A US TRALASIA ILL US TRA 7 7:7 A 



represented by Mr. Kendall. The expedition arrived in the Hauraki Gulf in 1826, 

 reached the Bay of Islands on the 26th of October of that year, and proceeded thence 

 to Hokianga, where a purchase of land was made by Captain Herd at a place known 

 to the present day as Herd's Point. A war-dance at one of the places visited by the 

 Rosanna was said to have terrified the colonists, who insisted on being carried back to 

 England, it having been a stipulation between them and the Company before leaving 



the port of departure 

 that they should be re- 

 conveyed to England 

 if they disliked remain- 

 ing in New Zealand ; 

 and of all the emi- 

 grants said to be 

 some sixty in number- 

 only four elected to ' 

 remain in New Zea- 

 land, Messrs. McLean, 

 Nimmo, Gill is and 

 Nesbet. The Rosanna 

 went to Sydney early 

 in the year 1827, 

 where the stores of tile- 

 expedition were sold 

 by public auction, and 

 Captain Herd, and 

 those of the emigrants 

 who felt disposed to 

 do so, returned to En<>- 



O 



land. The cost of the 

 adventure was said to 

 have been twenty 

 thousand pounds. 

 Through the influence 

 of the missionaries who 



esirous of seeing some kind of authority established, thirteen of the chiefs of the 

 Bay of Islands applied in 1831 to King William -IV. for British protection, as the 

 Governors of New South Wales, after the rtgime of Macquarie, no longer regarded 

 ew Zealand as one of the dependencies of the colony, while an Act of George III. 

 stated New Zealand to be a place not within his Majesty's dominions. Representations 

 were about this time forwarded to the Imperial Authorities from the Governor of New 

 South Wales suggesting the appointment of a British Resident; and in the following 

 year Lord Ripon dispatched Mr. James Busby, a civil engineer of New South Wales^ 

 who was then on a visit to England, to fill that position. ff.M.S. Imogcnc was employed 

 to carry him to his Residency, where he arrived on the 5 th of May, 1833, and stationed 





A STAGE FOR A MAORI FESTIVAL. 



