PUNCH COLUMN.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume II, Issue 56, 25 January 1868, Page 3

PUNCH COLUMN.

Reception op Ye “ Galatea” at Ye Heads at Ye Wellington City. Waterman’s Boat Waterman’s Boat, Captain Douglas Captain C. Croft Small steamer “ Alpha,” pioneer. Commodore Will’s punt “ Rangatira,” containing 150 young ladies in white ; none under 85 years of age, all to wear the “ Galatea ” “ Chignon,” Admiral Duncan in his steam yacht “Lady “ Bird” (in commission for the occasion.) The Pilot’s Boat and Crew. Waterman’s Boats Waterman’s Boats again again. A whaleboat containing the Harbor-master, Captain Holiday in gold lace and cocked hat. Two small steamers N.Z.S.N. Company. Captain Houghton’s punt with lightermen, clean shaved and in holiday costume. Commodore Wills and Henry Meech, Esq., Master shipwright on board the” Queen Bee” Floating hydraulic pump in full uniform. H.M.S.S. “ Sturt” 2,200 tons burthen, 74 guns, towing the monster merchant ship “Wild Duck’” Punt containing “ Snobs.” Capt Buckley and the Armstrong guns mounted on swivels. A steamer containing the Licensed Victuallers, Bear-Admiral Osgood in command. A Floating Battery of Beer and Stimulants. The Fite Brigade on a Steam Engine, Captain Whiteford in command. Waterman’s Boats again. Captain W. B. Rhodes in command of a gun taken in the Maori war. A red discarded Buoy with Trumble on the top as “ Neptune.”

The Town Board Commissioners with a model Lamp post, approved by Skeet, *• Visible,” ib a funk. S.MjS.S. Galatea.

Steamer towing cargo boats full of 'addresses to

welcome the live Prince. A MerMid with guitar singing “What are the wild waves saying.”

Eircaldie and Moeller waving their kid glOves Hastwell’a Coach, the “ Cob ” of the period on a pontoon bridge.

The “Aphis Vastatof” on a bag of potatoes showing no disease in “ spuds,”