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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 570, 18 January 1851, Page 2

The Government brig returned on Wednesday from Port Victoria, which she left the previous Friday. The Cressy and Sir George Seymour were still at Port Victoria, the Randolph and Charlotte jane had sailed for Sydney. The newly arrived settlers were

busily engaged in erecting their houses and in putting themselves and their property under cover, the weather had been very favourable for their operations, having been remarkably fine and warm since their landing. Many families had left the port for the site of Lyttelton, the future capital of the settlement, and had transported their goods by water to Sumner, and thence by land to the plains, the new road from the port not being in a sufficiently advanced state to be available. The Bishop of New Zealand left Port Victoria, in the Undine on the Bth inst. The types and presses of a printing establishment had arrived in the Cressy, and the first number of the Lyttelton Times was to have been published last Saturday, so that by the next vessel from the new settlement we may expect to receive the first number of this accession to the Press of New Zealand. Much dissappointment has been experienced at no Mail for Wellington having been brought by the Cressy; as the three first emmigrant vessels to Port Victoria were without any mail, the arrival of the Cressy was looked for with impatience as it was confidently supposed the Wellington mail was on board that vessel.