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After discharging and loading, Capt. Bone sailed again in 1881, and finished up another fine run to Auckland. the Rakaia left London on May 13 with saloon and steerage passengers, mainly married couples, destined for Vesey Stewart's settlement at Te Puke, but only finally left the Lizard behind o...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
By O. N. Gillespie ( Rly. Publicity photos ) Upon these laden shelves last season's wealth is stored away; The jars are warm with coloured fruits in tempting rich array. The plums are rosy marbles jostling in a scarlet sea, And gooseberries are whiskered globes of green transparency; Peaches and ...
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Arrived Australia 1842; helped to organise many well known Melbourne institutions, was first secretary of the Melbourne Mechanics Institute; taught drawing there and lectured on lithography. His wife conducted a ladies' seminary where Gilbert taught dancing and gave private drawing lessons. Was s...
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
THIS book is largely based on the official records of the New Zealand Dental Corps, more particularly those of the Director of Dental Services and his assistant directors with 2 NZEF in the Middle East and the Pacific . This material is unpublished and is mainly in the form of reports and corresp...
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Since this has been a mobile war, a war of mechanised movement, the engineers have had to be extra busy. No longer are their tasks confined to mamelon and ravelin, to sap and bay, but, as do their vigorous colleagues, the tanks and the army service corps, they have hurtled along the highways of t...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
In “Myths and Songs from the South Pacific” (1876), the Rev. W. Wyatt Gill beautifully described the beliefs of the natives of Mangaia Island, Cook Group,—one of New Zealand’s South Sea possessions—concerning the departure of the souls of the dead for the mystical regions of Avaiki (Hawaiki). The...
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
In the early grey of the following morning the Captain s boat, with the exploring party, came softly alongside the landing place at Motu Arohia, where it had been arranged that Monsieur d'Estrelles should meet them. The moon had but just disappeared, and in less than half an hour day would break....
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Na! i. See! Behold! Na; An affixed particle in possessive pronouns, 3d pers. sing. number . (See Gram.) Prep . Of. Proper name. Nádi, s. Proper name. Náhe náhe, v.n. Separating.
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
In each of these cases, the names of claimants, and the names of the proposed trustees, were submitted to the Court. There were no objections, and the usual orders were made.
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
There shall also be entered on the register all forfeitures of licenses, disqualifications of premises, records of convictions, and other matters relating to the licenses on the register. Every Clerk of a Licensing Committee shall, on request, forthwith transmit extracts from any such register of...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Lost with all Hands. Considering the number of voyages that were made round the stormy Horn in the old sailing ship days the New Zealand trade was singularly free from disasters. Saddest of all epitaphs for a gallant ship is that of "missing." There is something so ominous and mysterious about it...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Collision in the Channel—Run Down by Steamer—Seventy Lives Lost. A ship by which many prominent early settlers came out to New Zealand was the Josephine Willis , a brand new vessel of 1000 tons, that afterwards met with a tragic end in the English Channel. She sailed under the flag of Willis, Gan...
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
The Regiment's Baptism of Fire. On the afternoon of the 24th January, 1915, orders were received that the New Zealand Infantry Brigade was to proceed to the Suez Canal, to assist the garrison of Indian troops in resisting a threatened attack on the Canal by the Turkish Column, reported by the Fly...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
the type used throughout the series is Aldine Bembo which was revived for monotype from a rare book printed by aldus in 1495 * the text is set in 12 point on a body of 14 point
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
IN the months which followed the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal , the main concern of the American Command in the South Pacific was to build up sufficient forces to carry out the operations which were planned against the northern Solomons and New Britain . During the period the strength of th...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
No. 20 (Fighter) Squadron flew in from Guadalcanal on 26 October to be based on No. 3 Servicing Unit . The servicing personnel were still engaged in camp construction and their technical equipment was not yet unpacked, but despite difficulties the page 269 squadron started operations almost immed...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
ON 9 April XVIII Corps (General Böhme) reached Salonika 1 and was ordered to attack the Aliakmon line. Strong patrols moved out towards Edhessa , Veroia (‘main axis of advance’) and Katerini , but the swift advance of XXXX Corps (General Stumme) from Yugoslavia through the Klidhi Pass forced the ...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
“The Great Refusal” was published in London in 1890, with the signature “Vindex.” The author sent a copy of it by post to General Gordon's sister. She promptly wrote to the publishers: “Will you kindly convey my compliments and thanks to the author (Vindex) of the pamphlet entitled ‘The Great Ref...
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New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
[i roto i te reo Māori] Formerly, the punishment inflicted on a person guilty of some of the Crimes enumerated in the List of Criminal Offences was transportation of the offender to some other land. Lately, the Law has been altered in this respect; transportation of criminals has been discontinue...
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