Emigration Free Passage Notice
FREE PASSAGE
EMIGRATION to NEW ZEALAND.
The Directors of the New Zealand Company hereby give notice that they are ready to receive applications for a Free Passage to their FIRST and PRINCIPAL SETTLEMENT, from Mechanics, Gardeners, and Agricultural Labourers, being married, and not exceeding 30 years of age. Strict inquiry will be made as to qualifications and character. The Company's Emigrant Ships will sail from England early in September next.
Further particulars and printed forms of application may be obtained at the Company's Offices.
By order of the Directors, JOHN WARD, Secretary.
No. 1 AdamStreet, Adelphi, June 15, 1839.
About the Conflict
The Conflict, when twenty years' fron the stocks, was chartered by the Shaw Savill, Co., and made two very fast passages to New Zealand. She was a full-rigged ship of 1171 tons, built at Liverpool in 1855. She made her first voyage to the Dominion in 1874, bringing out 450 immigrants. She sailed from Gravesend on this occasion, on May 12, and arrived at Wellington on August 7, 1874, making the passage in 80 days.
The Conflict, the following year, sailed from Belfast with 271 immigrants on November 4, 1875, and arrived at Lyttleton on January 29, 1876. From December 29 to January 6, both days inclusive, the ship ran a distance of 2423 miles, averaging over eleven knots. Captain Hardy was in command on each voyage. The celebrated ship, Crusader, sailed from London on October 31, and the Otaki on November 1 of the same year. This was a contest between these two ships as they sailed from the docks withina few hours of each other, and arrived at Lyttleton on the same day, but neither made a fast passage as they did not arrive at Lyttleton until February 8, a rather lengthy passage of 99 days. The Conflict, which sailed on November 4, three days after the Crusader and Otaki, arrived at Lyttleton on January 29, making the run in 87 days, and 82 land to land. The ship encountered a furious gale in the Bay of Biscay during which she lost her jib boom, and from the 8th to the 11th of the same month another gale raged, when the fore and mizzen topsails were carried away. The Conflict was 31 days out when the Equator was crossed. She passedthe meridian of the Cape on December 4, and was in sight of the Snares on the 30th.
Writing about Forest
'Having walked through the primeval forest, I sadden at its passing yet gladden when I see a smiling farm.
Lost is the sense of noiseless sweet escape,
When the feet tread where quiet shadows drape.
The forest versus the settler and the bushwacker. The needs of man were urgent and a thousand years' growth fell down before the conservationist could call for more thought amid destruction. But the bushwacker was not a vandal; he was another of the great working-class athletes of the colonial days whose right to live was hard earned. The bushwacker loved the bush he was hired to destroy. I have heard him talk of the glories of the forest he cut down.
For each man kills the thing he loves.
How much of life is paradox.'
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