ARRIVAL OF VESEY STEWART AND THE KATIKATI SETTLERS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume IV, Issue 315, 15 September 1875, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF VESEY STEWART AND THE KATIKATI SETTLERS.

j , Shortly aEor nino o’clock yoHojl ] av m-rYuR tic 1 000 Komooia sli-amo: M, ill- harbour, having on hoard a lol t, tloii of Mr \Y • ,-v ktowarl'o parr 0 f nip Mai t 1 1 r da 1 tho EM'hod : j], (i .o j Y ’ r ( ■ t • arrival uE>u; i a no 1,00::: on * M • , briuMufo Mr V EMvmr: an I i looko urn I t!io roiaa: .[.M of tho ]- nor - thorn EMuir nhoUrj no iMuMM- in Ml. Ebi E; • arrival Y . ihr. 1 E>r v . '! M m- ah TauiainfoYap. poi Tod oil mo a n.aio 1- tyuvo tuo -av

settlors welcome; the wharf Was crowded, aud n hearty dioor was i‘> >y tiio new comers as the emne to an anchor. The commits appointed to woic.omo IMr Stewart am] his parly then proceeded on hoard \\\l sivanuv, and Captain Morris. M.Pc" read tho following address : —. To (h V, SiEWAin’, Esq., Wo, the inhabitants of Taurang a 1 hjl Iv European and native, oftVr°to von and the settlors accompanying yo l{ our most sincere ami hearty welcome to the? siiores of your nowiy-mlopud country, and, more especially to ih t }y. trial of Tanranga. And we trust thrC the r-dations u«'>w about to lie established halve mi us may he markedby a long continued social aui] phn-am intercourse, and that iho dillirai!t task you have under* ink mi of forming’ a special settleinm; and tronsfm'eiiug a, large section of lie' slow waste lands of the dishi-t into smiling homesteads may he carried to a. siav. Wul i-mm and prove a great eoniuuTeial man-—. (hi hidudf of ilia inhabitants, IS; tried !iy Caitaix Moiuus. M.P.C. and t he oilier members of the com* niiuce. Mr Yesey Aewarh in reply, trusted that he would In'excused from makimj a long speech, amt in a few and feeling words expressed the satisfaction ex* imvhmced by himself and his fellmv-

5.,-U Mrs at ill 1 * cordial reception given them, and ’hanked tne inhabitants of Taurnuga for tlio kind lookup* expressed hi 11 10 address. The chief Litoka also addressed a few words or welcome to Mr Htewart ou behalf of tiro natives in (ho district. The binding of tho passengers, and landing temporary lodgings for them to Oio-iii >v during 'their slay in Tuuranga was then proceeded with, and thanks to tie' energy of the mouthers of tie' committee and of (’aptaiu Tanks, tho iadefatigable immigration officer, ail. diiii cables wore surmounted and tlio ox*:itiny interests of the day canto to a idose.