NEW ZEALAND IN REVIEW- CENTENNIAL 1840-1940

Southland Times, Issue 23954, 21 October 1939, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND IN REVIEW- CENTENNIAL 1840-1940

HAWKES BAY WAS NAMED BY LIEUT. JAMES COOK WHO ARRIVED IN

THE BAY ON OCT. 13-1769..

EXTRACT FROM COOK'S JOURNAL t-TH/S BAY v

! HAVE NAMED HAWKES \ BAY IN HONOUR OF j

SIR EDWARD. FIRST Ji LORD OF THE

ADMIRALTY."#

SIR EDWARD HAWKEfuia lord hawke) . OKE OF THE GREAT ADMIRALS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. HE WON A ' BRILLIANT VICTORY OVER THE FRENCH FLEET. AT QUIBERON BAY IN 1759 DURING THE SEVEN . YEARS WARJHUS WARDING OFF A THREATENED' INVASKNI Of EHGLAND. BORN IN 1705 HE WAS . ELEVATED TO THE PEERAGE IN 17/6. DIED |7Bl.

THE FIRST PRINTING PRESS IN NEW ZEALAND.

A SMALL PRINTING PRESS WAS BROUGHT TO THE BAY OF ISLANDS FROM SYDNEY IN 1830 BY THE REV. W. YATE. ON THIS A CATECHISM AND A FEW ~

HYMNS WERE PRINTED. PRINTING WAS REALLY ESTABLISHED BY THE ' REV. WILLIAM COLENSO WHO ARRIVED WITH THE « CHURCH MISSION PRESS AT THE BAY OF ISLANDS ON DEC.3O-1834-, THE DIFFICULT TASK OF LANDING THE PRESS BEING ACCOMPLISHED ON JAN. 3-1835. The first work run off at paihia where the? PRESS WAS SET UP WAS A TRANSLATION INTO MAORI \ OF THE EPISTLESTO THE EPHESIANS AND THE PHIUPPIANS. '

A "STAN HOPE’’ PRINTING PRESS Ot 1820. THE PRESS USED BY COLENSO WAS A "STANHOPE" AND WAS PROBABLY LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM the MODEL SHOWN ABOVE.

R WILLIAM COLENSO LOF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. ;■ WAS 23 YEARS OF AGE WHEN HE ARRIVED IN NEW ZEALAND. . //E LATER BECAME THE FIRST MISSIONARY TO BE STATIONED IN HAWKES BAY; LANDING AT AHURIRI ON DEC. 30 1844. HE MADE JOURNEYS OF EXPIORATION TO WAHCAREMOANA AND OTHER PARTS AND WAS THE FIRST WHITE MANTO CROSS THE RUAHINE RANGES. ALSO FAMOUS AS A BOTANIST HE LIVED IN HAWKES BAY UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1899. |

the COS PAT RICKBUILT OF TEAK THIS SHIP y HAD VISITED NEW ZEALAND >

THE PREVIOUS YEAR, _ r

SAILING FROMA LONDON ON

MAR.2O-1873,-ARRIVING

lAT DUNEDIN JULY 6.(108 DAYS) •;

'PERIL AT SEA ENCOUNTERED BY EARLYEMIGRANTS. ON NOV.IMB74THE SHIP “COSPATRICK" (1.220 TONS. CAP! ELMSUEIN COMMAND) BOUND FOR AUCKLAND FROM ENGLAND CAUGHT FIRE WHEN IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN. OVER 400 EMIGRANTS MO5l OF WHOM WERE FARM LABOURERS WERE ON BOARD. THE SHIP SANK ON NOV. 19 AND ONE BOAT, AFTER IT HAD BEEN DRIFTING FOR 10 DAYS,WAS PICKED UP BY THE SHIP “BRITISH SCEPTRE'! ONLY 5 OF THE ORIGINAL 41 IN THE LIFEBOAT WERE ALIVE AND 2 OF THESE DIED ON BOARD THE RESCUE SHIP.

ONLY 3 SURVIVORS OF A TOTAL 0F473 I

THE SETTLEMENT OF INVERCARGILL WAS NAMED AFTER THE SUPERINTENDENT OF OTAGO.- WILLIAM CARGILL,ON THE SUGGESTION OF GOVERNOR THOMAS GORE BROWNE. THE SITE WAS SELECTED IN 1856 BYJTTHOMPSON THE FIRST SALE OF TOWN SECTIONS . TAKING PLACE IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

COMPILED AND I ILLUSTRATED BY~

HONJ.A.R.MENZIES OF MATAURA WHO WAS THE

FIRST SUPERINTENDENT

OF SOUTHLAND. MORE GENERALLY KNOWN AS DR.MENZIES

5 HE WAS ALSO A MEMBER

OF THE FIRST PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF SOUTHLAND.

WTtAY STREET, INVERCARGILL,IBS9. Southland separated from otago as a separate province ON MAR. 25-1861 BY PROCLAMATION, TAKING EFFECT ON APRIL I, AND • INVERCARGILL BECAME THE PROVINCIAL CAPITAL. AT THIS

TIME THE POPULATION OF THE PROVINCE WAS APPROXIMATELY 1,500 ABOUT 400 OF THESE BEING IN INVERCARGILL. ■. THE SOUTHLAND DISTRICT WAS PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS ‘MURIHIKU'.

James Berry