EARLY WELLINGTON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 108, 7 May 1912, Page 8

EARLY WELLINGTON.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — Tho article appearing in your Saturday's supplement entitled "i'ligrims Afoot" contains a small error which I should like to correct. It stated that for many years there was }aut one house at Oriental Bay,' called Poverty Hall, owned by Mr. Tupper. This should read Mr. Georgo Duppa, and his house was facetiously known as "Ca3tle Doleful." Mr. DuppaT arrived in the Oriental in 1840. Ho was a young man of Kent and very well connected, but did not remain long in the colony. He ■ brought out with him his house already built, only requiring to bo put together. His choice of a, dwelling placo was ljiuch vmndered at, as Oriental Bay then was completely dissevered from, the rest of Wellington, and he received much gratuitous commiseration and v baptismal name for his residence. He was, with Captain Edward Daniel, deputed by Colonel Wakofield ' in 1841 to explore Banks Peninsula, and choose a spot for the location of tho proposed new settlement of Nelson. They sailed in the ship Bailey, and Port Cooper was selected, but the matter was overruled by Captain Hobson, the Governor. Tho submerged rock off Point Jerningham was called tho Bailey Rock, no doubt discovered by this vessel. -I -trust that ero long a second, and furiaer instalments of thia pioneer's recollections will appear in your paper. — I am, etc., ', TT TTI

What is believed, to be a genuine relic of Captain Cook is, states the Gisborne correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, in the possession of a well-known resident of Waingake, who holds it as a treasured heirloom. It is an ancient axe. which, according to Maori tradition, was given by Captain Cook to an important Maori chieftain of the Mahia. Poninsn a in 1769. Many Natives were I'Ving al Mania, at tlip time, tlie tLrce leading, chieftains respectively being Whcnuarrli, Ktthutia, and Powhero. It in related that the latter, considering Captain Cuok to be merely the chief of a strange war party, deiiied to put him to death, but ■\va-. res- trained liv the other two nhi-sfs. To the- latter ('aptuiu Cook made a pie.'ent of an axe each, while to his wnuld-bo cNecut'oner ho handed some cabbage seeds. It is one of thebu .axe» that is claimed to ut* thb hi«toric family heirloom held by .t diij.ct dvs-ccndanl of \\'lienuann. "Dots jvui" liuiioin s-iiig well?" "I've uovci' hetu'd her. 1 ' "What I novor heard her *iii{»V" "Oh, uy— ting well."