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THE CARISBROOKE CASTLE. When the Carisbrooke Castle, a ship of 1415 tons, commanded by Captain Freebody, arrived in Auckland on September 8, 1875, after a passage of 92 days, from Belfast, with the first of the Katikati settlers on board, she was pronounced by one of the newspapers "the most completely fitted and best conditioned immigrant ship it has ever been our lot to see." The ship brought...
The Lady Jocelyn arrived in Auckland on 17 August 1878 with the second party of Katikati settlers. Apart from George Vesey Stewart's parents, brother Hugh and sister-in-law Adela, the No. 2 party included "two Generals, a Major, two or three Captains and Lieutenants, a Canon, a Doctor, no end of pretty girls and fine young men." Garrett * Frances Garrett (Lang) * William Garrett Stewart * Mervy...