| MATOAKA | |||||||||
| The MATOAKA left London on 17th September, 1864 and arrived in Auckland on Tuesday, | |||||||||
| 3rd January, 1865, under the command of Captain William C Barnett. | |||||||||
| Transcribed from the "Southern Cross" newspaper for Wednesday, 4th January, 1865. | |||||||||
| ARRIVAL OF THE MATOAKA, FROM LONDON - The clipper ship Matoaka arrived off the Heads yesterday afternoon, after a | |||||||||
| good passage of 93 days from the start. The Matoaka is a vessel of 1,323 tons one of George Seymour, Peacock, and Co's | |||||||||
| liners and is a fine specimen of a Brunswick-built clipper ship. She was formerly here in charge of Captain Stevens, but is | |||||||||
| now commanded by Captain William C. Barnett who has visited our waters on several occasions in the good ship Cresswell, | |||||||||
| and appears to have gained the confidence and esteem of all on board his ship. The Matoaka was last here in September | |||||||||
| 1859, coming up harbour with the unfortunate Tornado, out the same number of days from Liverpool direct. On that occasion | |||||||||
| she made the passage in about 100 days, including a stay of several days at Wellington. She has just been recleansed and | |||||||||
| is now on the first letter for twelve years. The Matoaka brings a full cargo of general merchandise, and an addition to our | |||||||||
| population of 441 souls, there being including crew 480 souls on board. It is not often a vessel with so large a number of | |||||||||
| immigrants on board enters our harbour in such a cleanly and well-ordered state and this fact is highly creditable to Captain | |||||||||
| Barnett and the medical officer in charge, Mr Jonas King, who has faithfully attended to the health of the passengers. The | |||||||||
| Matoaka took her departure from the Downs its on the 2nd September, with a westerly wind, and sent the pilot on shore on | |||||||||
| the 27th, taking her final leave off Start Point on the following day with a gentle easterly wind. On the 5th October the island | |||||||||
| of Porto Santo was sighted, and the wind being, S W had to tack across until passing Madena the wind still prevailing from | |||||||||
| W to S W until reaching latitude 20 N, the ship was compelled to pass to the eastward of Cape de Verde Islands. She then | |||||||||
| had the wind from N and N E for two days, and on the 19th October sighted a ship supposed to be the Light Brigade, in | |||||||||
| latitude 12 28 N latitude, 22 46 W longitude. On the 24th spoke the Light Brigade, twenty-six days out, which vessel reported | |||||||||
| that the ship to the N E was the Robert Henderson, 36 days from Glasgow, bound to Otago. On the 28th was still in company | |||||||||
| with the Light Brigade. The island of Trinidad was observed on the 3rd November, on which day the S E trades were lost, | |||||||||
| and on the 22nd of the same month the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope was made. A full rigged ship, supposed to be the | |||||||||
| Light Brigade, was here sighted, one being about 5 miles distant to the S W. [By reference to the report of the Light Brigade, | |||||||||
| we find that the two vessels must have kept very close together, as the Matoaka and Light Brigade both sighted the island of | |||||||||
| Trinidad on the 3rd November. There is but little doubt that the vessel which the Matoaka sighted off the Cape was the Light | |||||||||
| Brigade] after passing the Cape she had very light and variable weather, with the exception of one or two moderate gales, | |||||||||
| running down her easting to 50 S, and rounding the south of Van Diemen's Island, without sighting it, on the 84th day from the | |||||||||
| the Downs. The Three Kings were made on Sunday last at 11 am, and a fair wind brought her down coast. She will work up | |||||||||
| the harbour this morning, and her passengers will probably be landed tomorrow. The following is a list of the passengers - | |||||||||
| PASSENGERS | |||||||||
| AITCHINSON | William, Elizabeth, and Henry | ||||||||
| BATES | Reuben and Mary | ||||||||
| BELL | William, Sarah, Emma, Anne, and Sophia | ||||||||
| BENNETT | George and Lydia | ||||||||
| BILLING | John, Mary, Selina, and John H | ||||||||
| BILLING | Albert and Elizabeth | ||||||||
| BILLING | William | ||||||||
| BINTON | William, Harriett, Marshall, and Ada | ||||||||
| BLACKBURN | John and Rebecca Blackburn | ||||||||
| BLANCOME | Richard and Emma | ||||||||
| BOOKER | Richard, Elizabeth, and Henry | ||||||||
| BOOTH | Richard, Mary, Richard, Thomas, and John | ||||||||
| BOOTH | John | ||||||||
| BRAY | Charles and Mary | ||||||||
| BROWN | Sarah | ||||||||
| BUCKLEY | James, Annie, Mary, Anne, Cornelius, and James | ||||||||
| BURRELL | George | ||||||||
| BUSHELL | Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, and Elizabeth A | ||||||||
| CARDON | Thomas, Martha, Elizabeth, and John G. | ||||||||
| CASELEY | William, Mary, and Annie | ||||||||
| CASHON | Thomas and Juanna | ||||||||
| CASHON | Mary and Elizabeth | ||||||||
| CATHERAN | Joseph | ||||||||
| CHANDLER | John, Hannah, and Kate | ||||||||
| CLARKE | Samuel and, Emma | ||||||||
| CLARKE | Matthew and Mary | ||||||||
| CONNOLLY | William, Anne, Elizabeth, Anne, and James | ||||||||
| CONNON | Alexander, Mary Ann, Esther, William, and Phoebe | ||||||||
| COSTAR | Charles, Eliza, Martha, Christopher, Alice, and ???ndly | ||||||||
| DEAN | Catherine, William, and Jane | ||||||||
| DELAHUNT | Mary | ||||||||
| DOYLE | Catherine, Eva, Emily, William and Alfred | ||||||||
| DUFFIN | Harriet | ||||||||
| EVETT | David, Louisa, David, and Walter | ||||||||
| FLINT | Walter | ||||||||
| FOSTER | Francis, Annie, Edwin and Frank | ||||||||
| FOWLER | Abraham, Elizabeth, Hannah, Francis, William, Thomas, and George | ||||||||
| FRENCH | George, Sarah, Eliza, Elizabeth, and Maria | ||||||||
| FRETHAWAY | John and Mary | ||||||||
| FULLER | Sophia, Louisa, and Ada Maria | ||||||||
| FULLER | Stephen | ||||||||
| GARSIDE | Benjamin | ||||||||
| GILLOTT | Joseph, Sarah, Jonas, Astley, and Henry | ||||||||
| GREY | John, Margaret, Rosanna, and Margaret | ||||||||
| GRUNDY | Isaac, Anne, and Sarah | ||||||||
| HAGUE | Lydia | ||||||||
| HARNETT | James | ||||||||
| HARRIS | William E, Sarah, and Mary | ||||||||
| HARRIS | Andrew and Mary Ann | ||||||||
| HAWKES | William and Sarah | ||||||||
| HAYES | Michael, Catherine, Mary, Julia, Catherine, and Anne | ||||||||
| HAYTER | William, Elizabeth, and Kate | ||||||||
| HAYTER | James, Jane, William, and Elizaabeth | ||||||||
| HAYTER | Jasher and Albert | ||||||||
| HEALE | Robert | ||||||||
| HERRING | James and Sarah | ||||||||
| HILL | James, Emily, Emily, and James | ||||||||
| HODGSON | George and Hannah | ||||||||
| HOLDSHIP | Elizabeth and Caroline | ||||||||
| HOLMES | John, Sarah, Alfred, George, Susannah, Samuel, Emily, Charles, and Arthur | ||||||||
| HOLMES | Eliza and Ida | ||||||||
| HOWARD | Samuel | ||||||||
| HOWARD | Thomas and Mrs | ||||||||
| HUTCHINSON | Jas and Hannah | ||||||||
| HYDE | Robert, Mary, Julia and Thomas | ||||||||
| JOHNSTONE | RObert, Sarah, Mary, and Jane | ||||||||
| JOHNSTONE | Walter and Anne | ||||||||
| KARL | Jas. | ||||||||
| LANE | Charles, Anne, Ann, and Emily | ||||||||
| LEE | John and Eva | ||||||||
| LIGHT | George, and Mary | ||||||||
| LINTON | John, Hariett, Elizabeth. Frederick, and John | ||||||||
| LOCKWOOD | John, Mary, Annie, K???a | ||||||||
| LONGHURST | Clark and Elizabeth | ||||||||
| LOWE | Benjamin and Franis | ||||||||
| MACKAY | Robert and Elizabeth | ||||||||
| MARSHALL | George, Mary, James, John and George | ||||||||
| MARTIN | George, Juliana, Juliana, Alice, Kate, and Blanche | ||||||||
| MARTIN | Joseph | ||||||||
| MASSEY | George, Anne, and Sarah | ||||||||
| MAY | John, Jane, James, Clara, William, and Thomas | ||||||||
| MAYALL | Phineas, Mary, Sarah, Ellen, Martha, John, Georgo, Arnaud, and James | ||||||||
| MCASHBY | Elizabeth | ||||||||
| MCGREGOR | Margaret | ||||||||
| MCILROY | Richard | ||||||||
| MCKENZIE | Murdoch and Margaret | ||||||||
| MCKENZIE | Alexander | ||||||||
| MCNAMARA | Winifred | ||||||||
| MCSHEE | Alfred, John, James, Alfred, Charlotte, and Norah | ||||||||
| MILLISON | Henry and Eliza | ||||||||
| MILLISON | Ellen | ||||||||
| MILLS | Thomas, Amelia, George, and Mary | ||||||||
| MILLS | Charles and John H. | ||||||||
| MOSS | Harry | ||||||||
| MUNRO | James and Isabella | ||||||||
| MYERS | Ellen | ||||||||
| MYERS | Elizabeth, Honery, and Louis | ||||||||
| NADEN | Thomas, Hannah, and Mary | ||||||||
| NEWCOMBE | Richard and Henry | ||||||||
| NEWSOME | Joseph | ||||||||
| NEWTON | George, Mary, George Sarah, and Matilda | ||||||||
| NICHOLSON | James and Sarah | ||||||||
| O'BRIEN | Christopher and Ellen | ||||||||
| OLDFIELD | Edwin | ||||||||
| PAIN | William, Charlotte, William, Charles, and Hannah | ||||||||
| PARDON | William | ||||||||
| PASSMORE | William | ||||||||
| PATSKEY | Harriett and Isabella | ||||||||
| PEARSON | Harry, Jane, and Mary | ||||||||
| PEMAHAN ?? | Robert, Mary, Henry, and Robert | ||||||||
| PHILIPS | Thomas and Lydia | ||||||||
| PILGRIM | Samuel | ||||||||
| PINGELEY | William | ||||||||
| PONSFORD | William, Emma, William, and Lucy | ||||||||
| PROCTOR | William | ||||||||
| PROCTOR | Mary | ||||||||
| RANGER | George | ||||||||
| RIDGEWAY | Henry | ||||||||
| ROBERTSON | C A | ||||||||
| ROBINSON | Cecillia, and Ellen | ||||||||
| ROBINSON | John | ||||||||
| RODGERS | James and Mary | ||||||||
| SCHOLEZ | Charles and Helen | ||||||||
| SEED | James and Sarah | ||||||||
| SEED | Thomas | ||||||||
| SHADLOW | Benjamin, Anne, W Henry and Frank | ||||||||
| SHAW | Thos and Rachael | ||||||||
| SHORT | William, Mary Ann, Ellen and William C | ||||||||
| SIMPSON | Esther, Charlotte, Martha, and Joseph | ||||||||
| SMITH | John and Charlotte | ||||||||
| SMITH | Young, Thomas, Esther, John, Charlotte, Jane and William | ||||||||
| SMITH | Sarah and Thomas | ||||||||
| STANLEY | John, William, and Mary | ||||||||
| STEBBINGS | William | ||||||||
| STEVENS | Caroline | ||||||||
| SUM | James, Susan, and William | ||||||||
| SUMMERSET | Henry and Rose | ||||||||
| TAYLOR | James R | ||||||||
| TIERNON | Bridget and Catherine | ||||||||
| TIVION | Patrick | ||||||||
| TRADE | John | ||||||||
| TUCKER | George and Elizabeth | ||||||||
| TUCKER | Sarah and Elizabeth | ||||||||
| TURNER | John | ||||||||
| TURNER | Mary | ||||||||
| WADE | John and William | ||||||||
| WADE | Henry, Eliza, George, and Eliza | ||||||||
| WADSWORTH | Robert, Mary, William, Mary, Annie, David, Elizabeth, and Emily | ||||||||
| WAGGETT | James | ||||||||
| WALDRON | Thomas, Jane, Sophia, Mary, and Thomas | ||||||||
| WATTS | William, Emma, and Jane | ||||||||
| WESTHEAD | James, Joseph, Benjamin, and Emma | ||||||||
| WHITE | William, Mary, George, Mary, Eliza, and William | ||||||||
| WHITEHEAD | David, Martha, Mary, Susannah, John, and Sarah | ||||||||
| WIGGS | William and Sarah | ||||||||
| WILLIAMS | William and Martha | ||||||||
| WILSON | Thomas, Jane, George, Alice, Ada Jane, and Lelitia | ||||||||
| WILSON | Isaac, Catherine, Mary Jane, and Catherine | ||||||||
| WORTHINGTON | Richard, Harriett, and Henry | ||||||||
| WRIGHT | Thomas A | ||||||||
| WRIGHT | Annie and Annie | ||||||||
| WYKES | Joseph | ||||||||
| YOUNG | David and Cecilia | ||||||||
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