sentences:  He then joined the 58th Regiment, and came to New Zealand as an ensign in 1857.He transferred to the 14th Regiment of Foot and came out to Auckland in 1861, serving until 1862.In 1862 he sold his Captain's commission to settle in Hawkes Bay taking up with his brother 31,000 acres of rolling hill country 25 miles west of Napier in Tunanui, part of it later known as Sherenden.