April.

25.—Mr. Frederick Tuckett, a surveyor of the New Zealand Company, arrived at Otago whilst exploring for a suitable site for the new Edinburgh settlement. He sailed from Nelson in the brig Deborah, Captain Wing, on the 31st March, and was accompanied by his assistant surveyors, Messrs. Barnicoat and Davison, and by Dr. Monro, Rev. Charles Creed, Rev. J. F. H. Wöhlers, Lieutenant J. J. Symonds, and Messrs. Wilkinson and Withers. Mr. Creed relieved Mr. Watkin at Waikouaiti, and Mr. Wöhlers, a Lutheran missionary, proceeded to Ruapuke.