voyage. Soon after his arrival, Mr. Jacobs established both the College and Grammar School in two rooms in the Immigration Barracks at Lyttelton. In the following year, April, 1862, the establishment was removed to Christchurch, to a small building at the corner of Lichfield Street and Oxford Terrace, opposite the site of St. Michael’s Church. Christ’s College, as at present constituted, was founded by the Church Property Trustees by Deed of Foundation, dated May 21, 1855, and endowed with one-fifth of the Town and Rural Lands recently conveyed to them by the Canterbury Association through its Agent, Mr. Henry Sewell. The Deed provided that the Bishop of Christchurch should be ex officio Warden of the College. It also appointed, as sub-Warden, the Rev. Henry Jacobs, M.A., and ten Fellows. There being no Bishop of Christchurch at the time, Mr. Jacobs, as sub-Warden, was the first head of Christ’s College.
The Provincial Council passed an Ordinance (June 28, 1855) incorporating Christ’s College in terms of the Deed of Foundation, and at a later session (October 23), authorised the Superintendent (himself one of the Fellows of the College) to convey, not exceeding ten acres of the Government Domain as a site for the College.
It may not be generally known that the selection of the present site was attributable to the foresight of Mr. Henry Sewell. Bishop Selwyn disapproved of the Cathedral Square site for the College. He wanted a country site—removed from the turmoil of the city, and at one time, if was suggested that the College should be placed near the Heathcote Ferry. The actual selection was made on June 8, 1853. It so happened that Mr. Sewell dined that day with Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs at their school-house. There were present also the Rev. R. B. Paul and Mr. T. Cass, the chief surveyor. The four—the Revs. Jacobs and Paul, and. Messrs. T. Cass and Sewell, formed themselves into a sort of selection committee. Mr. Paul seems to have favoured the old pro-
