auckland
7
Auckland
1842
Harker, Mrs.
74
Albert
50
Taranaki
1841
Horn, Mrs. Harriet..
87
London
1
Nelson
1842
Horn, Mr . .
60
jj
jj
1842
Harp, Mr. James
79
Victoria
33
Bay of Islands
1840
Harp, Mrs. James, nee Lucy Dunne . .
74
jj
33
j j
1840
Hodge, Mr. Robert Paul
60
Born Jane Gifford
Auckland
1842
Hart, John
53
Chelydra
7
Bay of Islands
1841
INKSTER, Mrs 
62
London
10
Wellington
1840
Inkster, Mrs.
50
Born Auckland
10
Auckland
1842
JAGGER, Mrs. S., nee Hancock
Joll, Samuel
60
Timandra
29
Taranaki
1842
Jackson, Mrs. D., nee Sims
Duchess of Argyle
Auckland
1842
Jamieson, William
Jane Gifford
30
1842
Jamieson, Mrs. William , .
j j
30
1842
Jarret
75
j j
11
1842
Jervis, H. M.
72
London
21
1840
Jackson, Mrs.
70
Jane Gifford
7
1842
Jackson, Mr. Thos.
From Australia
13
1841
Jackson, Mrs. Thos.
jj
13
1841
Kinder, Mr. John
55
Born New Zealand
Bay of Islands
1837
Koeford, Mrs. H. L., nee Flynn
57
Nimrod
5
Hokianga
1838
Kescel, Mr. Abraham
86
Essex
84
Taranaki
1842
Kennedy, Mrs. A., nee Sairs
74
Jane Gifford
12
Auckland
1842
Kemp, Mrs. William, nee Spikeman . .
58
Born Whangaroa
20
Whangaroa
1834
Kemp, John
50
Born Auckland
4
Auckland
1842
Kissling, G. S.
51
Louisa Campbell
7
j j
1842
Kemp, Thos.
57
Bellina
12
1841
Keven, Mrs. Thos.
70
Diana
21
1839
Keven, Thomas
72
Shamrock
21
1841
Kennedy, A. McK.
75
Earl Durham
12
jj
1839
Kenderdine, Mrs., nee Preece
56
Born Thames
10
Thames
1836
Kennedy, Mrs. A. McK.
74
Jane Gifford
12
Auckland
1842
Kelts, Mrs. George, nee Forbes
63
Stains Castle
7
1841
Keegan, Mrs.
58
London
31
Wellington
1840
Kemp, William
62
Bellina
20
1842
Kunst, Mrs.
65
Ann of Arbroath
15
1842
Knox, Mrs.
75
,
1842
Keesing, Ralph
61
Union
9
jj
1842
Kemp, William
1833
Kirk, Mrs. J., nee Philip
59
Oriental
27
New Plymouth
1840
King, John
94
Active
6
Bay of Islands
1814
King, John Wheeler
76
Born Bay of Islands
j j
1816
King, William Spence
73
j j
4
jj
1819
Keir, Mrs. . . . .
76
Jane Gifford
Auckland
1842
King, Mrs. Philip Hanson, nee Fisk . ,
77
Falcon from Sydney
38
Bay of Islands
1840
Kirk, Mrs. Revd., nee Hobbs
64
Born Bay of Islands
jj
1828
Keane, Mrs, nee Hancock
Kelly, John
75
12
Bay of Islands
1839
Kelly, Mrs., nee Fitzpatrick
55
Jane Gifford
4
Auckland
1842
Kilgour, Mr. Thomas
63
u
13
jj
1842
30 JUBILEE RE-UNION

OF OLD COLONISTS.

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bo
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Ship.

•8%* P

Port of Arrival.

O to
ID >

LAWRY, Rev. Mrs. H. H. , nee Forsaitl

1

1842
Landers, Mrs. John, nee Berry
63
Rectus
45
Bay of Islands
1839
Lamb, Peter
53
Duchess of Argyle
7
Auckland
1842
Langford, Mrs.
74
Aurora
43
jj
1840
Landers, John
81
Cutter Acquilla
45
jj
1836
Langford
77
Aurora
43
,,
1840
Lawrence, Mr. H. J.
58
Osprey
j j
1842
Lawford, Mrs. E. J., nee Williams
67
Blenheim
36
Taranaki
1842
Lawlor, H. C.
77
Brilliant
25
Manukau
1841
Lye, Jas.
65
William Byron
20
Taranaki
1841
Lawlor, Mrs. H. C. . .
75
Brilliant
25
Manukau
1841
Laurie, Robert
63
Duchess of Argyle
14
Auckland
1842
Lundon, Mrs., nee Oakes
1840
Laurie, Mrs. Robert, nee Alison
51
Duchess of Argyle
14
Auckland
1842
Lamb, Mrs. Peter
63
jj
7
jj
1842
Lynch, Mrs. Daniel
72
Shamrock
j j
1841
Lowe, Mrs. , nee Margaret Craig
67
Jane Gifford
8
u
1842
Leathart, Robert Alexander
50
Born Kawhia
21
jj
1842
Letheridge, Mrs., nee Hannah Hanson
78
Born Bay of Islands
10
Bay of Islands
1815
(first white woman born in N.Z.)
Laxon, Mrs., nee McNaughton
60
Westminster
10
jj
1840
Lynch, Mr. Daniel
Auckland
1841
Laing, R. . .
jj
1842
Letheridge, Mr.
10
Bay of Islands
1826
McLEAN, Sir Donald
New Plymouth
1842
McElwain, John
80
Herald
Auckland
1840
McVay, Mrs. John, nee Deuchar
69
Shamrock
6
1841
McGechie, Mrs. John
66
Bengal Merchant
18
Wellington
1840
McGechie, John
74
18
1840
Mackay, Hugh
72
Shamrock
17
Auckland
1841
Mackay, Mr. Alexander
79
Gustine
24
1839
McShea, Mrs.
56
Duchess of Argyle
11
1842
Mcintosh, Charles Hunter
83
Westminster
8
Bay of Islands
1840
McLeod, Robert
84
Duchess of Argyle
25
Auckland
1842
MoDermott, M.
52
Born Bay of Islands
13
Bay of Islands
1841
McLellan, Mrs.
74
Jane Gifford
74
Auckland
1842
McKenzie, Hugh
55
j j
11
1842
McBrierty, Mrs. Rose
78
j j
78
1842
McAlpine, Mrs. Jane
62
Himalaya
20
jj
1842
McEwen, Mrs. J. . .
66
Duchess of Argyle
38
1842
McQuade, Mrs.
51
u
4
1842
McNair, Peter
81
jj
26
1842
McNaughton, Mrs.
90
Westminster
45
1840
McLachlan, Mrs.
87
Brilliant
2
1841
Mcintosh, Mrs.
58
Duchess of Argyle
8
18*42
McGee, 0. Curran
54
Westminster
12
Bay of Islands
1840
McKerras, Benjamin
61
Bellina
7
Auckland
1841
McLiver, Mrs.
68
Jane Gifford
17
1842
McKerras, Jas.
60
Bellina
1841
McPherson, Mrs.
80
Duchess of Argyle
37
1842
McLennan, Robert
84
Christina
25
1839
MoCulsky, Mrs. K. . .
68
Jane Gifford
1842
McArthur, Peter
83
Duchess of Argyle
2
1842
McQuoid, Jno. . „
80
Westminster
30
Bay of Islands
1840
McLennan, Jas.
62
Jane Gifford
5
Auckland
1842
McGee, Richard
55
Westminster
10
Bay of Islands
1840
McLachlan, J. M. . .
50
Born Cornwallis
Manukau
1842
McBrierly, William
73
Jane Gifford
16
Auckland
1842
McNaughton, Miss
50
Born Auckland
18421842
McLaughlin, Mrs.
70
Duchess of Argyle
8
jj
McLeod, Mrs. R. . .
McGregor, John
7058
jj
Bee
20
» j
Kaipara
18421839
McGregor, Duncan
56
j j
1839184218401842184218421840
1835 1842
McNair, Archibald
55
Duchess of Argyle
4
Auckland
MoLachlan, Mr. A. C.
McLachlan, Mrs. A. C, nee Neismith. .
6450
BlenheimDuchess of Argyle
99
Wellington Auckland
McDonald, Alex.
63
8
McLarnon, Mrs. nee Hawkes
54
Louisa Campbell
13
j j
McNauphton, Donald
52
Westminster
4
j j
Bay of Islands
Monk, Richard
59
Frances Speight
7
Hokianga Auckland
Maddox, Mrs. C, nee Campbell
51
Jane Gifford
13
JUBILEE RE- UNION OF OLD COLONISTS.

31

Name.

Ship.

Port of Arrival.

a £
|2"G

May, Mrs. Jos.
Martin, Mr. Antonio
Martin, Mrs. Antonio
Morison, Mrs. John
Millar, J. . .
Marks, Mrs. M. J. . .
Mahoney, Mrs, nee Craig
Munro, Daniel
Main, Mrs. G. M. , nee Gittos
Munro, Judge H. A. H. •
Mudford, Mrs.
Mills, Mrs. Ephraim
Muir, A. , senr.
Monaghan, Mrs.
Martin, Mrs. E., nee White
Mason, Mr.
Matthews, Mrs. , nee Amelia Wall
Moore, Mrs. Margaret
Moore, Captain F. G.
Millar, William
Marshall, Mr. Alex.
Mumford, Mrs.
Maunsell, Archdeacon
Macky, Jas.
Macky, Mrs. Jas.
Moore, Mrs. Jas.
Marshall, Mrs., nee Elizabeth McKenzie
Mills, Mrs. E., nee Tapper
Murphy, Mrs. Ann, nee Davis
Muir, Mrs. John, nee Flatt
Muir, John
Morris, John
Morgan, Mrs., nee Austin
Moon, Mrs. , nee McGregor
Montgomery, Mrs. W. B., nee Pilkington
Muir, Alexander
Muir, Robert
Mair, Mr. Robert
Macky, Mrs. Wm., nee Anne Goodfellow
Mitchelson, Mr.
Mitchelson, Mrs.
NOLAN, John
Nolan, Mrs. John
Nolan, Patrick
Nolan, Julia
Nicholson, Angus
Niccol, Mrs. Henry
Nelson, Mrs. , nee Ryan
Nash, Mrs. Maria
Newman, Mrs. Jos. . . :
Newman, Mrs. J. H. , nee Lydia Robinson
Nelson, Miss
Nathan, David
Nichols, William
OLIVARES, Valentine
Outhwaite, Mrs.
Osborne, Mrs. T. . .
Oliver, Mrs. William
Oliver, Atcheson
Oliver, Mrs. Jean
Osborne, Mrs. J.
Oakes, Mrs. Honora
Oakes, Thos.
Otto, Andrew
Oliver, Mrs., nee Shaw
O'Rorke, Lady, nee Shepherd
Oliver, Mrs. J ., nee McConochie

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Name.

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Ship.

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Port of Arrival.

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PETTIT, Mrs., nee Hart

58

Chelydra

14

Auckland

1841

Partington, Mrs.

75

Supply

IS

jj

1842

Paterson, Jno.

87

Duchess of Argyle

75

jj

1842

Probert, Mrs. Jno., nee Froude

93

1840

Pollard, Alfred

51

Gertrude

11

Auckland

1841

Proctor, Mrs., nee Edwards

54

Born Bay of Islands

6

Bay of Islands

1838

Phillips, Mrs. John, nee White

58

10
Auckland
1835
Philp, Mr. W.
53
Oriental
1
New Plymouth
1840
Paton, Mr. Thos.
77
Westminster
12
Bay of Islands
1840
Philp, Mr. R.
61
Oriental
New Plymouth
1840
Pulham, Mrs.
58
Jane Gifford
29
Auckland
1842
Parker, Mrs. Mary Ann
j j
1842
Pollock, Mrs. A.
78
Duchess of Argyle
37
>j
1842
Porter, Wm. Field
62
Brig Porter
3
j j
1841
Pollen, Dr. ..
79
Brig Martha
13
Bay of Islands
1839
Pennal, Mrs.
72
1842
Pollock, Thos.
52
Born at Auckland
Auckland
1840
Philson, Dr. T. M. . .
13
i j
1841
Porter, Mrs. W. J. . .
76
Adelaide
23
j j
1840
Porter, Mr. W. J. . .
73
Bellina
23
jj
1841
Powley, Mr.
67
18
j j
1842
Preece, James
65
8
Bay of Islands
1836
Preeee, C. . .
78
Coromandel
1839
Potter, William
65
7
Auckland
1841
QUINN, Mrs. R. . .
59
Jane Gifford
3
Auckland
1842
Quigley, Mrs. , nee Stephenson
72
Aurora
51
Wellington
1840
ROBINSON, Mrs. M. A.
63
Louisa Campbell
Auckland
1842
Rattray, William
59
4
j j
1842
Rowe, Mrs. Frank
53
Chelydra
25
j j
1840
Ryan, Mrs. Michael. .
67
London
26
Wellington
1840
Russell, Jas.
50
Born at Auckland
6
Auckland
1842
Rogers, Mrs. Thos.
Duchess of Argyle
jj
1842
Robertson, Mrs. Jno., nee Hart
61
Chelydra
17
1841
Robinson, Caleb
81
Louisa Campbell
17
j j
1842
Robinson, Ebenezer Isaac
54
j j
9
jj
1842
Robinson, W. M. . .
58
j j
3
j j
1842
Robinson, W. R. . .
56
j j
6
1842
Robinson, Mrs.
85
j j
18
1842
Runciman, Jno. . . . . . . i
65
Nimrod
Bay of Islands
1840
Robinson, Caleb Joshua
54
Louisa Campbell
Auckland
1842
Robinson, Mrs. Caleb
83
j j
17
1842
Rough, Captain
1846
Runciman, Miss
50
Born Whangarei
Whangarei
1842
Rhodes, Mrs.
62
Nimrod
11
Auckland
1840
Renner, Mrs.
63
Fortuna from Sydney
13
Bay of Islands
1839
Russell, J. B.
56
Lady Lee
13
1839
Robertson, Mrs. Peter
79
Duchess of Argyle
15
Auckland
1842
Robertson, David
56
j?
6
1842
Ross, Mr. Jas.
74
1842
Russell, David
75
Jane Gifford
1842
Robinson, Joshua
82
Louisa Campbell
71
1842
Rich, Mrs. F. D., nee Margaret Forbes
56
Duchess of Argyle
1842
Robertson, Miss Christian
51
Born Auckland
1841
Robertson, Mr. John
87
Westminster
26
1840
Rogan, Judge Jno.
70
London
7
Taranaki
1841
Runciman, Jno.
56
Osprey
Bay of Islands
1840
Runciman, Jas.
63
Nimrod
64
1840
Rich, F. D.
64
Chelydra
10
"
1842
Robertson, Jas.
58
Duchess of Argyle
5
Auckland
1842
Ripley, John
56
j j
8
1842
Ripley, Thos. Gordon
87
jj
78
1842
Ripley, James
65
j j
7
1842
Ripley, Robert
52
j j
5
1842
Rust, John
90
From Australia
7
Bay of Islands
1836
SYMONDS, W. C. . .
77
Manukau
1836
Searancke, W. N. . .
72
Brougham
6
Wellington
1842
Smith, Mr. C. B. . .
52
Born Bay of Islands
Bay of Islands
1840
JUBILEE RE -UNION OF OLD COLONISTS.

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Name,

Ship.

Port of Arrival,

Smith, A. J.
Smith, Mrs., nee Anderson
Scott, Mr. J.
Stewart, Mrs. Andrew, nee Forsaith . .
Spicer, Mrs., »eePreece
Smith, P. J. L.
Sharp, W., senr.
Stables, Mrs., nee Wallaoe
Seccombe, Richard
Spencer, Rev. S. M. . .
Scott, Mrs. J., nee Gollan
Shepherd, Mrs.
Shepherd, Alex.
Scott, Mrs. Elizabeth
Somervell, Mr. Hendry
Somervell, Mrs. Hendry, nee Rae
Scott, W. G.
Shortland, Lieutenant
Slator, Mrs. Jas,
Scott, Mrs. J.
Sobtt, Isaac
Southgate, Jno.
Scott, Joseph
Scott, Captain Thos.
Scott, Geo.
Scott, George
Sims, Jno. Adams
Sinclair, Alex.
Sims, Mrs. Mary
Somerville, Mark
Sandall, Mrs. R. S. . .
Sims, James
Shea, Mrs. C.
Sansom, T. J.
Smales, Rev. Gideon
Scott, R. ..
Scott, Mr. John
Scott, Mrs. R.
Stichbury, Mrs. Chas.
Stichbury, Charles
Stafford, Mrs.
Stichbury, Henry
Smith, Mr. William
Stone, Captain James
Stone, C. B.
Stone, Mrs. C. J. . .
Scott, Mrs. Captain
Smithe, Mrs. Annie
Smith, Alfred
Smith, Mrs. Henry
Shipherd, Esther
Stokes, Mrs., nee Derrom
Stokes, Mr.
Smith, Thos. Henry.. . . ¦
Sayers, Elizabeth, nee Mrs. Kennedy .
Smith, Richard
Snodgrass, David
Snodgrass, Mrs. David, nee Anderson .
Stone, James Robert
Sharp, W. . .
Stone, Mrs. Robert
Symonds, Jas.
Stickley, J.
Stokes, Mr. J.
Symonds, J. ¦ ¦ •
Smith, Mrs. R., nee Lythgow
Sims, Alexander
Sims, Matthew
Shaw, Mr. Elihu
Shaw, Mr. John

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6bo
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r. ®

Shaw, Mr. Silas

58

Coromandel

13

Hokianga

1837

Shaw, Mr. William

52

Born Auckland

8

Auckland

1840

Shaw, Mrs. Silas, nee Bellingham

51

Born Hokianga

13

Hokianga

1840

Staunton, Mrs. Elizabeth, nee Flynn . .

60

14

jj

1842

Scott, Mr. William . .

54

Duchess of Argyle

6

Auckland

1842

TREVARTHEN, Mrs.

55

Jane Gifford

18

Auckland

1842

Taylor, Robert Cecil

55

Magnet

7

Bay of Islands

1839

Thorburn, W.

73

Duchess of Argyle

110

Auckland

1842

Thorburn, Mrs. W. . .

71

110

jj

1842

Thorp, W. Hampton

63

Justine

Coromandel

1839

Teague, Mrs.

64

Velocipede

49

1840
Tyler, Jas.
65
Boulton
34
1842
Tyler, Mrs. Jas.
63
Duchess of Argyle
34
Auckland
1842
Triphook
j j
1840
Tudehope, Thos.
51
Duchess of Argyle
7
jj
1842
Thomas, Mr.
79
Tyne
jj
1841
Thompson, Mrs.
58
1842
Thompson, Mrs. Rebecca
66
Tryphenia
36
1842
Taylor, Mrs. G. C. . .
1840
Tidmarsh, William
86
Louisa Campbell
Auckland
1842
Thome, Mr. William
67
St. George
17
j j
1842
Thorpe, John W. . .
56
Justine
4
Coromandel
1839
Thorpe, Edward J. . .
54
jj
jj
1839
Thorpe, Alfred J. . .
63
Born Coromandel
3
jj
1839
Taylor, Mr. Wm. Innes
70
Auckland
1842
Taylor, Allen Kerr
63
14
jj
1842
Thomas, George
65
Wellington
1840
VINCENT, Mrs. Geo., nee Walsh . .
56
Coromandel
3
Wellington
1839
Vause, Mrs., nee Philp
69
Oriental
50
New Plymouth
1840
WATERS, Mrs. Mary, nee McNaughton
62
Westminster
19
Bay of Islands
1840
Wilson, John Ralph
50
Born Auckland
1
Auckland
1842
Wilson, William Sampson
52
Born Bay of Islands
2
Bay of Islands
1840
Watt, W. H 
74
Planter
30
1840
Woodman, Mrs.
51
Blenheim
16
1842
Wood, J. R.
60
Westminster
Bay of Islands
1840
Wood, Jas. Armstrong
79
Coromandel
14
1841
Wallace, Arch.
52
Duchess of Argyle
7
Auckland
1842
Wood, Mrs. J. A., nee Sarah Watson . .
81
Coromandel
24
Bay of Islands
1841
Wall, Mrs. Eliza
73
Deborah
36
1840
White, Henry
55
Westminster
14
1840
Williamson, Mrs. Catherine
50
Born Auckland
4
1842
Wilson, Nathaniel
56
Duchess of Argyle
15
1842
Webb, Ann
88
Duke of Rocksburg
37
1839
Williams, Mrs. Ed., nee Davis
70
Governor McQuarrie
39
1824
Williams, Ed.
74
Brampton
39
1823
Whewell, Mrs.
60
Lady Lee
40
Auckland
1839
Wallis, Rev. J.
83
56
1834
White, Robert
55
Gertrude
Wellington
1841
Wilson, J. A.
64
Byron
14
Bay of Islands
1833
Williams, Mr. T. C.
67
Born Bay of Islands
35
1825
Williams, Mrs. W. L. C.
60
Louisa Campbell
5
Auckland
1842
Williams, Mrs. Capt. James
56
Born New Zealand
1836
Winks, Mrs. Jonathan, nee Robertson . .
54
Duchess of Argyle
7
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1842
Wood, Mrs. Eliza, nee Allen
57
Fifeshire
21
Nelson
1842
Wilson, Mrs. Jno.
68
Jane Gifford
24
Auckland
1842
Williams, Hon. Hy.
69
Born Bay of Islands
Bay of Islands
1823
Webster, W.
76
Bengal Merchant
17
Wellington
1840
Warren, Rev. John
Warren, Mrs. Rev. John
Webster, Mr. George
65
Jane Gifford
Auckland
1842
Webster, J.
1840
1827
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Williams, J.
65
Born New Zealand
14
Williams, H.
63
Wahnsley, Mrs. Charlotte
Wood, Mrs. J. R. . .
Warner, H. N.
8073
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Westminster Kate
26 18
Bay of Islands
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Williams, Arch. S. . .
70
Brampton
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Ship.

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Port of Arrival.

¦S-c

61

Byron

Auckland

1833

70

Hannah Watson

27

Kaipara

1840

52

Born New Zealand

1841

52

Louisa Campbell

15

1842
61
Duohess of Argyle
13
Auckland
1842
60
jj
1842
55
Sophia Pate
6
jj
1841
66
Chelydra
17
jj
1841
83
Sophia Pate
12
jj
1841
67
4
u
1841
65
jj
12
jj
Bay of Islands
18411840
76
Justine de Bordeaux
24
,,
1840
Chelydra
7
j
1840
75
Jupiter
8
j
1841
65
Margaret of Glasgow
26
j
1841
69
Coromandel
28
j
1839
78
Deborah
16
j
1840
68
Martha Ridgeway
45
,
1840
76
Shamrock
16
Auckland
1841
65
16
jj
1841
71
Slains Castle
17
jj
1841
60
London
5
jj
1842
75
7
jj
1839
51
Born Kaipara
Kaipara
1841
76
Jane Gifford
25
Auckland
1842
76
Duchess of Argyle
25
jj
1842
67
Anna Watson
7
j j
1841
52
Bengal Merchant
8
Wellington
1840
58
Timandra
100
Taranaki
1842
Westminster
Bay of Islands
1840
64
Chelydra
17
jj
1842
76
Anna Watson
27
jj
1840
62
Timandra
Taranaki
1842
69
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1842
66
1842
58
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1842
92
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1S42
85
6
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1842
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1840
64
Timandra
Taranaki
1842
56
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1842
52
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Auckland
1840
79
Buffalo
19
j j
1840
62
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15
jj
1840
Wilson, Captain E. J.
Wilson, Mrs. J.
Williams, Hy.
Williams, J. S.
Wallace, Jas.
Wilson, Jas.
Wilson, J. L.
Woodhouse Mrs.
Wilson, Mrs. W. C, nee Liston
Wilson, W. S.
Wilson, Wm. Chisholm
Watson, Mr. A.
Watson, John
Watson, Mrs. Ann
Webster, Jno.
Wallis, Mrs., nee Young
White, Mrs. Silas Angus
Wing, Mrs. Captain
Wright, Mrs. Wm., nee Brooks
Williamson, Mrs. Jno.
Williamson, John ..
Westwood, Mrs. Jas.
Walsh, Edward
Weston, Thomas
West, Mrs.
Wylie, Mr. Thos.
Wylie, Mrs. Thos.
Wilson, Mrs. , nee Mitchelson
Williams, Mrs. E. . .
Wills, James
Wills, T. J. # ..
Westwood, Mrs. Jas., nee Hart
Whitaker, Sir Frederick
Wills, Thos. Jno.
Wills, Albert Fredk.
Wills, Miss
Wills, James William
Wills, Mrs. B.
Wills, James
Williamson, Hon. James, M.L.C.
Wills, Maria
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