SETTLEMENT at the AUCKLAND ISLANDS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 236, 6 January 1875, Page 2

SETTLEMENT at the AUCKLAND ISLANDS.

The Southland Times says that Mr. Kenneth M’lvor, who left this district some time ago in the Mabel Jane with sheep for the Auckland Islands, where he and Dr. Monckton are forming a pastoral settlement, returned from a very successful voyage thither. On the outward voyage, the party were forced, through stress of weather, to take shelter in Port William, Stewart’s Island, where they remained for some days. The voyage from Port William to their place of landing at the Aueklands occupied ten days, during six of which they lay becalmed, and the wind during the four remaining days continued very light and variable. They lost only two sheep on the passage. Mr. M’lvor landed 31 sheep in good health and condition—two qualities which they are likely long to retain, as the pasturage is sweet and plentiful. W e trust that Dr. Monckton’s and Mr. M‘lver’s enterprise will meet with the success whiqh it so highly merits, and that in the course of a few years vessels’ will load at the Aueklands with wool, hides, and other articles of commerce produced by the settlement which they are uow opening.