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take up with other provisions to some American whalers that were lying there. This was a some-what eventful trip. On arrival at Akaroa, she was engaged to convey to Wellington a prisoner who had been arrested for breaking into a store. The prisoner and the policeman (named Barry) and the witnesses were all to be taken up together. The schooner was owned by the well known Paddy Hood, and she had first to make a trip to his settlement at the northern end of the Ninety-mile beach, where the Little River empties itself, so as to get some provisions. On getting these aboard, she returned to Akaroa and picked up her party, which included an officer from a French man-of-war, who wanted to go to Wellington to make arrangements for victualling the vessel. There were altogether twenty-three souls on board when the Rory O’More sailed for Wellington—a port she was not destined to reach, as she overran her reckoning in a fog, and got jammed in Palliser Bay, where she was beached to save life, it being found that she could not help going ashore. The men stopped behind long enough to save the cargo, and then set out to walk to Wellington, which they reached in three days. Captain Cole was not in charge of the schooner when she was wrecked, another master having been shipped in his place.

“Mr. Haberfield was three months in Wellington, unable to get work, and scarcely able to obtain sufficient food; from which difficulty he was released by the opportune arrival of one of Johnny Jones’ vessels (the Magnet, then under the charge of Capt. M‘Farlane) the mate of which (Mr. Lewis) took him on board and provided for him until he got a passage by her to Akaroa, from which place he was taken home by the schooner Mana (Capt. Sweeney)—a vessel that was to take a shipment of pigs from Moeraki to Mr. Fraser’s station on Mana Island.