404 NEW SETTLERS ON THE ISLAND. 
Island, some fit and competent persons. Mr. 
Thomas Rossiter, who was deemed eligible as a 
Schoolmaster and Storekeeper, and who had been 
a successful Master of a Church of England In- 
dustrial School in Hertfordshire, was at the head 
of the party.. He was accompanied by his wife, 
his two children, and his sister. James Darve, 
miller, wheelwright, and smith, with his wife 
and two children, and H. J. Blinman, single 
man, mason and plasterer, made up the number 
of ten. These persons having been appointed 
by Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners, 
sailed from Plymouth in the Palmyra, Feb. 13, 
1859. The passage-money to Sydney was, in 
each case, defrayed from the fund raised by the 
Pitcairn Fund Committee. The whole balance 
of the amount invested has since been placed 
by the Committee in the hands of the Governor, 
for the benefit of the Islanders. 
Mr. Fortescue Moresby, R.N. of the Iris, ac- 
companied Sir William Denison on his visit to 
Norfolk Island. In a letter dated H.M.S. Iris t 
Sydney, Nov. 27, 1857, Mr. Moresby said:— 
" I landed at Norfolk Island on the 25th of 
September, with three other officers : and never, 
indeed, did any man receive a warmer welcome 
than I did ; — much to the wonder of the officers 
who were with me. I was carried back to those 
times when I landed at Pitcairn in company 
with my dear father; and I heartily wished 
him with us, to see the kindly faces around me. 
As Mrs. Selwyn was on the Island, I walked 
up to pay her my respects, and then returned 
to Mr. Nobbs's house, to take some photo- 
