Cambridge boat race. He possessed the “mens sana in corpore sano,” and, as Mr. Gisborne said of him, he almost delighted in danger and privation. His thorough knowledge of their language enabled him to gain a great influence over the Maoris.
The Bishop officiated on the following Sunday. Dean Jacobs was present at the service, which was held in the loft above one of the Canterbury Association’s goods stores. The loft was reached by a ladder, and the seating accommodation was provided by planks resting on sugar barrels. The Bishop only remained four days in Lyttelton, and on January 7, after addressing a meeting of colonists, he set sail in his schooner for the Chatham Islands, Otago and the Auckland Islands, but arranged to return in February to meet Dr. Jackson, the Bishop-designate.
On Saturday, January 11, 1851, appeared the first (weekly) number of the “Lyttelton Times,” a journal which has shared the fortunes and fought the battles of the Canterbury Settlement up to the present date. Mr. FitzGerald very ably filled the position of editor, and Mr. Shrimpton, an Oxford printer, took charge of the mechanical department.
The “Lyttelton Times” became at once an important part of the young settlement’s institutions. “As long as there is but one public journal in a colony,” said the introductory leading article, “we hold it to be the duty of the editor to avoid, above all things, making it exclusively the organ of any particular party. He ought so far to consult the public good as to make his journal a means for enabling parties or individuals to lay their views before their fellow-countrymen, and his columns ought to be equally and liberally open to all. Indeed, a far deeper responsibility lies upon us to give this means of expression to our fellow-colonists, so that our journal may fairly and faithfully represent the mind of the whole community, from the consideration
