a Passengers' Committee that rendered a Testimonial to the Sevilla's Captain. His name is not on the passenger list published by the Southland Times newspaper, although that List appears to only cover "Assisted" Immigrants. On 28 September 1864, a few weeks after his arrival in New Zealand, he wrote a letter to the Superintendent of the Province of Southland pleading for assistance in finding employment, claiming that "he landed at the Harbour of the Bluff per the Ship Sevilla on the Fourth day of September at which place he expected that, according to promise, he would be renumerated for his services as Chaplain during the voyage, and that certain papers would be delivered to him giving him temporary employment as Land Surveyor – and also the right to draw a sum of money entrusted on the Sixteenth of May last to the Rev. James Smith Minister of Kelso to be transmitted by him through the agency of Messrs Patrick Henderson and Co. of Glasgow. The nonfulfilment of all of these promises has caused very serious inconvenience to him, in so far as it has caused him to be deprived of the means of providing for the requirements of his family on landing, and of expected employment wherewith to maintain them for some time after arriving in the Colony." He was Master of the Caledonian School at Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand from about 1868 to about 1870. He later became schoolmaster at Longbush School, Southland, New Zealand. He regularly contributed poetry to local newspapers such as The Southland Times and Otago Witness. In June 1878 he was appointed the first Secretary and Treasurer of the Southland Education Board. He died on 18 March 1891 aged 76 and is buried at Eastern Cemetery, Invercargill, with his wife Mary who died in 1901 aged 75. The Old Churchyard; The Twa Mice; and Miscellaneous Poems and Songs Printed for John G. Smith in 1862 by R. Stewart, Foot of Horse Market, Kelso. Contents: THE OLD CHURCHARD - Prelude I; Prelude II; Sacred to the Memory of J----- M-----, who died November 6, 18--, aged 10 years; The Paster's Grave, a Tribute to the Memory of the Rev. J----- T-----; The Wanderer's Grave; In Memory of J----- M----- R-----, who died in 1846, aged 21 years; Anabelle, a Reminisence; The Poet's Grave; The Miser's Grave; A Man's Grave; The Grave of a Dorcas, a Tribute