It Happened To-day. WELLINGTON ANNIVERSARY
To-day is the 95th anniversary of the founding of Wellington, for on January 22, 1840, the Aurora, the first of the vessels dispatched by the New Zealand Company, anchored at the entrance of the harbour. Commanded by Captain Heale, she had left Gravesend on September 18, 1839, having on board 146 passengers, 21 in the cabin, and 125 in the steerage. During the next week the work of disembarking was carried out. A small jetty was run out by the surveying men who had left England in the Cuba on August 31, 18 days before the Aurora, and had arrived at Port Nicholson on January 3, 1840. Locations were allotted near the beach for the pitching of tents and temporary huts in the erection of which the Natives assisted; aud some wooden houses in frame, sent out by the com pany for the reception of the labouring emigrants, were also set up.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 7
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157It Happened To-day. WELLINGTON ANNIVERSARY Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 7
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