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Kotahi noa te tānga o te Victoria Times, ēngari he mea nui tonu; ko ia te tuarua o ngā pepa moata o Te Whanganui-a-Tara; he mea perehi ā-waituhi ēngari mō te perehi ā-reta, he mahere hoki o Te Whanganui-a-Tara kei tōna whārangi whakamutunga. He mea peita ā-ringa ki ētahi putanga, ēngari he rerekē tēnei nā.

Nā Thomas Bluett rāua ko Jacob Jones te Victoria Times i tā. Nā rāua rā i mua te tā perehi ā-waituhi mō te Nū Tīreni Kamupene, tae atu ana ki tētahi mahere o Pōneke e rongonuitia ana ko ia te perehi -waituhi tuatahi o Aotearoa. He whai pānga anō te Kamupene ki tērā atu o ngā nūpepa o Te Whanganui-ā-Tara, te New Zealand Gazette, he āhua mōrearea kē pea nō te whakataunga kia tāngia tētahi pepa anō. Ko ia pea te take i kore ai tēnei nūpepa e kitea anō. Ko tētahi take anō pea mō te oranga rangi tahi o te nūpepa nei, kāore i mau roa te hoatanga o Bluett rāua ko Jones. Nā Jones tōna whakakorenga i pānui ki te Kāhiti i te whakamutunga o te 1841.

Ka nuku a Bluett ki Tahimēnia. Mai i ngā pūrongo o te wā, ko tāna he whakahaere i tētahi kamupene perehi ā-waituhi i Hobart i te 1842. Kei ētahi pūranga puta noa i Ahitereiria ētahi tauira o āna mahi. Ka mate ia i Ingarangi i te 1846.