and editor, a reporter, pens, ink and paper, and a determined resolution to start a journal for the enlightened public of New Zealand, at the very earliest opportunity.
“It is certainly not a matter of astonishment that the Canterbury settlers should settle upon an organ half an hour after they were fortunate enough to reach a distant home; but it is really worthy of remark and admiration that all the conditions of a highly influential journal should present itself in an instant to an antipodean contemporary on a desert coast, quite as readily as to the journalist in the centre of this ever busy city. It is difficult to glance at the first number of the ‘Lyttelton Times,’ now before us, and associate its existence with a community not a month old. So far from being ashamed at our namesake, we are positively proud of his acquaintance, and envious of his power. If the editor can create so much cut of nothing, what would he make of such a breeding heap as this of London?”
This article was reproduced in the “Lyttelton Times” of November 22, 1851. The delay gives some idea of the time occupied in the conveyance of mails in those early days.
The next event of importance was the arrival on February 7, of Dr. Thomas Jackson, the Bishop-designate of the Canterbury Settlement, with his wife and family. Dr Jackson arrived in the “Castle Eden” with 200 more colonists. He had been selected by the Canterbury Association as its first Bishop, and had assisted the cause of the Association in England. It had been intended that he should have been consecrated before sailing, but as explained by Lord Lyttelton (at the farewell banquet on beard the “Randolph”), an unforeseen obstacle had been encountered. (Canterbury Papers, p. 177):—
“The existing diocese of New Zealand was consecrated some years ago, and was founded on terms so unusually large, and giving most complete possession
