^1^ ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XIV. 
effect a removal, now sprang from a neat wooden j)rint- 
ing office under the additional title of the " Britannia 
** Spectator." 
The Company's barque Brougham had been employed 
in transporting the more bulky articles across the har- 
bour. Among these was the iron safe of the bank, 
which had arrived in the Glenbervie, containing the 
specie and notes which were to form the currency of 
the settlement . Mr. John Smith, the manager, showed 
great anxiety during the transit of the safe, and having, 
been observed by the natives sitting upon its summit 
as it lay on the deck, acquired from them the title of 
"Jacky Box," by which he was ever afterwards known 
among all shades of colonists. 
Colonel Wakefield was busy, like the rest, getting 
up a town residence. A swampy clay mound of some 
six acres in extent had been reserved for public purposes 
near Barrett's hotel ; and on a spot near the summit 
of this some labourers were busy digging the holes for 
the foundation-piles. He had bought a house brought 
from England in frame from a colonist who hesitated 
about setting it up for himself ; and proposed, by the 
addition of a veranda and kitchen, to make it a tolera- 
bly comfortable dwelling. The holes filled with water 
as fast as they were dug ; and I remember ridiculing 
the idea of the location ever becoming tenable. Epuni, 
too, who had once tried a crop of potatoes on the very 
spot, declared that it was good for nothing. A person 
who should now walk up the hard drive, and inspect the 
lawn of rye-grass and clover, or the fertile garden near 
the house, with its geraniums grown into hedges, could 
form no idea of what the place was before it was 
drained by careful cultivation. 
The state of the community was at this time exceed- 
ingly cheerful. All the labour of the settlement was 
