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 Taranaki, thence went to Nelson, from there to Wellington, and arrived in Lyttelton in 1850, shortly before the first four ships. He married a Miss Townsend. He was Health Officer for Lyttelton, also Resident Magistrate and Coroner, positions which he filled with credit for many years.

“Blue Cap,” 1840-50. The man who rejoiced in this title was the head of a gang of three bushrangers. He habitually wore a blue French cap. What his actual name was is unknown. It was this man and his accomplices who stuck up the Greenwood Brothers, and, after having tied them all up securely in their own kitchen, liberated Edward Greenwood, whom they compelled to deliver up to them all the money and valuables in the house. After this feat they set out in a whaleboat to rob Messrs. Deans Brothers. However, the Greenwoods sent a man posthaste to Port Levy, to apprise the whalers stationed there of what had happened. These men immediately manned a boat, and, crossing the bar at Sumner, proceeded up the river to Riccarton, where they arrived in advance of the robbers, whom they passed unknowingly, concealed in a cave. Blue Cap and his rapscallions, evidently also