PIONEER SURVEYORS. SURVIVORS AFTER FIFTY-FIVE YEARS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland, February 10.

Otago Witness, Issue 2242, 18 February 1897, Page 17

PIONEER SURVEYORS. SURVIVORS AFTER FIFTY-FIVE YEARS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland, February 10.

Yesterday was fche fltty-flfta anniversary of the arrival of the barque Brougham at Wellington on February 9, 184-2, with the New Zealand Company's surveying staff. The , party consisted of Mr 8. C. Boies (chief surveyor), Messrs H. S. Tiff en. R. Shepherd, P. Shepherd, A. Whitehead, Andrew Wylie.' with \ Mr P. N. Searancke (assistant surveyor), and Messrs H. Charlton, A. Wills, T. H. Smith, E. Norman, P. Hnnt, W. M. Soroggs, B. Jollii?, 'J. Tully, B. Nicholson, and A. J. .Allom ' (cadets). Most c£ these have dropped off one' by one. Mr H. S. Tiffon, of i Napier, passed away lust February or Marcb, and Messrs Jollie and Tully preceded him by v. year or two. Of these pioneers of the colony there are four known survivors — viz., Mi Nicholson (now Sir Richard Nicholson, of London, a well-known solicitor), ex-Judge Smith , (of Auckland;, Mr Searancke (of Hamilton, ' late resident magistrate there, and wow a i coroner for the district), and Mr A. J. Allom (who has recently returned from Tasmania to take up bis residence permanently in Auckland). Mr Allom was for many years well known as mining registrar and receiver of gold revenue ab the Thames and afterwards was connected with the Justice department, from whicL he retired in 188 Q. Mr Allom returned to EneLwd i in 1848, and in 1850 he was engaged (with Sir I Frederick Young and the late Mr Wm. Bowlor) in shipping off the first Canterbury colonists from London. He afterwards became Colonia! Secretary of Tobago, but jftsigning that office on account of ill health he returned to Auckland as manager of the Great Barrier Company in 1861. The three survivors of the party in New Zealand exchanged congratulations yes* terday on the fifty-fifth anniversary ol their arrival ia the colony.

A presentmtion was made at 'New Plymouth on Saturday to Mr O'Callaghair, olerk of tbo Magistrate's Court, who is promoted to Dunedin.