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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. John Phillipps

Mr. John Phillipps was born in Birmingham in 1863. He left Home in 1849, for California, by the first vessel which sailed from Liverpool for the diggings. In 1852 he sailed for Melbourne in the “Ceres,” and had as a fellow passenger Mr. C. E. Ring, afterwards the discoverer of gold at Coromandel. The “Ceres” was wrecked about seventy miles from Fiji, and the survivors were brought on to New Zealand by the whaler “Daniel Watson.” Mr. Phillipps remained in New Zealand for a short time, and then went to Sydney, where he was joined by his father, with whom he proceeded to Auckland, in 1854, and established the business which has since become so well known. Mrs. Phillipps, who recently died, was a Miss White, and left six sons and two daughters.