200 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. VII. 
working with their retinue of labourers at putting 
their goods and chattels into some order and security. 
Three gentlemen, whom I was much pleased to see 
again in New Zealand, had formed themselves into a 
commercial firm, and had brought with them, among 
other things, the complete machinery of a steam-engine 
of twenty horse power, adapted for sawing or flour 
mills. These were Mr. Edward Betts Hopper, of 
Dover, Mr. Henry William Petre, and Mr. Francis 
Alexander Molesworth. They were as busy as the 
rest, landing and arranging their goods. At high 
water, the ships' long-boats and private cargo-boats 
brought quantities of goods up to the owners' locations ; 
the labourers and masters worked altogether at the 
casks, and bales, and other heavy things ; the natives 
lent their willing aid, being very handy in the water, 
and then returned, either to a job at hut-building, or 
to hawk about their pigs and potatoes, which they 
brought in canoes to this quick market. 
I walked some distance along the surveyor's line, 
and made the acquaintances of such of the new-comers 
as I did not already know. Each capitalist appeared to 
have a following of labourers from his own part of the 
country. Cornish miners and agricultural labourers 
had pitched their tents near Mr. Molesworth ; Kentish 
men dwelt near Mr. George Duppa, a little higher up ; 
and many of the Scotch emigrants were collected near 
a point between two reaches of the river, where Mr. 
Dudley Sinclair and Mr. Barton were erecting their 
dwellings. At the latter place Mr. Sinclair's English 
cow was browsing on the shrubs of her newly-adopted 
country. 
Small patches for gardens were already being 
cleared in various spots ; ruddy flaxen-haired children 
were j)laying about near the doors ; find the whole 
