ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XI. 
" Matches for one pound a side, distance one mile — v^ ^, 
♦' Mr. C. Von Alzdorf 's bk. g. Black Billy beat Mr, Machattie's 
bay pony. 
" Mr. Lyon's cart-horse beat Mr. Virtue's cart-horse. 
" Match for five pounds a side. One mile. 
" Colonel Wakefield's eh. g. Beau beat Mr. Virtue's bay mare.** 
About thirty gentlemen on horseback followed in 
procession behind the ladies' cart on the road to town 
in the afternoon; and we closed the day with a race- 
dinner at Barrett's hotel. 
Early in November, news was brought of the arrival 
of two ships, containing 561 emigrants from England, 
at Auckland. These were the first vessels that had 
come from England direct to the north, except one 
which brought about thirty immigrants to Manukau 
for the Scotch Company just before Captain Symonds's 
death. As no farming was going on, and there were 
therefore no employers among the settlers, the Govern- 
ment had to engage them temporarily, at very low wages. 
The Auckland ' Times' now appeared, printed by 
a mangle, and with capital K's instead of C's. The 
Acting Governor had quarrelled with the editor, and 
forbidden the use of the Government printing-press, 
which was the only one there, and some of the type. 
It was also said that he had despatched the Government 
printer to buy up the apparatus of the Bay of Islands 
newspaper, in order to complete the smothering of the 
press in his own district. The mangled paper still 
scolded these settlements violently ; but this was not 
surprising, as the editor was the brother-in-law of the 
Rev. J. F. Churton, who had deserted his flock in their 
early struggles. 
The only other intelligence was, that 100 land- 
claims had been settled in the north, up to the 24th 
of August. 
The industrious mechanics who had been outraged 
