PIONEER'S BIRTHDAY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1974, 3 February 1914, Page 6

PIONEER'S BIRTHDAY

ONE OF WELLINGTON'S FIRST SETTLERS. (By Teheraphr- Special OotrcericnilcnO Auckland, February 2. Mr J. J. Tame, one- of tlio original settlers at Wellington under the New Zealand Lund Company, but now resident at. North Head, Dovonport, celebrated his, HBth birthday on Thuisday. Seventy-four yoais of adult residence in New Zfcaliind still finds him wonderfully well —a tact which muses much gratification to his many friend's, and relations. Mr. Taine, who was born at* Bath, England, in 1816, embarked for New Zealand at Gravqscnd on Sopteni' ber 18. 1839, in the ship Adelaide, com. mandod by Captain Campbell, and ar* rived in i'ort Nicholson on March 7, 1810. The Adelaide dropped anchor between Somes Island and the Maoii Pa at the mouth of the Unit River. The Tory and Glenborvio also enteicd tho hmbourat the .same time. That night Oic'lfull , River rose, and flooded lon-lying lands with tho result that a council of pionceis decided to move the settlement to tho other cud of the harbour, and 1 next day a landing was effected on Pipitca bi?aoh. On the voy. bkc out /Jr. Taine met his future w i't'o. Miss Lcocadia do Olivcra, tho adopted daughter of Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in whoso biography will bo found a very pietty story relative to her childhood days in Lisbon. Shortly after landing tiioir marriage was celebrated, Mr. Taine vas a highly enterprising man. fib eunwdod tho late Mr. E. J. Riddiloid m the service of the New Zealand Land Company, and, uliou tho Californian and Australian gold rushes broko out, he, in conjunction with the Jnte Messrs.- Bcthuno tind Runter, dispatched' many vessels to both countries, their onlcrpriso bojng well rewarded. In -1861 Mr, Taine decided to move to Dunedin, and ho icsidod there until 1879 .when ho camo to Auckland, lie has spent most of his time in Auckland since thcii| the period being broken by vi'sils to England, tho ' Continent, and Australia.