EARLY SHIPPING DAYS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17181, 26 October 1923, Page 10

EARLY SHIPPING DAYS.

VOYAGES FROM THE OLD COUNTRY. TA» OF THE EMIC" ANT SHIPS. Th# romance and some of the hardships of the early chlpnlnc days of Now Zealand are recalled in the series of articles now being* published in the “Star” relatlnar to the early shlpplnr days. Many people are interested in the subject, as there are still many old identities with ns, while thousands of cltlsean of the Dominion are j descended from the old stock which { braved the voyage# in the sailers of I the ’fifties, ’sixties and ’seventies. The artiole printed to-day consists of extracts from ths early flies. I ARRIVAL, OF THE ZEALANDIA. , (From the “ Lyttelton Times.” December 24. 1870 A i Arrived. December 23—Zealandia, shin. 1115 tons White, from London. Passengers— Cabin—Misses Biggs and Bradley, Mr and Mrs AYhincop, Captain and Mrs Row, Mr and Mrs Broadfoojfc, Messrs Somerville, LI. Chatteris. W. I C. Forrall, W. Pascoe, F. D. Saun- ' ders, AW W. Benn, S. Bonn, John : Benn, H. P. de Lapasture. Dr C. D. Batt. 1 Second Cabin.—Messrs Cholmondeley, AV. Thomson, E. M. Scott. G. Berryman. Mr and Mrs Suckling, Misses Annie and Emily Suckling, Walter Suckling, J. Suckling, William Suckling, Sophia Scott, Mr ard Mrs Berryman, Bessie C. Knowles, Harriet Medlej-, Mrs Carroll (matron). Government Immigrants. Families and Children— Farm Labourers.—John Bourne, wile and child ; Thomas Webb and wife, Kent; John Hardwick, wife and five children; Josiah Fell, wife and child; James Rainbow and wife, Bucks; j Henry Hicks and wife; Thomas Henwood and wife; James Mayn, wife and five children; William Johns, wife and five children ; George Arthur and wife, Cormvall; George \Vise, wife and child, Surrey ; J ames Harris, wife and child ; Samuel Gieen, wile and four children ; George Simpson, wife and four children, Yorkshire. | Ploughmen—Francis Brown. wife I and three children, Aberdeenshire; , John Simpson and -wife, oDnegal. i Labourers.—John Griffiths, wife and child, Derbyshire ; John Page, w ife and two children, Bucks. I Shepherd.—Lewis Willis and wife, Banffshire. j Carpenters.—Edward Evans, wife and child, Oxfordshire; Samuel F. Seager, wife and child, Middlesex. Millwright.—John Gilbert, wife and three children, Bucks. Smiths.—John Griffiths, jun., wife and child, Derbyshire; William Reed i and wife, Devonshire. Forgeman.—Thomas Cutler and wife, Staffordshire. Moulder.—Benjamin Davies anti wife, Derbyshire. Saddler.—James Borland, wife arm six children, Tyrone. Coachmaker—Sydney Cowbrick and wife, Middlesex. Single Men— Farm Labourers.—Thomas Hardwick, Henry J. Rainbow'. Bucks; Francis Brown, Aberdeenshire ; Chailes Gamble, Essex ; William Harris, James Moyle, William Moyle, William Richards, David Wotten, Cormvall; Peter Chick, Somersetshire.- John Corkerv. Davis Shea. John and William Leary, ■ Thomas Spilland, Kerry ; John Callaghan, Cork; Jame 6 Dermotfc, Armagh; Michael Seib, Wilhelm Airas, Peter Griebel, Bavarja ; John and Edward Morgans, Rchrd Evans. David Tudor Montgomeryshire; Matthew' and John Breeze, Norfolk.

T Ploughmen -Frederick Page, Kent, John Nott, Devonshire; Thamos Patton, Perthshire; Thomas Caldwell, Don donderry; Wm. Oalder, Banffshire; Roland Evans, Montgomeryshire. Gardener—George Power, Water ford. Labourers'—John Yates, Staffordshire ; Henry W. Johns, Cornwall: Samuel Seager, Middlesex ; Wm. Page, Bucks: Alfred Fourdrinier, Middlesex' Richard Josiah Osborn, Northampton ; Moses Nicolls, Gloucestershire; John Haeship, Cork ; George Canavan, Down ; Patrick Murphy, Cornelius Sullivan, Kerry. Shepherd—John Mill Munro, Rosshire. Engineer—Richard M’Nae, Kirkcudbrightshire. Boilermaker—Richard L. Norsman, Leisces te rsh i re. Coachman—George Huffey, Suffolk. Tinman—Alfred Hollobon. Sussex. Single Women— General Servants—Mary and Sarah Griffiths, Derbyshire; Rose Seager. Emma Pound, Caroline M. Fawkes’ Emily and Ameiia Dyer, Mary Jones, Jane Jones and two children,' Middlesex ; Jessie Brown, Aberdeenshire; Louisa E. Roberts, Bucks ; Mary Simpson, Donegal ; John Patton. Perthshire; Ann M’Nae, Jane Miller, Lanark sliire : Mary Joyce, Down ; Elizabeth Power, Waterford ; Maria Esseborti, Bavaria ; Mary Abbott . Bedfordshire , Ann Russell, Orkney ; Alexandra Robertson, Euphemia Corbet. Ronsßire Martha Nicholls, Emma Webb. JamHarris, Mary Horcombe, C’-ornwall Jane Hutchinson, Northumberlandshire: Helena Alders, Germany; Mar garet Murphy, Johanna Poll, Kerry, Matilda James, Cambridgeshire; Mar.y Ann Dick. Tyrone; Catherine Hough ton, Norfolk. Cooks—Eliza Cross, Norfolk ; Maria Beosley, Oxfordshire; Charlotte Simp Dairymaids—Sarah Brown, Abe. deenshire; Elizabeth Patton, Perthshire . Magdalena Girdex, Maria Griebel, Jacobine Gutel, Bavaria: Catherine and Ellen Leary, Kerry Flora and Margaret Campbell, Down - Housemaid—Catherine J. Forrest, Lancashire. Housekeeper—Scdina Stuart, Somei setshire. Nursemaids—Maggie Borland. Annie Christie, Tyrone. Sum niaryFann Labourers, forty-one; plough men, eight; gardener, one; labourers, thirteen ; shepherds, two: engin eer, one; forgeman, one; millwright, one ; moulder, one ; smiths, three ; carpenters, two; saddler, one; boilermaker. one; clerk, one: coachmaker, one; coachman, one: tinman, one. Single Women—General servants, thirty-three ; cooks, three ; dairywome.i. nine ; housemaid, one : housekeeper one; matron, one; nurses, two. .Male adults, eighty-two; ffeinaie adults, eighty-five ; male children, twenty ; fcmalo children, twenty-seven , infants, seven. Souls, 221, equal to 1901 statute adults -