Francis Trask

A Government subsidy was approved for the road in the early 1880s for Nelson City and Waimea County.

[4] Samuel Jickell, AMICE, Nelson City Engineer designed the proposed road and seawall in 1885.

Cecil Nash, a pioneer of the Nelson tobacco industry, is said to have made the concrete blocks near Albion Wharf.

Twenty convicts from Shelbourne Street Goal were marched each morning to Rocks Road.

Waimea County was responsible for work up to its boundary at Magazine point (so named for the cache of explosives kept in a cave there).

Substantial stanchions and chains were installed along the western section of the wall-top with money donated by John Tinline, a pioneer settler, and Mr Tyler, an Englishman, by early 1898.

Queens Gardens are located to the east of the city centre within a detached residual bend of the Maitai River known as the 'Eel Pond'.

In 1887, Trask suggested that for Nelson's commemoration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee a garden be created.

A competition to design the gardens was won by Antequil F. T. Somerville, whose design retained the pond much in its existing shape, and featured a wooded, formal perimeter with avenues of trees and shrubs, and a more formal and open central axis for promenading and civic functions.

The celebrations lasted a week and included a church service and parade attended by Prime Minister Seddon.

A dinner for 'old settlers', a ball for a select 300, and a fair at Trafalgar Park where 5,000 people turned out to enjoy sideshows, a merry-go-round, bands and plenty of food and beer were held.

It is thought the ship's Captain gave them to the Mayor of the time, thanking the community for the care of the crew and himself.

[8][9] The ship's Captain and part owner, Arnold, tendered refloating the vessel through Mr Poynter, a solicitor, at Nelson.

In February 1906, during the Nelson Carnival, one of the cannons was removed as a prank from outside his house and later recovered by the Police.

[13] Their last owner, William David Stoney Johnston, bequeathed them to Nelson City Council when he died in 1999.