Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 302, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1921 — Page 4

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Juifoma Hails SFitnefl INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Marldian Street. Telephones—Main 3500, New 28-351 MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS, _ (Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Q. Logan Payne Cos. AdTertislns omcei (Kew xsrk, Boston, Payne, Burn* A bmitb. Inc, DOES MAYOR JEWETT dare answer Henry Fleming’s questions? SINCE WHEN did John Ructelshaus become so vitally interested in .aw enforcement? IN OTHER WORDS, Mr. Thomas C. Howe was entered in this cam;Jaign to prevent Ed Robison from beating Shank? THE ONLY THING in that Butler College statement that is likely to oe disputed* Is the declaration that the statement is not political, although t Is signed by Hilton U. Brown, the principal sponsor of Mr. Thomas C. Howe! f Saving 9 Whom? .. A peeuUar and significant feature o? this “Republican" effort to save 'ndianapolls by the nomination of Mr. Thomas C. Howe for mayor is that It is fostered, managed and exploited almost entirely by officeholders, exofficeholders and professional campaign managers. The list of speakers for Mr. Howe reveals Mayor Jewett. Claris Adams, W. P. Evans, Judge James A Collins, Miss Eleanor Barker, the negro Galliard and occasionally a “filler" In the person of a minor officeholder In the Jewett administration. i Mr. Jewett says he is fighting for Howe “in defense of my own admin-; istratlon.” Mr. Adams, It will be recalled, lacked the courage to submit i his name for renomination as prosecutor and became the county manager j of the Ul-£ated campaign of J. W. Fesler for Governor. W. P. Evans was thus permitted to become the nominee for prosecutor and he undoubtedly desires renomlnatlon at the hands of the same crowd that nominated him. . Judge Collins has three times been elected to office by the crowd that now ; Howe and his office-holding ambition Is not yet satiated. Miss Barker has been, and may be yet, a paid employe of the Republican State committee and is one of the leading examples of anew j type—the professional feminine politician. The i*>gro, Galliard, was recently discharged from the position of chief swabber at the Statehouse and is anxious to resume swabbing at the city hall under Mr. Howe. Conspicuous for their absence on the platform this year and in the councils of Mr. Howe are the real citizens of Indianapolis whose interest in politics cannot be connected with a pay check. Conspicuous, also, for their alignment with other candidates than Mr. Howe are men who have helped make Indianapolis the city it is and men whose interest in politics is unselfish. There is, for Caleb S. I Denny, former mayor, and one of the sponsors of Mr. Jewett, who is now j bitterly opposing Mr. Howe. There is also Charles A Bookwalter, former j mayor, and a man whose name Is everlastingly linked with the progress of Indianapolis, doing all in his power to oppose Mr. Howe. It really taxes credulity to believe that two such sturdy and persistent workers for the welfare of this city should be so indifferent to the welfare of the community as to refuse to join in any movement to “save" Indianapolis from a real menace. Among the voters of this city who do not accept their ideas as they are prepared for them by the newspaper of mysterious ownership, the conclusion cannot be otherwise than that the much-talked “saving” of Indianapolis through the nomination of the candidate “selected by thirty-five men” is, in reality a desperate effort to save the easy jobs of a crowd of politicians. In Accord! The Times notes with considerable satisfaction that in reference to the proposed organization of a civic league or council from among the many civic organizations in Indianapolis it is directly in accord with the views of Mayor Charles W. Jewett, as expressed before the Lion Club. Mr. Jewett there told in a manner that indicated considerable experience and thought, the immense benefit that a united effort would be In the fight to accomplish civic projects. And he also subscribed to the belief that to be successful such a civic council as is proposed should give equal representation to all of the civic bodies composing it No one will dispute with Mr. Jewett the remarkable strength and efficiency that comes with united effort There is no room for a difference of opinion as to the advisability of uniting all of Indianapolis’ civic organizations in one council. There is, however, a danger that the strength of such an organization might be curtailed by an ill-advised effort to link It with a sectional name or to constitute it in such a manner as to create the impression, if not the j fact, that one body or another has control over it. If this very proper jealousy of equal rights can be sustained in the organization of a civic council the limit of its-strength will be the limit only of the strength of the whole community. If equal rights for all the component organizations cannot he main tained, then what should be a united effort will start with the insur- | mountable handicap of an unnecessary division. We axe indeed glad to find that in this movement we can agree absolutely with the stand of the mayor for equality in the opportunity to help Indianapolis.

Jewett's ‘Defense? Mayor Charles W. Jewett’s explanation that his participation in the attempt to foist Mr. Thomas C. Howe on the Republican party as a candidate for mayor is due to the necessity of defending his own administration is about the thinnest statement that has yet been made in this campaign. The disproof of it lies in the manner of the mayor's participation, and in the fact that he is not fn any way attempting to answer the critics of his administration. The backroom, Sunday morning conference at which Mayor Jewett instructed his henchmen that Mr. Howe must be nominated was not a defense of the Jewett administration. The attempt on the part of the mayor and his negro cohorts to incite a riot on Indiana avenue when Mr. Shank held his political meeting there was not a measure in defense of his administration. The speech of the mayor in the basement of a negro church to a crowd of negroes assembled under the direction of Rufe Page, negro gambler, was not a defense of the Jewett administration. The employment only of men who would pledge themselves to Howe at the asphalt plant was not a defense of the Jewett administration. The coercion of city employes in the hopes of making them vote for Mr. Howe is not a defense of the Jewett administration. While it is very interesting to note that Mr. Jewett has revised his well-known and oft repeated views that “my administration needs no defense,” it is of exceeding interest to note where he seeks to make the defense. So far in this campaign Mr. Jewett's defense has only been pleaded before the negro voters, and the better element of that race regard his “defense” as plain pandering "to the worst of their color. Self-Preservation The recent quibble of a murderer in Chicago, as to wether he was to hang by sun time or standard time—the latter giving him an extra hour, 13 illustrative of the ever-present instinct of self-preservation. The man was sent into eternity by standard time, and although five murders were proved against him, his nerve so failed at the last minute he was strapped in a chair, apparently unconscious. The action of this man corresponds to the criminal who was allowed a glass of beer before he was hanged. He blew off the foam and alleged as a reason that it was unhealthy. So great are the habits of preserving life, and even property that it takes considerable training of soldiers, for the work of war. Few remember that the love of self preservation is the strongest in nature, because so few have observed emergencies when men act from that motive, but nevertheless It is such. Have not men turned cannibals and are not Chinese today selling children Into lives of slavery for food? Will not a man fight quicker for something to eat than anything else? It is that passion which makes people and indeed animals oear the ills they have rather than fly to those they know not of, for they will cling to life, in misery and great distress when it cannot, be explained why they do, unless it is so fixed in nature. A drowning man grasps at a straw.

WELLINGTON.New Zealand's Capital

By W. D. BOYCE. m — m EL L I NGTON is \ the capitai the \ MF of Dominion of New \ IM> e* A ea^ Its busirg ness Portion lies • Jm-Jffl. on made ground . W M wrested from the j 4 J waters of Port / is reached through / stormy Cook’s j Strait, while Its residential sec--11 o n straggles back from the wa--2 ter and is scattered up among hills so abrupt and steep that a straight climb is impossible and all streets twist and zigzag to get to the various terraces, some of them 700 feet above the sea, upon which the houses are built. Recently suburban towns have been taken inside of the city limits i and greater Wellington now' covers i 1,600 acres of ground and over this | big area is spread a population of j one hundred thousand. Ilavtng visited the city of Auckland, ! the largest In the dominion, when first we lauded in Now Zealand my curiosity as to Wellington had been much aroused for 1 had heard many jibes at the capital. Auckland never has quite forgiven Wellington the fact that the seat of government was taken from Auckland ! to Wellington although that happened ! almost sixty years ago, and the latter , place seems far more appropriate for a capital because of Us central location at the southern end of the North Island and within easy access of all parts or the dominion. Indeed in the motto of Wellington, “Supreme as to situation." is voiced the reason why she will con- j tinue to grow and progress. I have been In England considerably myself and I should have known without being told that the customs of \s c! lington were very much like those or the mother country and it was not j necessary for its people to state with j pride that they were more Rrltlsh than | tiie British themselves. That and the i claim that they have the most cosnio 1 polltan city in the dominion are the! two things which Wellingtoulnris seek to Impress upon the visitor. HISTORY OK CITY DATES HACK TO 18.29. Wellington’s history begins about lsi.r* ; with the arrival of men representing the New Zealand Company, which had a [ scheme for colonization of the country, j The presence at Port Nicholson of a number of traders already had attracted i many rough characters and the better element among the new arrivals soon formed a little government which the crown officials at Auckland, then the j capital, declared was illegal. So troops j were sent down to oust the self appointed I vigilantes and to their surprise were r ! ceived with three amused claor* and the j expected clash did not materialize. For the next year or two the little town was kept exceedingly busy .by hostile j Maoris and it was not until the last i trouble with them was over in 16-Id that ! the settlers began to spread out from |

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WHEN A GIRL MARRIES A New Serial of Young Married Life By Ann Lisls

CHAPTER CXCIX. ‘ , At a little past 10 on the day after my flying trip to visit Betty, I called Virginia and asked her to go with me to make the final selections of rugs and furniture and hangings for our new apartment. I told myself that I waited until so late because I wanted to leave the line clear for Neal. But I knew perfectly well there was another reason. I didn't want to get into an argument with Jim about Virginia, and Tom Mason would think of my bping back In town again. The fnct remained I was back, and so I might as well get ahead on the apartment. I counted on Virginia's good breeding to accept w'hatevcr explanation I chose to offer. “You enme back sooner than yon expected, didn’t you?” was Virginia's entire comment. “Yes, I wasn't needed. And I do so want to get into the new apartment, ’ I replied. “Shall I call for you at eleven?” asked Virginia amiably. “Please, if you can make it so soon,” I replied. And then I fell to dressing in a great hurry, so that I need not keep her waiting. She would know Jim's taste even in bath towels, and her own would prove unfailing all the way from roasting pans to player-pianos. “We ought to gpt Into the apartment by the middle of next week,” I told Virginia as we swung down the avenue in a taxi almost On the dot of 11. “Why are you in such a hurry scurry, Anne?" asked Virginia tolerantly. “Well—there’s no use in paying rent for two places at once” — “I thought that was it,” interrupted Virj?inia smilingly. “Now why should you care so since Jim doesn’t?” “Xt’Aso wasteful. We’re really not getting adkthlng for our money.”

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the narrow strip of beach upon whfch the first houses were built and to make their homes upon the hills encircling the harbor and the gulle.vs between these hills. Wellington’s early days were days of struggle. The very hilly land made the city's growth slow, but Providence took a hand in 1853 with an earthquake which, while It illd much damage, also did a

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llow the capital of New Zealand provides for Its people who wish to use the telephone. This Is one of n string of booth* outside the poxtotfice building, where for a 2 cent piece you can talk to almost every great deal of good, for it dried up a swampy area near the little settlement, raised the whole coust line some and made possible the vast reclamation projects which has added so much to the city's level part.

of the equator. The building stood intact during several small earthquakes which did considerable damage to the public library on a corner Just buck of it.

“You may not be getting anything.” said Virginia thoughtfully. “But you're giving an Impression of prosperity, of success. And in Jim's game that helps tremendously.” ‘‘To be extravagant? To spend money lavishly without any return?” I objected. “Anne, there is a return. I wish I could make you see it. The investors Jim wants to reach are men who have fortunes. When they see Jim spending money the way they do, they think it's because he has money because he .knows how to make it. So they think he'll make it for them, also.” “That doesn’t sound very solid—very conservative, Jeanio. It's Just gambling, isn't it?” “Perhaps,” retorted Virginia. “But it’s all right if it works. Men make fortunes gambling in stocks, and nowadays unless you have a fortune you're Just nobody. You watch that little Cosby woman climb to a place In the best society. She has money; she’ll entertain the best people, and presto! there you are.” “You mean presto—there she Is!” I replied “You know I haven’t a social ambition in my make-up, Jennie I like a home—and home life Kiddies and the country for them to grow up in.” “Perhaps you’re right,” she said at last. “Perhaps there's more happiness that way. Byt Jim doesn” see it. I really don't, either. Perhaps I’d have been happier if I'd been more like you. But .Tim's like me. He and the Cosbys are after the same things. They'll travel together for a while.” “Are you trying to warn me against Valerie Cosby, Jeanie?” I asked. “You’ve dragged—mentioned her twice lu the last few minutes. Did you notice anything last night?" After I had said the words I could have bitten my tongue out. Here I was revealing to Jim's sister that I was Jealous of him —that I didn’t trust him. That

climb a steep grade fthout s mile long and discharge passengers at the various terrace* along the way. At It* extreme top ha* been placed the city's

In other parts of New Zealand you will receive derisive warnings to watch out for two things when you go to Wellington—an earthquake and and big winds. We encountered neither. Now and then, I am informed, there are earth tremors which jar things off the mantle* or rattle the dishes and cause the people to run into the streets as a uiaite,r of preparedness, but it has been

part of the city, Wellington I* the first city of the Dominion In which automatic telephone* ore helnv Inktalled. The telephone line* are owned by (he government and the 11 Larges are very reasonable. long since there was anything that hy any chance might be classified as an earthquake. HAVE Ot T LIVED 1 EAR OE tjl ARES. Welilngtonlans laugh to scorn the warning sounded In other parts of the domluh u against the day when an earthquake will wipe out Wellington as It did San Francisco. The people of tile capital hive outlived their old fear of earthquakes, the fear which for years prevented them from building substantial structures and resulted in a city of small wooden buildings. Today you will find buildings of brick and stone replacing the wooden ones and they arc going higher in the air, although New Zealamlars never hope to erect skyscrapers like those In the United states. Even the government Is going ahead with a big program of construction In order to house Its many departments, now scattered all over the downtown section of the city In all kinds of buildings, You almost require a guide If you are going to visit many governmental departments. for very few Welllngtonlans have any Idea where these departments can he found. The. hills which so surround Wellington that only from each end along the water's edge can It be entered on the level from the back country are no protection against the furious winds which frequently sweet the city. These same winds make the harbor dangerous for ships, which are compelled to anchor In midstream when (he docks are full. The mud at the bottom of the harbor Is treacherous and will not hold even tha biggest anchors In a bad blow. One old sea captain told me that while Wellington's harbor was easy to enter because of its excellently marked channel and tlie half dozen lights which point out the dangerous reefs outside, he never stayed In it with his ship during a storm unless the vessel was securely tied up at. a dock. The city officials of Wellington have

belittled Jim —lt shamed me. For a second, Virginia stiffened visibly. Her Harrison pride was up in arms. Then what 1 liked even less happened. A look of pity blotted all the coldness from her face. And when sho spoke her kindness, together with the way she picked her words, seemed to he forecasting something I didn't even want to think about. “Valerie Cosby is a beautiful woman young and spoiled. She wants admiration, and her husband is delighted when she gets It. So, of course, Jim has to be attentive. But you’re clever, Anne, and young and pertty. If you'll make yourself attractive, dress well and—play the game Jim's way and stop turning over the pennies, there's no doubt, you can hold Jim. Oh, Anne, don't you see? Women throw away love because they think they don’t want it enough to try to keep It. Os course, they're too proud to try.” “Thank you. Virginia," I said gravely. “I see. I’ll stop turning over the peunies. • • • I sec*." “Money buys everything, Anne—don't forget that," cried Virginia, suddenly stiffening to her usual mold. "A man—worthy, respecting—knows how to make it. And a woman—worth loving—at least, the sort of woman who gets love—knows how to spend it. To spend it gracefully.” “I sec,” I said ngnln. Suddenly I wondered if Pat, Dalton had always known how- to make money. (To be Continued.) 1 a. m. Fire Routs Out Family; Causes Alarm Fire of unknown origin drove the family of M. Noetb, 903 South New Jersey street, out of their home at 1 a. m. today, and for n time threatened to spread to other residences in the neighborhood. The (Jamago at the Noeth home is estimated at S3OO. The flames spread to a one-story frame workshop at 600 High street, where damage estimated at 5100 was done. The one-story bnrn owned by Joe Ferman, 906 South New Jersey street, also caught Ore and the lbss was estimated at 530.

botanical garden*, one of the beauty spot*. To the left may be seen one of the zigzag street* that offer traffic the only wuy up the side of the hills.

for several years hfen working on a carefully mapped out plans to have the city limits take. In every foot of the harbor frontage and now the line includes all of the small boroughs or towns surrounding it except one. Iri order that the city might never be cursed with congested districts the entire main portion Is separated from Its suburbs by a belt of forested and unimproved iract. This Is leased for grazing purposes with the provision that the public may have free eeftss to all parts of the belt during the 'daytime. In this belt are the city's rec nation centers, including municipal golf links and tennis courts. LEVEL PORTIONS | HELD FOR BUSINESS. the level area has been saved for business purposes, too, by putting the botanical gardens at the very top of one of the highest hills. If is a beautiful place, reached by an inclined railway operated by cables and affords a splendid view, although there is no one spot on any of the hills from which the whole of Wellington may he seen, for much of it Is concealed in canyons and narrow valleys between the hills Further recreation is to he found in a beautiful tract of 85ii acres called Day's Ray and located across the harbor Wellington is the only city in New Zealand which owns land actually outside the city limits. Wellington owns its street car system, its eleeetrie lights, the water supply and the drainage system, the fire brigade, public libraries. cemeteries, baths, slaughter houses and handles the supply of milk which is served throughout the city. In the city proper are twenty-one miles of street railway, while ofh-rs run to the principal suburbs. One hundred and twenty odd ears are in use constantly and the service is excellent. In few cities of the world is a greater . ffort made to keep the milk supply pure. Wellington buys all milk within a ra ditis of twenty five miles and some from as far as list miles, and no other is permitted to he sold there. The milk not needed f<>r Immediate consumption is (limed Into butter and cheese and sold by the city, which also manufactures and sells he In connection. Aged employes of the city are provided for by a superannuation fund to which they contribute themselves uud to which the state grants a subsidy. The aged and 111 are pensioned and an amount sufficient to cover expenses is given low salaried employes upon the birth of a child. REST MAIN STREET OK DOMINION HERE. Wellington boasts of the best main street tn any city in New Zealand. Eainbdon quay It Is called, and except at one end it is wide. It Is the principal busi ness thoroughfare. Its shop windows are a treat to the passerby, and you will see In them displays that would do credit to many a place several times the size of ihis city. The people who pass you on I.ambdon quay seem to have more of a hus4c and a bustle to them than those in the other three big cities, where life appears to be taken more leisurely. Auckland has its Queen street. Dunedin Its I’rinees street and Christchurch has beautiful Cathedral Square, but Lamb don quay eclipses them all. During the day it is a hive of activity, but at night it Is most quiet. There is no night life in Wellington except for theatergoers, no doubt because the residence districts are on the hills and people do not care for the climb home again if they do come downtown. It is doubtful whether being the capital is doing Wellington very much good today. Certainly It. does not seem to have fared well from the government at the expense of its. three rivals. Its railway station Is far off the beaten track and consists of two ancient wooden buildings which aro very long and very narrow, Until recently the govern meet buildings were scarcely accredit to either the city or the government. Now a big, dignified Parliament house is being completed, huge wooden structures which have housed government offices are being discarded and splendid buildings, some of New Zealand white! marble, aro being erected. Wellington's town hall undoubtedly is the finest l have seen in the dominion , and Is featured hy a great recital hall capable of holding 5,000 persons and t oasting a wonderful organ. The capital is unfortunate in one particular it has no great agricultural district from which to draw. New Zealand depends primarily upon its exporta of wool, meat, hides, butter, cheese, flax, gold and coal for her prosperity

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Jokes about the early milkman fall Hat In New /.(aland, for the milkman, or milk woman, keep about the same hours as every one else and get round to your hack door between 11 a. m. and noon. Tilts is the style of cart used throughout the Dominion for deliveries of ntiik, Ice, bread, groand Wellington holds second place among the ports from which these products are shipped. Her export trade suffered a slump during the war, largely as a result of the curtailment of gold shipments abroad, and sho never has recovered. It is from her imports which Wellington profits most. The central location of the capital makes it the best place from which to distribue goods from other countries throughout the dominion and it is quite likely to retain Its supremacy in this line. Most of the goods from other countries which are reshipped to New Zealand from Australia come into the dominion hy way of Wellington, which also is the one New Zealand port of call of most of the boats from San Francisco and those which come through the Panama Canal. FINANCIAL CENTER OK THE DOMINION. Wellington is the financial center of the Dominion and there are located the headquarters of the six big hanks of New Zealand. Other features of the capital city which struck me as worth recording are the magnificent twenty five-mile drive around the hay, the only crematorium owned by a city in New Zealand, a splendid zoo and the great number of residence supplied with both heat and light from the city-owned plant. There are 5!)3 factories and warehouses, fifty-two churches and schools and eighty-three charitable institutions in Wellington. The climate I found delightful during our stay. I learned that the lowest known temperature was 211 degrees and the highest 88 degrees, while the average is around 55 degrees. The rainfall ! s around fifty inehes annually. The visitor to Wellington who wanders out of the most modern part of the business section into that which was the

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Typical street of New Zealand homes. Typical New Zealand home* in Wellington in the upper photograph. At the extreme right is a corner of the corrugated iron fences which are so popular. Most all r<w>fs are of the same material and generally are original portion of the settlement could castly Imagine that he has been taken in a moment's time to another place. The streets become more narrow au,l more crooked. Frame, one-story buildings which are several decades old are still .tenanted by small shops and side by side with them rise modern office buildings of several stories and built of brick or stone. Fruit stores kept by Chinamen are sandwiched in between more pretentious dry goods stores Both over the small and the large alike are built wooden awnings stretching out over the sidewalk as protection against the frequent showers which pepper down out of an apparently sunshiny sky. At the time when we were there Wellington merchants were making a desperate effort to clear their shelves of goods by widespread price reductions. The explanation was to be found in the imports figures for 1920, which revealed

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oerio* and so on. Tlf Wellington milk supply I* all under tl.e control of the city, which permit* none to he sold except that w filch has been inspected and certified (o hy health official*. The city buys the milk front the farmers ami l‘*t* peddicrs sell It at a fixed price. Next year the city proposes to sell milk itself. that goods valued at more than $100.00n.bliO (one hundred million dollars) had been (lumped into the dominion by way of Wellington’s port. The reason was that in the year following the war orders were taken for goods, but without an}- promise of delivery. The merchants in some instances gave as many as three orders for the same amount of goods. When prices in Europe and America began to go down and shipping to New Zealand became available the manufacturers began filling these orders. As a result many merchants found themselves with a great deal more stock than they could comfortably handle or pay for and were straining themselves to get the money to pay up. Thus we were able to bay American goods for personal use at prices that were lower than was asked by the retailer for the same things in ■the United States. WHARVES MODERN AND l F-TO-DATE. The Wellington wharves necessarily have to be equipped with the most powerful and up-to-date machinery obtainable in order to handle the vast amount of incoming and outgoing goods which pass through the port. It, like other ports of the Dominion, is governed by a harbor board. This board, however, has distinctive powers in that it receives Incoming goods at the ship's side, gives receipts for them and thereafter Is responsible for their delivery to consignees or reshipping on other vessels. With the authority thus centralized there Is not the conflict that would be found if private enterprises were permitted to have a hand in the management of the wharves. It is said that ships are loaded or unloaded with greater speed at Wellington than at any other port in New Zealand. The hoard has full charge of piloting ships in or out of the harbor, but doe3 not make piloting compulsory because

painted red. Oates are ornamental except In the very newest place* and every home, large or small, has a name, which usnally appears on the gate. Frame honses are the rule berause of the fear of earthquakes, although there hasn't been a serious quake in Wellington since 1853. the channel, being dangerous. Is so well marked that a commander can bring his ship in safely without a pilot. That even then there is danger was brought home forcibly to us when, coming in from the South Island on the night boat, we saw at dawn the wreck of a small vessel (lost with all board piled up ou the reefs which have claimed many ships there in days gone by. The harbor might have been investigated earlier and a settlement started there, but its appearance from the outside was so threatening that Captain Cook twice passed it without going in, largely as a result of his belief that it was the mouth of a strait. Almost sixty years later a French explorer tried to got inside the harbor, but becams alarmed at its dangerous appearance and sailed away. Asa matter of fact. It was 1839 before the full possibilities of Port Nicholson were discovered.