ARRIVAL OF THE EGMONT
The New
Zealander June 16th 1858
108 days passage…..120 passengers, all for Auckland, who appear to be a
highly respectable and valuable class…..ship clean and creditable. Two deaths
– Joseph WATSON, aged 32, of pulmonary consumption on 1st May: James
WATSON, father of Joseph, aged 61, dysentery and asthma, on 8th June.
A weekly journal called ‘Egmont Times’ was issued which for its
calling, pictorial and musical illustrations us worthy of more than an ephemeral
existence. Some of the sketches are admirable and what is noteworthy in this
enlightened age is the fact that the pictorial artist is a Prussian seaman before the
mast, an artist who wields his pencil in an exceedingly felicitous style.
Letter of
testimony to Capt Gibson of the Egmont
BARTLY, Thomas H R
BASSETT, W T
FLETCHER, Mr & Mrs John
GRAHAM, W K
HALL, John W
KENYON, E P
LYON, William C, late Capt., 92nd
Highlanders
MORLEY, Mr & Mrs W
MORLEY, James
NOONE, Miss L
MACSHANE, Eugene, Asst Surgeon,
58th Regt
POWELL, C H