The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published Every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Morning.
Thursday, January 23, 1890. WELLINGTON AND ITS JUBILEE.
Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thnu airn'at at be thy oonntfy's, Thy God’s, and truth’s.
Yesterday was observed by Wellington as the joth anniversary of the landing of the first large body of settlers upon the shores of Port Nicholson. It was on the 22nd January, 1840, that some 1200 colonists arrived, under the New Zealand Land Company, giving the first appreciable increase to the population of the colony and establishing the regular flow of people into New Zealand. A week later Captain Hobson formally declared the colony as a dependency of Great Britain, but while this would form the initial point in the history of New Zealand as part of Great Britain, it is from the previous date that Wellington as a settlement takes its rise. Without entering into the puerile discussion as to whether the numeral proportion of the settlers
gives the 22nd a right to be considered as the jubilee of the whole colony, we can point with pride to the results - of that settlement. The Wellington of to-day bears no comparison with the Wellington of 50 years ago. From a small settlement it has been erected into the nominal capital of the colony, and stands to-day as a powerful monument of the push and laborious exertions of its early settlers. Occupying a central position in the colony, and with a good port, Wellington must always retain a large proportion of the trade of the colony, and its future progress is assured, although we do not believe it will ever be in more than name the principal town of New Zealand. We congratulate Wellington on its past progress, which we feel sure, when a new era of prosperity sets in, will be far surpassed by the future.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 407, 23 January 1890, Page 2
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315The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE. Published Every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Morning. Thursday, January 23, 1890. WELLINGTON AND ITS JUBILEE. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 407, 23 January 1890, Page 2
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