the Lady Jocelyn was originally built for the East India trade, and was fitted with auxiliary steam engines, but when the Suez Canal was opened the engines were dispensed with, and under sail in her early days she made some very fast passages to Australia. the Lady Jocelyn, in addition to having one of those musical names that cling to the memory, was notable for other, reasons. Up to the year 1878, when she sailed for the second time into the Waitemata, she was the biggest immigrant ship trading to these shores, and she was also the

the Lady Jocelyn At Port Chalmers.

boat that brought out a large number of the Katikati and Te Puke settlers—two of the special settlements organised by Mr. Vesey Stewart. The Vesey Stewart settlers were men and women in prosperous circumstances, and their arrival was regarded as a distinct forward step in the settlement of the colony.

"Tickle the land with a hoe and it will laugh a harvest," was one of the catch-phrases used by the lecturer that went round the old Britain telling of the golden future that awaited anyone deciding to make a home in the new Britain of the South. A hoe! It would have needed a steam tractor in those days to extract even a smile from the dismal spot in which these disillusioned people found themselves. Old Katikati people will tell you even to-day of the bitter things that were thought and said, and that there were even threats of shooting somebody. But those days are long ago and far away, and though the Katikati stock has by no means stuck to the shores of Tauranga harbour, those that remained have found that New Zealand isn't such a bad place after all, and they won't hear a word against "Kattykat," which to-day is a happy and prosperous settlement.