OTAGO SETTLEMENT.
EIGHTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. ARRIVAL OF THE JOHN WICKLIFFK. \ (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. The eighty-fifth anniversary of organised settlement of Otago was celebrated yesterday in warm weather. There is no longer any living representative of the passengers who arrived by the ship John Wickliffe, for, during the past twelve months the last survivor died. The John Wiekliffe was a wooden vessel ot only 662 tons, built in 1841 r and owned by John Sands, of Greenock, who was paid 2000 guineas for the charter. The passage money ranged from 3o to 10 o-uineas. She sailed from Gravesend on November 24, 1847, under the command of Bartholomew Daly, carrying 97 emigrants, headoX Dy Captain Cargjll. bue crossed the equator on January lo and dropped anchor within Tairoa Heads on March 22, 1848, moving up to Port Chalmers, oa i^iollowing.iLajS,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 13
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