The Pioneer Ships.

We now come to the point in our story where the actual settlers began to arrive. I propose to deal with the ships that arrived up to the end of 1841, as the people who came in them all settled in Wellington. After the Clydeside, which arrived in October of that year, the immigrants, though still belonging to the one general scheme of colonisation, were sent over to the South Island, where they started the settlement of Nelson, another of the Company's ventures. The ships, in the order in which they left the Old Country, were:—

Sailed.	From	Ship.	Master.	Passengers.
1839
May 5	London	Tory, 382 tons	Chaffers	6
July 31	"	Cuba, 273 tons	Newcombe	30
Sept. 15	"	Oriental, 506 tons	Wilson	155
Sept. 18	"	Aurora, 550 tons	Heale	148
Sept. 18	"	Adelaide, 640 tons	Campbell	176
Oct. 5	Plymouth	Duke of Roxburgh, 417 tons ..	Thomson	167
Oct. 20	London	Glenbervie, 387 tons	Black	5
Oct. 30	Glasgow	Bengal Merchant, 503 tons	Hemery	160
Nov. 19	London	Bolton, 540 tons	Robinson	232
Dec. 13	"	Coromandel, 662 tons	French	44

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Sailed.	From	Ship.	Master.	Passengers.
1840
Feb. 16	London	Brougham, 250 tons	Kettlewell	5
July 5	"	Martha Ridgway, 621 tons	Bisset	225
July 6	"	Platina, 350 tons	Wycherley	2
Aug. 13	"	London, 700 tons	Shuttleworth	228
Aug. 25	Greenock	Blenheim, 378 tons	Grey	197
Sept. 14	London	Slain's Castle, 500 tons	Petrie	224
Oct. 21	"	Lady Nugent, 600 tons	Santry	263
Nov. 28	"	Jane, 356 tons	Stobo	—
Dec. 8	"	Olympus, 500 tons	Whyte	159
Dec. 23	"	Balley, 163 tons	Sinclair	—
1841
Jan. 7	"	Lord William Bentlnck, 444 tons	Crow	242
Feb. 5	"	Catherine Stewart Forbes, 457 tons	Hobbs	176
April 6	"	Tyne, 500 tons	Robertson	98
June 19	"	Gertrude, 560 tons	Stead	220
Aug. 6	"	Mandarin, 425 tons	Yuile	—
—	Greenock Clydeside, 236 tons	Mathieson	14

Antilla brig brought passengers from Prince Rupert, wrecked at Capetown, on the way out from London to Wellington.