| MATOAKA |
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| The MATOAKA left London on 17th September, 1864 and arrived in Auckland on Tuesday, |
| 3rd January, 1865, under the command of Captain William C Barrnett. |
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| Transcribed from the "Southern Cross" newspaper for Wednesday, 4th January, 1865. |
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| ARRIVAL OF THE MATOAKA, FROM LONDON The clipper ship Matoaka arrived off the Heads yesterday afternoon, after a |
| good passage of 93 days from the start. The Matoaka is a vessel of 1,323 tons one of George Seymour, Peacock, and Co's |
| liners and is a fine specimen of a Burnswick-built clipper ship. She was formerly here in charge of Captain Stevens, but is |
| now commanded by Captain William C. Barnett who has visited our waters on several occasions in the good ship Cresswell, |
| and appears to have gained the confidence and esteem of all on board his ship. The Matoaka was last here in September |
| 1859, coming up harbour with the unfortunate Tornado, out the same number of days from Liverpool direct. On that occasion |
| she made the passage in about 100 days, including a stay of several days at Wellington. She has just been recleansed and |
| is now on the first letter for twelve years. The Mataoka brings a full cargo of generall merchandise, and an addition to our |
| population of 441 souls, there being including crew 480 souls on board. It is not often a vessel with so large a number of |
| immigrants on board enters our harbour in such a cleanly and well-ordered state and this fact is highly creditable to Captain |
| Barnett and the medical officer in charge, Mr Jonas King, who has faitlifully attended to the health of the passnegers. The |
| Matoaka took her departure from the Downs its on the 2nd September, with a westerly wind, and sent the pilot on shore on |
| the 27th, taking her final leave off Start Point on the following day with a gentle easterly wind. On the 5th October the island |
| of Porto Santo was sighted, and the wind being, S W had to tack across until passing Madena the wind still prevailing from |
| W to S W until reaching latitude 20 N, the ship was compelled to pass to the eastward of Cape de Verde Islands. She then |
| had the wind from N and N E for two days, and on the 19th October sighted a ship supposed to be the Light Brigade, in |
| latitude 12 28 N latitude, 22 46 W longitude. On the 24th spoke the Light Brigade, twenty-six days out, which vessel reported |
| that the ship tothe N E was the Robert Henderson, 3? days from Glasgow, bound to Otago. On the 28th was still in company |
| with the Light Brigade. The island of Trinidad was observed on the 3rd November, on which day the S E trades were lost, |
| and on the 22nd of the same month the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope was made. A full rigged ship, supposed to be the |
| Light Brigade, was here sighted, one being about 5 miles distant to the S W. [By reference to the report of the Light Brigade, |
| we find that the two vesesls must have kept very close together, as the Matoaka and Light Brigade both sighted the island of |
| Trinidad on the 3rd November. There is but little doubt that the vessel which the Matoaka sighted off the Cape was the Light |
| Brigade] after passing the Cape she had very light and variable weather, with the exception of one or two moderate gales, |
| running down her easting to ?0 S, and rounding the south of Van Diemen's Island, without sighting it, on the 84th day from the |
| the Downs. The Three Kings were made on Sunday last at 11 am, and a f?? wind brought her down coast. She will work up |
| the harbour this morning, and her passengers will probably be lannded tomorrow. The following is a list of the passengers - |
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| Some of the names were very difficult to read. If in doubt, check another source. | | | | | | | | |
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| PASSENGERS | | | | | | | | |
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| AITCHINSON | William, Elizabeth, and Henry | | | | | | |
| BATES | Reuben and Mary | | | | | | | |
| BELL | William, Sarah, Emma, Anne, and Sophia | | | | | |
| BENNETT | George and Lydia | | | | | | | |
| BILLING | John, Mary, Selina, and John H | | | | | | |
| BILLING | Albert and Elizabeth | | | | | | | |
| BILLING | William | | | | | | | |
| BINTON | William, Harriett, Marshall, and Ada | | | | | |
| BLACKBURN | John and Rebecca Blackburn | | | | | | |
| BLANCOME | Richard and Emma | | | | | | | |
| BOOKER | Richard, Elizabeth, and Henry | | | | | | |
| BOOTH | Richard, Mary, Richard, Thomas, and John | | | | | |
| BOOTH | John | | | | | | | |
| BRAY | Charles and Mary | | | | | | | |
| BROWN | Sarah | | | | | | | |
| BUCKLEY | James, Annie, Mary, Anne, Cornelius, and James | | | | |
| BURRELL | George | | | | | | | |
| BUSHELL | Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, and Elizabeth A | | | | |
| CARDON | Thomas, Martha, Elizabeth, and John G. | | | | | |
| CASELEY | William, Mary, and Annie | | | | | | |
| CASHON | Thomas and Juanna | | | | | | | |
| CASHON | Mary and Elizabeth | | | | | | | |
| CATHERAN | Joseph | | | | | | | |
| CHANDLER | John, Hannah, and Kate | | | | | | |
| CLARKE | Samuel and, Emma | | | | | | | |
| CLARKE | Matthew and Mary | | | | | | | |
| CONNOLLY | William, Anne, Elizabeth, Anne, and James | | | | |
| CONNON | Alexander, Mary Ann, Esther, William, and Phoebe | | | | |
| COSTAR | Charles, Eliza, Martha, Christopher, Alice, and ???ndly | | | |
| DEAN | Catherine, William, and Jane | | | | | | |
| DELAHUNT | Mary | | | | | | | |
| DOYLE | Catherine, Eva, Emily, William and Alfred | | | | | |
| DUFFIN | Harriet | | | | | | | |
| EVETT | David, Louisa, David, and Walter | | | | | |
| FLINT | Walter | | | | | | | |
| FOSTER | Francis, Annie, Edwin and Frank | | | | | |
| FOWLER | Abraham, Elizabeth, Hannah, Francis, William, Thomas, and George | | |
| FRENCH | George, Sarah, Eliza, Elizabeth, and Maria | | | | | |
| FRETHAWAY | John and Mary | | | | | | | |
| FULLER | Sophia, Louisa, and Ada Maria | | | | | | |
| FULLER | Stephen | | | | | | | |
| GARSIDE | Benjamin | | | | | | | |
| GILLOTT | Joseph, Sarah, Jonas, Astley, and Henry | | | | | |
| GREY | John, Margaret, Rosanna, and Margaret | | | | | |
| GRUNDY | Isaac, Anne, and Sarah | | | | | | |
| HAGUE | Lydia | | | | | | | |
| HARNETT | James | | | | | | | |
| HARRIS | William E, Sarah, and Mary | | | | | | |
| HARRIS | Andrew and Mary Ann | | | | | | |
| HAWKES | William and Sarah | | | | | | | |
| HAYES | Michael, Catherine, Mary, Julia, Catherine, and Anne | | | | |
| HAYTER | William, Elizabeth, and Kate | | | | | | |
| HAYTER | James, Jane, William, and Elizaabeth | | | | | |
| HAYTER | Jasher and Albert | | | | | | | |
| HEALE | Robert | | | | | | | |
| HERRING | James and Sarah | | | | | | | |
| HILL | James, Emily, Emily, and James | | | | | |
| HODGSON | George and Hannah | | | | | | | |
| HOLDSHIP | Elizabeth and Caroline | | | | | | |
| HOLMES | John, Sarah, Alfred, George, Susannah, Samuel, Emily, Charles, and Arthur | | |
| HOLMES | Eliza and Ida | | | | | | | |
| HOWARD | Samuel | | | | | | | |
| HOWARD | Thomas and Mrs | | | | | | | |
| HUTCHINSON | Jas and Hannah | | | | | | | |
| HYDE | Robert, Mary, Julia and Thomas | | | | | | |
| JOHNSTONE | RObert, Sarah, Mary, and Jane | | | | | | |
| JOHNSTONE | Walter and Anne | | | | | | | |
| KARL | Jas. | | | | | | | |
| LANE | Charles, Anne, Ann, and Emily | | | | | | |
| LEE | John and Eva | | | | | | | |
| LIGHT | George, and Mary | | | | | | | |
| LINTON | John, Hariett, Elizabeth. Frederick, and John | | | | |
| LOCKWOOD | John, Mary, Annie, K???a | | | | | | |
| LONGHURST | Clark and Elizabeth | | | | | | | |
| LOWE | Benjamin and Franis | | | | | | | |
| MACKAY | Robert and Elizabeth | | | | | | | |
| MARSHALL | George, Mary, James, John and George | | | | | |
| MARTIN | George, Juliana, Juliana, Alice, Kate, and Blanche | | | | |
| MARTIN | Joseph | | | | | | | |
| MASSEY | George, Anne, and Sarah | | | | | | |
| MAY | John, Jane, James, Clara, William, and Thomas | | | | |
| MAYALL | Phineas, Mary, Sarah, Ellen, Martha, John, Georgo, Arnaud, and James | | |
| MCASHBY | Elizabeth | | | | | | | |
| MCGREGOR | Margaret | | | | | | | |
| MCILROY | Richard | | | | | | | |
| MCKENZIE | Murdoch and Margaret | | | | | | |
| MCKENZIE | Alexander | | | | | | | |
| MCNAMARA | Winifred | | | | | | | |
| MCSHEE | Alfred, John, James, Alfred, Charlotte, and Norah | | | | |
| MILLISON | Henry and Eliza | | | | | | | |
| MILLISON | Ellen | | | | | | | |
| MILLS | Thomas, Amelia, George, and Mary | | | | | |
| MILLS | Charles and John H. | | | | | | | |
| MOSS | Harry | | | | | | | |
| MUNRO | James and Isabella | | | | | | | |
| MYERS | Ellen | | | | | | | |
| MYERS | Elizabeth, Honery, and Louis | | | | | | |
| NADEN | Thomas, Hannah, and Mary | | | | | | |
| NEWCOMBE | Richard and Henry | | | | | | | |
| NEWSOME | Joseph | | | | | | | |
| NEWTON | George, Mary, George Sarah, and Matilda | | | | | |
| NICHOLSON | James and Sarah | | | | | | | |
| O'BRIEN | Christopher and Ellen | | | | | | |
| OLDFIELD | Edwin | | | | | | | |
| PAIN | William, Charlotte, William, Charles, and Hannah | | | | |
| PARDON | William | | | | | | | |
| PASSMORE | William | | | | | | | |
| PATSKEY | Harriett and Isabella | | | | | | | |
| PEARSON | Harry, Jane, and Mary | | | | | | |
| PEMAHAN ?? | Robert, Mary, Henry, and Robert | | | | | |
| PHILIPS | Thomas and Lydia | | | | | | | |
| PILGRIM | Samuel | | | | | | | |
| PINGELEY | William | | | | | | | |
| PONSFORD | William, Emma, William, and Lucy | | | | | |
| PROCTOR | William | | | | | | | |
| PROCTOR | Mary | | | | | | | |
| RANGER | George | | | | | | | |
| RIDGEWAY | Henry | | | | | | | |
| ROBERTSON | C A | | | | | | | |
| ROBINSON | Cecillia, and Ellen | | | | | | | |
| ROBINSON | John | | | | | | | |
| RODGERS | James and Mary | | | | | | | |
| SCHOLEZ | Charles and Helen | | | | | | | |
| SEED | James and Sarah | | | | | | | |
| SEED | Thomas | | | | | | | |
| SHADLOW | Benjamin, Anne, W Henry and Frank | | | | | |
| SHAW | Thos and Rachael | | | | | | | |
| SHORT | William, Mary Ann, Ellen and William C | | | | | |
| SIMPSON | Esther, Charlotte, Martha, and Joseph | | | | | |
| SMITH | John and Charlotte | | | | | | | |
| SMITH | Young, Thomas, Esther, John, Charlotte, Jane and William | | | |
| SMITH | Sarah and Thomas | | | | | | | |
| STANLEY | John, William, and Mary | | | | | | |
| STEBBINGS | William | | | | | | | |
| STEVENS | Caroline | | | | | | | |
| SUM | James, Susan, and William | | | | | | |
| SUMMERSET | Henry and Rose | | | | | | | |
| TAYLOR | James R | | | | | | | |
| TIERNON | Bridget and Catherine | | | | | | |
| TIVION | Patrick | | | | | | | |
| TRADE | John | | | | | | | |
| TUCKER | George and Elizabeth | | | | | | |
| TUCKER | Sarah and Elizabeth | | | | | | | |
| TURNER | John | | | | | | | |
| TURNER | Mary | | | | | | | |
| WADE | John and William | | | | | | | |
| WADE | Henry, Eliza, George, and Eliza | | | | | | |
| WADSWORTH | Robert, Mary, William, Mary, Annie, David, Elizabeth, and Emily | | | |
| WAGGETT | James | | | | | | | |
| WALDRON | Thomas, Jane, Sophia, Mary, and Thomas | | | | | |
| WATTS | William, Emma, and Jane | | | | | | |
| WESTHEAD | James, Joseph, Benjamin, and Emma | | | | | |
| WHITE | William, Mary, George, Mary, Eliza, and William | | | | |
| WHITEHEAD | David, Martha, Mary, Susannah, John, and Sarah | | | | |
| WIGGS | William and Sarah | | | | | | | |
| WILLIAMS | William and Martha | | | | | | | |
| WILSON | Thomas, Jane, George, Alice, Ada Jane, and Lelitia | | | | |
| WILSON | Isaac, Catherine, Mary Jane, and Catherine | | | | | |
| WORTHINGTON | Richard, Harriett, and Henry | | | | | | |
| WRIGHT | Thomas A | | | | | | | |
| WRIGHT | Annie and Annie | | | | | | | |
| WYKES | Joseph | | | | | | | |
| YOUNG | David and Cecilia | | | | | | | |
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