Hi, James Dent is my great great great grandfather. I believe He and his wife travelled to New Zealand aboard the Golconda Ship in 1862 "http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/go..." They settled in Nelson and then in a farming area known as Lauriston. There is an article about james in the cyclopedia of New Zealand which was published in 1903. "http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d6-..."
Hope this helps.