Shipping in the Taruheru.

“Excluding Turanganui, now the town of Gisborne, Poverty Bay was very sparsely settled in 1867. The U'Rens were at Makaraka. Two sons, Tom and John, lived there, their home being called Roseland. Robert had died shortly before and his widow resided on a small property adjoining Roseland. These three were sons of the original U'Ren, who settled very early—I think in the 40's, page 99 at Makaraka. The original Espie, father of J. E. Espie, was not in occupation of any of his property, which consisted of about 150 acres of very good land. It adjoined U'Ren's, which was smaller. Espie had two houses on his land, one of which we occupied on arrival. It had previously been occupied by Mr. H. S. Wardell, who, I believe, was the first Resident Magistrate in Poverty Bay. The other was in possession of Alexander Robb, a son-in-law of the original Espie. On Espie's property was a large store-house, which had, in earlier days, been used for storing grain and other produce and immediately in front was a wharf up to which small vessels used to come to load the produce. The storing and shipping had ceased before 1867.