Hi Matt (?)   You must have transcribed 1000's of records by now !!!! Do you keep them in one large database? I ask as I'd be interested in knowing what BORTHWICK's you have come across druing your transcribing?   Many thanks Regards Derek in UK --- On Sat, 27/2/10, mattse165 <[email protected]> wrote: From: mattse165 <[email protected]> Subject: [NZ-AUCKLAND] HBH 1896 May 18 2 Ship passenger arrivals To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 27 February, 2010, 22:17 PORT OF NAPIER SHIPPING ARRIVALS. May 16-Wareatea, s.s from Greymouth, R. Puflett, agent. May 16-Kahu s.s., from Wellington. Richardson and Co., agents. May 17- Flora, s.s, from Southern ports. B. Puflett, agent. Passengers- Mesdames: ELLABY, HEWITT and family, BACKHOUSE, RICE and 3 children, and AINSWORTH; Misses: HALL, BATCHELOR |2), SAWTELL, RUSSELL, O'SHEA, WATSON, DWAN, and HUTCHINSON; Messrs: DOUGLAS, FULTON, AINSWORTH, BURNEAU, SPILLANE. BRIIDSON. KELLY, NEALE, PEEL, and PIRIE ; two Sisters of St. JOSEPH 5 steerage. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

SHIPPING NEWS: PORT OF NAPIER Passenger arrivals - Jan. 12 - Te Anau, s.s., from Southern ports. Passengers - Mesdames IRVINE and 3 children, BUTTON and child, and EARP and child; Misses ROBINSON, WATERHOUSE, PERRIN, FAULKNOR, BLACKBURN, and BECK; Messrs HUGS, MOORE, LUXFORD, ROBINSON, and IRVINE; 10 steerage. Passenger departures - Jan. 12 - Te Anau, s.s., for GISBORNE and AUCKLAND. Passengers - Mesdames NOPERS, KENNEDY and 3 children, M'LEAN, and CHAMBERS; Misses EMERSON and Sister of ST. JOSEPH; Messrs WAKELIN, CAMPBELL, WALLACE, NEPERS, CUNEON, RANGI, CRARER, and Inspector EMERSON; 3 steerage.

SHIPPING NEWS: Passenger arrivals -PORT OF NAPIER Jan. 9 - Tasmania, s.s., from Southern ports. Passengers - Misses BENNETT, KEALY, LEATHAM, ?(obliterated), HENN, JERMY, M'LEAN, WHITTALL, ?(obliterated), and WHITTY; Messrs NELSON, DICK, ?(obliterated), BUTCHER, BAXTER, WEBB, WALSHEID, PICKEERING, DUNCAN, WEIR (2), and WHITTY; 12 steerage. Passenger departures - Jan. 9 - Tasmania, s.s., for Northern ports and SYDNEY. Passengers - Mesdames COSGROVE, NEEDHAM and child, DOB SON, O'GILVEY and child, LIMBRICK, CULLEN, and LYONS; Misses Laura DOWN, CARRELL, NIVEN, HYDE, and ROBERTSON; Rev. H. WILLIAMS; Messrs HEATH, PIPER, SIDDELLS, J. NIVEN, M'KIRDY; C. WHITE, KEMPTHORNE, F. KEMPTHORNE, NEWTON (2), WINKLEMANN, ROBERTSON, BARTLEY, ARCH, WALLACE, BRATHWAITE, DOBSON, KING COLLEDGE, O'GILVEY, GASKELL, LIMBRICK, and M'MICHAN; Master HYDE; 38 steerage.

MARRIAGE At St. Saviour's Church, MANGARE, on December 30th, Mr C.H. OLDHAM, second son of Mr Henry OLDHAM, of NAPIER, was married to Miss Laura HENWOOD, of MANGARE, the Rev. M. KIRKBRIDGE officiating.

SHIPPING NEWS: Passenger arrivals -PORT OF NAPIER Jan. 9 - Tasmania, s.s., from Southern ports. Passengers - Misses BENNETT, KEALY, LEATHAM, ?(obliterated), HENN, JERMY, M'LEAN, WHITTALL, ?(obliterated), and WHITTY; Messrs NELSON, DICK, ?(obliterated), BUTCHER, BAXTER, WEBB, WALSHEID, PICKEERING, DUNCAN, WEIR (2), and WHITTY; 12 steerage. Passenger departures - Jan. 9 - Tasmania, s.s., for Northern ports and SYDNEY. Passengers - Mesdames COSGROVE, NEEDHAM and child, DOB SON, O'GILVEY and child, LIMBRICK, CULLEN, and LYONS; Misses Laura DOWN, CARRELL, NIVEN, HYDE, and ROBERTSON; Rev. H. WILLIAMS; Messrs HEATH, PIPER, SIDDELLS, J. NIVEN, M'KIRDY; C. WHITE, KEMPTHORNE, F. KEMPTHORNE, NEWTON (2), WINKLEMANN, ROBERTSON, BARTLEY, ARCH, WALLACE, BRATHWAITE, DOBSON, KING COLLEDGE, O'GILVEY, GASKELL, LIMBRICK, and M'MICHAN; Master HYDE; 38 steerage.

This newspaper issue was published but no copy is available.

HBH 1896 May 13 2 SHIPPING PORT OF NAPIER NO INWARD OR OUTWARD SHIPPING PORT OF NAPIER

HBH 1896 May 13 2 TASKER SYDNEY-Tuesday Mr TASKER, chief mate of the barquentine Rio from Napier, was knocked overboard during the voyage while slackening the mizzen-sheet and drowned.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING. Sydney, Tuesday. Arrived- Mararoa from Wellington. Auckland, Tuesday. The s.s. Takapuna came off the ground at Manakau last night, and left this morning at 9 o'clock for New Plymouth and Wellington. Sailed at 2.30- Tarawera for southern ports. Passengers for Napier-Miss MORGAN Messrs LOCKE, FIDLER, LOVELL; 3 steerage

This is an interesting account of ship life and gives an insight into what some settlers and crew managed to do when traveling or immigrating-Elaine GARDENING ON BOARD SHIP Mowhan The ship Mowhan, on leaving Belfast for the Columbia river, United States, took on board as ballast 2000 tons of Irish soil, which, when levelled off, made quite a stretch of ground, and, as the soil of Ireland is proverbially fertile the ship's company proceeded to put it to good use by planting a stock of cabbages, leeks, peas, beans, and so on in it. The seeds came up alright, and the plants flourished finely, and, when the ship was in the tropics, grew with great rapidity. The crew and the ship's apprentices amused themselves by weeding and cultivating the plants, and all had green vegetables to their heart's content. As they came round the Horn the garden was replanted, and by the time they reached the equator everything was a-bloom, and all the hands feasted on freshly gathered vegetables daily. The only drawbacks in the garden were the weeds, which grow so rapidly that they could hardly be kept down, and the drove of pigs which wore kept in the farmyard attachment, on several occasions, when the ship was bucking into a nor'-easter and lolling heavily, broke out of bounds and made serious inroads on the garden. The last pig was killed and served up with green vegetables just before the Mowhan entered the Columbia river. On the arrival of the Mowhan at Portland, U.S.A., the Irish soil was discharged on the wharf, and piled up neatly, as that any exiled patriot who desired a bit of the "ould sod "could be accommodated.- All of which is a very American slory indeed.

SHOOTING A GIRL AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, Monday. On Saturday night about 10 o'clock an exciting episode took place in O'Connell street. A young man named Henry Vincent MARTIN, an engraver, who has an upstairs room in High-Street where he resided, has been of late developing sundry eccentricities, which were not paid much attention to, as he had been formerly, it is stated, in an asylum for a short time. At the above hour Charles JOHNSON, head storeman and caretaker at Messrs BROWN and CAMPBELL'S, went out to make a purchase in Shortland-street, and Mrs JOHNSON and two daughters went out to the street date to wait for him. While there they heard a noise proceeding from MARTIN'S back room, which overlooks a vacant allotment at the rear, and commands a clear view of O'Connell street and of JOHNSON'S residence. They crossed the street, looked over the fence, end saw Martin's room window was half open, and that he was walking up and down talking to himself and gesticulating. Mrs JOHNSON made some remark as to his strange conduct, when one of the daughters (Maude) seeing the flash of a pistol shot, called out "run"! he's going to shoot." They turned to run, when Edith WILLIAMS, step-daughter of JOHNSON, in turning, called out that she was hit. She limped across the street to her father's house and fainted. She stated that she had been shot in the calf of the leg, a second pistol shot being fired in close succession. Detective GRACE, after vainly asking admittance from MARTIN, and stating his mission, at last burst the door in. Detective GRACE and two officers who assisted him at once secured MARTIN, looking round; they found a revolver taken to pieces, and some cartridges. Beside them was also a tin of cartridges. MARTIN was taken to the lock-up and charged with shooting with intent to kill. MARTIN, it is understood, made a statement to the effect that his revolver was clogged, and that in trying to clean two chambers the pistol went off accidentally, It was fortunate that the bullet struck the fencing first, as it was thereby deflected and partly spent in force, but it went into the flesh part of the calf of Miss WILLIAMS'S leg at one side and passed out at the other. The young lady is progressing favorably. MARTIN is said to be well connected, and to have a brother residing in Dunedin, He appeared at Court to-day charged with shooting Edith WILLIAMS through the calf of the leg. Accused, who said be was afflicted with religious mania, and had been in an asylum previously, did not know the girl. The defence is that the shooting was accidental. The case was adjourned.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING. Sydney, Monday, sailed- Alameda, for San Francisco via Auckland. Auckland, Monday. Arrived, at 11 a.m.- Tarawera, from Sydney. Passengers for Napior-Two steerage. Wellington, Monday. The Mariposa, with the English mails to 18th April, left San Francisco on the 30th April, the contract date. The Monowai, with the colonial mails to 18th April, arrived at San Francisco on the 9th May, two days late. The Gothic left Cape Town on Friday evening for Hobart aud Wellington. Arrived- Hauroto. from Sydney, with 9 passengers.

A NEWSPAPER MAN ASSAULTED. Auckland, Monday. A fracas occurred in Queen street on Saturday evening between Mr G. H. POWLEY, the well-known shirt manufacturer, and Mr W. J. GEDDIS, one of the proprietors of the Observer. It appears Mr GEDDIS and his brother (Mr J. M. GEDDIS) was walking up Queen-street, as Mr POWLEY, who was accompanied by Mrs POWLEY, was coming out of Mr SAMUELS' cutlery establishment. The two parties accidentally met, and Mr POWLEY, deeming himself aggrieved at a paragraph which had appeared in the Observer, took his stick and struck Mr W. J, GEDDIS four blows about the shoulders. While they were being administered, Mr GEDDIS endeavored to protect himself, and in doing so got struck on the hands, and his nose also bled. Mr J. M, GEDDIS, with his stick or umbrella, warded off one blow from his brother, and instead some article on one of Mr GOODSON'S outside stands got smashed. Mr POWLEY was held for a short time to see if a policeman could be got, but as none turned up he was released, and went away quietly and was not molested by anyone. Subsequently a policeman arrived, but as he bad not witnessed the assault he left the respective parties to their own devices. It is understood the affair will be ventilated by legal proceedings

PORT OF NAPIER 11th - Dingadee s.s. for N orthern ports. Passengers: Messrs SHRIMPTON and WILLIAMS (2) 3 steerage

CHANGES IN THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT. Wellington, Saturday. The .following staff changes have been made by the Minister of Railways:- Mr H. BAXTER, goods agent at Christchurch, to be Working Railways Audit Inspector, vice Mr WALLNOTT (resigned); Mr J.ASHLEY, stationmaster at Lyttelton, to be goods agent at Christchurch; Mr J. C. M'INTYRE, stationmaster at Timaru, to be stationmaster at Lyttelton; Mr C. A. MARCUS, stationmaster at Wanganui, to be stationmaster at Timaru; Mr E. M'KENNA, stationmaster at Palmerston North, to be stationmaster at Wanganui; Mr W BOWLES, chief relieving officer of the Christchurch sectlon, to be stationmaster at Palmeraton North; Mr T. J. BROWNELL traffic inspector at Dunedin, to be chief relieving officer of the Chrlstchurch section; Mr J.M'DONALD, stationmaster at Huntley, to be traffic inspector at Dunedin; Mr C. PEACH, assistant relieving officer at Auckland, to be stationmaster at Huntley; Mr R. HISLOP, stationmaster at Mosgiel, to be stationmaster at Clinton; Mr H. C. SMITH, stationmaster at Featherston, to be stationmaster at Mosgiel; Mr G. G. WELLSTED, stationmaster at Lumsden, to be statlonmaster at Featherston; Mr T ALDRLDGE, stationmaster at Springifield, to be stationmaster at Lumsden; Mr G. ANDREWS, stationmaster at Waitotara, to be stailonmaster at Springfield; Mr J. L., MORGAN, clerk at Christchurch, to be stationmaster at Waitotara; Mr H. R. BELL, stationmaster at Paeroa, to be clerk of district traffic manager's office at Auckland; Mr J. WOODBURY, clerk at Lyttleton, to be stationmaster at Paetoa.

HBH 1896 May 12 2 A rough passage A ROUGH PASSAGE. The Norwegian barque Coronae which has arrived at Melbourne from Mauritius, reports having had a trying experience during a hurricane which raged on the 8th ultimo. The wheel chains broke and the barque for a time was unmanageable, a fearful sea running, and the vessel greatly handicapped by the overpress of canvas. The cargo of sugar shifted and several deck spars breaking adrift from the lashings, smashed about the deck, doing a considerable amount of damage. Ultimately the vessel was got under control and arrived safely at Melbourne.

HBH 1896 May 12 2 Ship passengers arrival Port of Napier 11th-Dingadee s.s. from Wellington-R. PUFLETT agent Passengers: Misses: SCOTT, HALPIN, BROWNAY Mr NORMAN 2 steerage.

HBH 1896 May 11 2 Ship passenger arrivals PORT OF NAPIER 10th-Waihora s.s. from Southern ports.R. PUFLETT, agent Passengers: Mesdames: YOUNG, GLENDINNING, COOPER Misses: CROMPTON, TONSON, CRERAR Messrs: HEWETT, INOTSON, BURRIDGE (2), FISCHER, HARRIS, COOPER, FRASER, BROUGHTON, MILBOURNE, THOMPSON; six steerage 10th-Flora s.s. from Northern ports R. PUFLETT, agent Passengers: Mesdames: GRIFFITHS, M'ROBERTS, COLEMAN, WRIGHT Misses: WATT (2), WILLAN, HARDING (2) Messrs: HORNE, WHITE, HURLE, BURRIDGE, COLEMAN, GRIFFITHS, WRIGHT, ARLEY, COLLEDGE, HARDING, HEPBURN, HENDERSON Rev. AGAR; 12 steerage

HBH 1896 May 11 2 Ship passenger departures PORT OF NAPIER 9th-Kate Tatham, barque for Westport. TAIT and MILLS, agents 10th-Waihora s.s. for Northern ports and Sydney-R PUFLETT agent Passengers: Mesdames: PURDY, BALFOUR and child, TUKE, SOMERVILLE, FENWICKE, PARSONS Misses: FULLER, PEACOCK, PORTER, CULLEN, TODD, MATTHEWS Messrs: PURDY, BALFOUR, SOMERVILLE, TUKE, HUNTER, HIBELL, HALL, RAVENHILL, SMITH, HAIG, OLIVER, STUBBS, DUCKWORTH, FENWICKE, F W WILLIAMS, CLARKE, HOSKINGS, PARSONS; 11 steerage. 10th-Flora s.s. for Southern ports-R PUFLETT, agent Passengers: Mesdames: WARD, YOUNG, PREBBLE Misses: HUBCROFT, DAVIS, PREBBLE Messrs: M'CLURE, MURRAY; six steerage.

No Inward or outward shipping at Port of NAPIER TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING. Melbourne Sailed-Wakatipu, for the Bluff, Auckland, Friday. Sailed - Flora, for Southern ports. Passengers - Mesdames: GARDINER, M'LEAN, and ROBERTS ; Misses WATTS (2) Messrs BURRIDGE, HURLE, and M'LEAN (2) ; 4 Steerage.