OTAGO CELEBRATES
SETTLEMENT ANNIVERSARY
(By Telegraph.) ' (Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. The eighty-fifth anniversary of the - organised settlement .of Otago was celebrated today in warm weather. There is no longer any living representative of the passengers who arrived by the ship John Wiekliffe. During the past twelve months the last suryivpr of them was called to her rest. The John Wickliffe was a wooden vessel of only 662 tons built in 1841 ancl owned by John Sands, of Greenock who was paid 2000 guineas for a charter. The passage money ranged irom 35 guineas to 16 guineas. She sailed from Gravesend on November 24, 1847, under the command of Bartholomew Daly, carrying 97 emigrants headed by .Captain Cargill. She crossed the equator on January 15 and dropped anchor within the Taiaroa Heads on March 22, 1848, moving up to Port Chalmers on the following day.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 5
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148OTAGO CELEBRATES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 5
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