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THE EARLY DAYS OF NEW ZEALAND.

satures of the nine-
teenth century has been the enormo! trides
Great Britain in the direction of

last fifty years has been
speci[...]llions, Even more
rordinary has been the increase in th
e, the revenue, the alth of these cole[...]The navigator’s accounts of New Zealand
re too well known by all readers of his
a[...]de to this voyage
the discoveries of Captain Cook in
the South Seas led to the formation of the
penal settlement in New South Wales, to
which we have already referred. F[...]yage sprang the first colonisation of Aus
tralia.
In 1788 European communication with
New Zealand became frequent by the exten-
sion of the South Sea w: ale fishery to the
New Zealand coast, and the anxiety of com-
mercial me[...]m) between Europeans and natives, was
interrupted in the year 1809 by the massacre
at Whangaroa of the[...]halers and Maoris, which prevented any
settlement in the country, caused the natives *
tobe looked upon as arace of monsters, and q
justified in the eyes of the whalers the eruel-
ties and murde[...]dty the coast had board
nets, and it is said that in the three years
ending 1817, one hundred New Zealanders
were slain by Europeans in the immediate
vieinity of the Bay of Islands. Whenever
they had a chance the natives retali .
Thus; in 1816, the brig Agnes, with fourteen

Ove of the p[...]at era of progr:
to be found in the immortal discove
Watt, Arkwright, the Stephen[...]ry 5;
these combined led up to a ma
sudden change in the material and
life of the people such as histo[...]afforded by this our

lous expandir
colony of New Zealand, founded here fifty
wars ago, whose jubil[...]EW ZEA y men on board, stranded at Poverty and «
New pe Lan, all the crew excepting John Rutherford were a 1
In the year 1788, just a hundred and one = killed an[...]and all the crew were .
convicts with 200 marines in charge of them, killed and eaten except one Europ[...]and the introduction of firearms.
FIRST SETTLERS.
In 1814 the Rev. Samuel Marsden, the
senior chaplain of the colony of New South
Wales, met Hongi Hika, the great Ngapubi s[...]declaration that he protect all mis-
siammrien’ in virtue ae Mr.

and afew women. ‘This was the first Euro-
ean settlement in Australasia, others follow-
ing at intervals; and in 1801 settlement at
New South Wales had increased to about
5500 souls, At[...]ist of such a mixture of
races as is to be found. in America: the
population is mainly composed of English-
speaking people. the year 1839 the in-

crease in the population of ‘the Australasia 7 od
colonies had ae but slight, and New Ze: Marsden, accompanied by Messrs. endall, —
l[...]vered Hall, and King, their wives, several me- -s
in 1642 by Abel Jansen Tasman, the latter 2 chanics,[...]edi
covered by our great navigator, Captain
Cook, in 1769. At first his opinion was that
he had found[...]was only later that he ascertained he
was merely in the wake of an earlier dis-
coverer. © .

There[...]ons were oe
1819; at angaro’,
1823; at Waimate, in 18305

on ia

New Zealand’s Jubilee, 1840-1890.

ni

stations were formed
u Waipa rivers; in 1835 at
Rotorua, at Kawhia, and at
“1839 the mi[...]ed friends and
raduaily European settlers b
erous in the land,
and 1826 one hundred settlers
ently settled in New Zealand
were one hundred white
ed at Kororareka, in the Bay
‘and in 1838 it was the most
resort for whalers in all the South
and its European population
ata tho[...]Beale
U ne oO]
ut was established by the British in
lection with Kororareka it must
gotten that here New Zealznd re-
the first act of official recognition
English Government, though the
jad previously been named in more
| Act of Parliament, and albeit this
took th[...]ever, served still more clearly to fe
pendence of New Zealand. te 1834
to have

urchase, in

orth Island, =

ler a conf d ae if anol
ederation of chief,
R. Bourke, Governor of New
he transmitted to ¢h English
bent & proposal for establishing a
i eee peniend ‘ibes in
Aty, together with other
placing the denne of the[...]ving |
I a and declared to be the “ Nati
lag Of New Zealand,” this flag was hoi
at the Bay of Islan[...]ignif
cance of these facts can have been overlool
in the recent squabble of Wellington in
tion with r n

amation of England’s sovereignty at
of Islands on 29th Janu
place in New Zealand, neither Kororarek
»y far the oldest in point of date, nor §
r band of adventurers at Br[...]HE MAORI IMMIGRATION, —

Amidst some variations in detail, 4
general account given by the natives of
first arrival in the islands constitutes a
ally harmonious narrati[...]hat before the arrival o
Maoris there were no men in the land, ¥
was covered with for Accord:
others,[...]aused by a
i and that they found a
gigantic birds in Aotearoa, as New
uled by them.

‘e is also a general consensus as
names and number of eanoes in whieh
migration was effected, especially wif
gard[...]s given to Sir George Grey
years back, and is now in the Auck
Gallery among th

yed by Hongi Hika in his Rotorua.
and the other.is said to have[...]

in the fastnesses of the
Tainui immigrants
of the Wa[...]the

the sixteenth in d
who landed at Kawhia from the Tainui, and
the genealogies of the principal chiefs whose
me in the ous canoes will

similar period.

foref[...]d by a large number of ex-
nic cones with craters in a more
or less distinct state of preservation, an[...]ry strong
fortresses of this description, varying in
height from 150 to 642 feet, were within six
mile[...]attered
remnants of several tribes which had been in-
dividually all but exterminated in wars by
tribes of other districts, and which thus con-
solidated for mutual protection. Next in
strength was Maungakiekie, now called One
Tree Hill, which in 1720 was the fortress of
the great chief Kiwi, who ruled in the neigh-
bourhood. In 1740 he fell in battle with in-
vaders from Kaipara, and from this time to
the era of colonisation destructive warfare
was kept up in the district almost without
interruption,

Maunga[...]orthern face, the people had their cultiva-
tions in the rich warm scoria soil, Piles of
stone still show the division walls of the
kumara and taro grounds, and in the caves
and crevices of the rock may sti found[...]™
as
- * e

nda
sre, and by him hidden = pended in trenching, terracing, and fencing o*

art

= Cook had a boat’s crew eaten in 1774; Marion

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ore eA TUNA

such a gigant[...]a proof that the natives
were much more numerons in former times
than they were when they first becam[...]the system of
attack and defence used necessarily in those
times, they would have been utterly unten-[...]uce a century ago. And yet,
when we remember that in those times

= of constant war, which include at[...]f Europeans, the natives always, as
a rule, slept in these hill forts with closed
gates, bridges over[...]merous, were merely the
population of the country in the close

vicinity. .*
_ War was indeed the chro[...]name among the earlier visitors to the shores
of New Zealand was not so much their repa-
tation for ferocity in war as their cannibal-
ism, and this also caused the Maoris them-
selves to be very timid in casual meetings
with alien tribes and with strang[...]ful practice. One of
Tasman’s sailors was eaten in 1642: Captain

du Fresne, and many othernavigator[...]nd, as did the passengers anc -
crew of the Boyd, in 1809, and there were
many other instances. joneer[...]tness to

the universal prevalence of cannabalism in
New. Zealand up to year 1842. These
oamuatie proporti[...]sons after the ac acy Ni

of Totara on the river

In December, 1831, a ae

a *

d nee fires made from the

16 dismantled pa. In the after-

x massacre took place, and so
some of[...]oles

' vis-a-vis to their captors, who
yes pause in their feasting to
the most insulting ex-

‘during the Rotorua war, sixty
ere cooked and eaten in two
¢ cannibal feast was in 1842,
, with forty picked warriors,
the Thames to[...]friendly chief, “ Lizard
and cooked several men in what
Shortland-street, and forced three
} Scemy ? jum: mrt the cliff,
th, in ep early days of Auckland.

wn as Soldier's eink mer vor

_ EXTERMINATING WARS.

only in the traces of Titanic forti-
which the earliest s[...]for" draining
aceable, large "pits were

‘seen in hundreds in’ which eatin
cestored, and that in” places which
time out of mind. ose most

nt to[...]ng “ies oe striking proofsfof this

New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.

ommenenestnnnmye e[...]e rapid rate at whi
extermination was carried on, in 1828, whei
the missionary schooner Herald, in whiel
were Messrs. H. Williams, Hamlin, a
Davis,[...]ck was
escaped.

But of all the curses with which New
land was afflicted, in the era immedia
preceding that of colonisation, t[...]irst introduced mi

naries into the country, Born in the
a near the Bay of Islands, Hongi
chief of ill[...]of the
Ngapuhi tribe. He early distinguished
self in battle, and was soon known as
greatest fighting c[...]ncouraging the spread of Christianit
was immersed in warfare, and suc
ravaged the Bay of Plenty, Rotorua,
garoa, and Hokianga. In 1820 Hongi
the chief Waikato embarked for Englar[...]ristianity, assisted Professor Lee, of Ce
bridge, in the construction of a vocabula
and grammar of the New Zealand lang
and created a favourable impression[...]g he collected larges
of guns and ammunition, and in 182) h
verted the greater part of the North Ii
i[...]been computed that at least
lives were sacrificed in Hongi’s great ral
between the years 1822 and 18[...]him the fame of having been
greatest warrior that New Zealand had
see

The last great intertribal war o[...]re were many most exciting and
romantic incidents in this great camp
but suflicient space has b[...]

nee has been made to the European
nt in the Bay of Islands now bearing
the name of Russel[...]lers, whalers,
and eyen the runaway conv who cast in
their lot with the Maoris, we the first to
implant the seeds of civilisation in the
native race, and of these the whalers
general[...]ave exer
sed the most beneficial influence They
e in after the sealers, and in 1827 the
whaling station was established at Pr
servation Inlet, near the south end of the
South Island, and in a few years there were
twelve stations between that place and
Banks’ Peninsula. In Queen Charlotte's
Sound, in Cloudy Bay, on the Island of
Kapiti, and at other places in Cook's Strait,
were large whaling establishments. On the
North Island there were whaling stations in
Poverty Bay, in the Bay of Plenty, and at
Taranaki. ‘These whalers were living in the
country long before the missionaries ever
vis[...]e of coast. ‘Three hundred
whalers were settled in New Zealand in
1840—men, as we have before stated, not to
be c[...]r their hus-
bands; they often acted as mediators in
drunken quarrels, promoted good feeling
between t[...]are acknow-
ledged to have exercised a beneficial in-
fluence on the aboriginals, by creating new
wants and introducing new customs, ivery-
thing used by them was coveted by[...]d pigs, flax, labour, and land were
readily given in exchange for tea, sugar,
tobacco, blankets, and d[...]Chimneys, beds,
and glass windows were introduced in native
huts, The whalers taught their wives to
sew, cook, and keep themselves clean, and
they in turn invariably took a laudable pride
in decking themselves out, for their hus-
bands’ admiration. Impartial witnesses in
1840 admitted that the civilisation intro-

tena[...]mong the

pioneer settlers,

The Early Days of New Zealand.[...]SIONARIES.

The first missionary, Marsden, landed in
the Bay of Islands in December, 1814; but
although he and the other mis[...]ir preaching was
attended with but scant success, In six
years they had not made a single convert.
n 1[...]o the neces-
sity of redemption as brutes,” and in 1829
the Wesleyan Mission contemplated with-
draw[...]missionaries seemed to be rewarded with
success. In 1838 theChurch Missionary Society
had 54 schools, attended by 1431 scholars ;
2476[...]he expenditure of £200,000,

If the missionaries in the early days were
unsuccessful in making converts, they were,
at least, eminently successful in uiring
land, In fact such facilities did they find in
purchasing it, they being at first almost the
sol[...]e
misfortune—or at least such was the
alleged—in December, 1835, the Rev. Hem .
Williams forwarded[...]lant a
belonging to natives” to the Governor of New
South Wales, and to the Secretary of the =
Church Mission Society, with a juest
that the missionaries at the Bay_of ds
might be appointed trustees for all the lands
of New Zealand, in order to “ preserv
from the intrigues of design[...]either the Governor nor “
the Church Missionary Society would sanc- —
tion any such arrangement. ib

Fven as late as 1860, we find a writer in
the long defunct New Zealand Magazine
stating of the ‘Aucklan[...]

scour cn

BRITISH COLONY

‘and 1837 attempts we!
‘companies in England to
Aeon these were firmly
Government. InNew
having been written some
despatch of the Aurora w[...]e
Wellington are. But, were
needed it is afforded in the
ble sketch of event
mission bearing date 30th[...]tenant-Governor “over
ory which may be acquired in
Her Majesty in the islands of
” Captain atech sailed for
Ms. D[...]nd set sail
all party of subordinate officers for
in TLM.s. Herald, on vhé 19th

Pe at the Bay of Isl[...]self, Al-
ap Aurora, with certain eni-
out by the New Zealand Company,
‘ort Nicholson on the 22nd Jan[...]nt already existed at =

Moreover, as against the New

Company being colonising body, it

to state that[...]2 months after the landing of Governor
bson, and, in fact, some five months after
of Auckland as the c[...]the several pr
anniversaries, interesting as the
in the history of the settlement of
ie ‘These latt[...]amation of the colony

= yet many

Britisheolony, New 4

oT ACK HNTNNN R
within its bounds. 1 wa
anded[...]s chief town on
ight bank of the Waitem: e

which in 1769 Captain Cook had pointed o
as a good place f[...]land from the natives, no
culty being experienced in the transacti
On Tuesday, 15th September, 1840, t[...]Government, mechanics, labout
ers, ete., anchored in Waitemata harbor
The Surveyor-General proceeded t[...]er with tl
Planter, were likewise lying at anchor in #
harbour. Her Majesty’s health was drunk
the f[...]one just
fternoon was held

the Gove:
toon board. In the
first regatta which ever took place on #
wate[...]given elsewhere. a
The first sale of Crown lands in then
town took place in April, 1841, when
sections sold at an average of[...]hile the most frantic indignation hi
been aroused in Wellington by the foun
tion of Auckland, the Wakefields and
agents of the New Zealand Association
rting the Governor should hav[...]apital there. The early volumes of
reports of the New Zealand Association
mainly taken up with these sq[...]th September, 1842, aged
ine years. His body lies in Auckland
and in St. Paul’s Church, lately
molished, stood) » m[...]memory. The town of Auckland wi
Thompson remarks in his “ Story of
Zealand,” better perpetuate hi[...]of Au
colonisation. Emigrants cho
+ establishment in preference
or Van Dieman’s Land for~

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Lord Normanby, ina despatch Yet the balls in those olden days of the[...]nly as much enjoyed, as
Shall not be exten led to New i ealand. fubernatorial Bir iday Ball of to-day,[...]tood as a fundamental = 2 7 Sqr SALES

ipl te the new colony that no convict 2 BARLY STRUGGUNS)
prineip[...]between the natives and
escent.” = thesettlers in this, the Northern settlement,

Taken as a whole,[...]aple dietary for ‘all classes of the com- vised in the interests, as it was supp One of
siapty. _ Co[...]could legally purchase
Phat * there are no taxes in New Zealand, nor = land from the natives after 1840.[...]he situation was menacing and
‘itzroy gave way. In March, 1844, a procla-
mation was gazetted author[...]he settlers were disgusted,
and busied themselves in exciting discontent

with small tea-tree; beyond[...]t a mile anda half, was a dense thicket,
go dense in fact, that in order to find one’s
way through it, it was nece[...]oad leading out of Auck-
Jand was hardly passable in .the winter
season for the distance of a mile, Ep[...]ey xpanse of unfrequented water. In 2 SMIOnE the Maoris.. They represented tothe
ane[...]d Auckland, who were most im-

for weeks together in the principal. street,
buried axle-deep in mire and clay, and when
anative whare did duty fora police court
six da in the week, and fo a place[...]the seventh, locomotion — Sieuiataly concerned in the law, determined
by Maht ‘wos difficult, and[...]the law were modified there might (

es, yet, in the worst be a rising of the whole native race. i[...]ing feet” andilight @ Sau the town on & reba Aw in between
fantastic toes,” as the old chronicler[...]spot now
before us gallantly terms them, encased in covered with villas an i lens. Here ay

men’s j[...]e Hth N ey e Gogernon sit a ‘
Her Maj Birthday, In these, the dark Cergentae feast by inkieei[...]

Bees) having muskets and

in readiness, Hach body con-

eight hundred men in a com-

n front, and forty deep,

absolutely simu[...]e

of the past. <A few of our

‘on the occasion in question

compelled to become spec-

s Mr. Swainson says—

equalled in the uncivilised

be

Aucklanders, including a few[...]d yelling into the arena, the
ntly thought that a New Zealand
was more honoured in the breach
é observance, says our authority.
fiers in Auckland sunk into no-
t before this display; an[...]the Roman ©: Chapel,
thrown up, and the windows in St. Paul
Church were barricaded. Every day
grew m[...]f Her Majesty’s ship Ha
landed, andall remained in attitudes of deft
until daylight, and then much merrimen:
when if was found that the alarm ori

inin the land,

AFTER FIFTY YEARS.

All the heartburnings and jealousies

me into play in the early days of the e
insation of New Zealand have passed a)
even to their very memory,[...]have been considered and cared for as t
have been in New Zealand. :

It is far too general an opini[...]

direction; no sign of human being, no

1g[...]s ago on 29th January since
Captain Hobson landed in the Bay of Islands,
bearing Her Maje8ty’s Commission as Lieu-
tenant-Governor of New Zealand. He had
taken the nec: ry oaths of office[...]ver-
not before Sir George Gipps, the Governor of
New Sonth Wales, as New Zealand had
been included in the domain of New South
Wales on the 15th day of June, 1839, by
letters patent under the Great Seal. He was
accompanied to New Zealand in H.M.S,
Bersid by five civilians and five troopers of
the Mounted Police foree of New South
Wales. There were about 4000 British and
European residents in the colony when
Captain Hobson landed atthe Bay o[...]clusive of the 204 officers and immigrants
of the New Zealand Land Company, who
had been sent to Wellin[...]ouaiti—on the Middle Island,

Those who resided in the Middle and
Stewart's Islands were almost wholly em-
ployed in whaling pursuits.

m the day after the arrival of[...]1839, by which the boundaries i
of the colony of New South Wales were

A Summary of History. 9

syne iN

vn HOMME

now Mount Eden, the centre of smili[...]led wilderness beheld,
A savage conqueror stained in kindred blood,

While shouts and howlings through[...]s colonising power, and of its
enormous expansion in trade, in commerce,
in all that constitutes national greatness
during th[...]ed so as_to embrace and
comprehend the islands of New Zealand in
the South Seas; and the other dated the
30th day[...]d
onstitute ‘ William Hobson, Esquire, cay
tain in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy,” to
Lieutenant-Governor “oyer such parts of
the Islands of New Zealand as should be
ceded to Her Majesty in sovereignty.”

On the Monday following, the 3rd[...]rder, law, and security for life and
pisneneys “in this improving and important
colony.”

The address, it may said in passing, was
drafted by the Hon. Dr. Pollen, on w[...]revious to the establishment of British
authority in New Zealand by the arrival of
Captain Hobson, a considerable trade
New South Ww. 8, reat pita,
America prevailed. ‘The[...]istics have never yet been obtained,
and those-of New South Wales only par-
tially. The exports consist[...],
from 1823 to 1832, the value of the to
and from New South Wales was as <

os aeoe
And fr 18[...]

while at Mana and Kapiti

m New South Wales had

he and cattle stations.

of rse no roads in the

the boat and canoe formed the

of transit fr[...]us ot the Buro-

tion appears to have been taken

in the Census Act of 1858 1t was

tan account shall be taken in the

ber in the year 1858, “and

month in every third year suc-

g, of the number and condi[...]e.

(faba.

we G04. Fe

military and their famili in-

a theabove ares ies are not in:
mplete return exists for the

rom which it was estimated edtee

1 v population in that year was 13,128.

it no great reliance can b[...]of immigration over emigration
has varied largely in different years.
epochs are, however, well marked, namely,
hose of the gold discoveries in Otago am
Westland; and when the Public works an
I[...]t expended on their
troduction, may be summarised in the ma
following :—

Per- Ex]
sons. ture
13971[...]0
1881 to end of 18%5 .. 11,691 i

There were not in 1886 any immigi
whose passages were wholly paid f[...]rtially assisted, hay i
heen nominated by friends in the colony;
in 1886, several families came out under
gulations m[...]ber of persons who may
desirous of taking up land in New Zealal
at the same rates as are required to be
py persons nominating thei friends in
colony, namely, £10 for each adult, and
for each[...]on of the Agent-General that he is
sessed of £100in cash, and that he is
possessed of cash equal to t[...]* Persons desirous of doing so can al
to come out in the second-class on the al
terms, by an additiona[...]e between the cost of steerage @

For
regulations in 1886, bringing their fami
sith them, the total nu[...]ch nominated immigrant being an adi
£10 was paid in the colony by their frie
and £5 for each child between the ages of 0
and I2 years. In the three years, 1886,
and 1888, for the introduction of fam
people and those nominated in

‘The year 1888 stands marked, in the table
of the statistics in the ge neral summary,
Pninigration excess over em[...]ce the foundation of the
Folony, more people left New Zealand by
emigration then came into it by the number
stated, 9175. The loss by emigration, how-
ever, in 1889 was only 904. ee
is one of the most curious facts of life in
aland that the artisan and the labour-
es should migrate to the Australa-
Life perhaps in exceptional
cases 1 sasier there, but it is far le
pleasant ull the British colonies in the
Fomain of the Crown New Zealand is without
doubt the most pleasant and easi place to
live in. Those who know it best love it best.
Tt is a lan[...]the waters of Newfoundland. Those
who grow grain in the South reap the heaviest
harvests of any reapers in the world. In the
North fruits of almost all climates find con-[...]with the
native race, and the manifold fruits ef in-
dustry can be gathered without fear or
danger. M[...]countries.

LANDS.

The revenue the Government of New Zea
land obtained from the sale of Crown lands
wa[...]land the
Governor sold only amounted to £63,672 in
value, inclusive of the site of the city of
Auckl[...]alised some £21,500;
while the land sales of the New Zealand
Company to July, 1850, realised no less than
£360,500. Among other land sharks, the New
Zealand Land Company was entitled to exult
at its[...]nown sums the ofticers of ithe Company re-
ceived in place of the Crown, “Alone among
British colonies, New Zealand had no lands
to sell but what were first[...]of her narrow means, had to expend over
£10,300 in native land purchases. After 1850,
the Canterbury[...]atistics say, ““The waste or
Crown lands sold in each year prior to 1856
cannot be accurately stat[...]ead of ‘Free Grants’
515,648 acres) represent in each year the
tutalquantity of free grants to imm[...]rding to last census land is shown to be
occupied in manner following, and though a
number of small ho[...]en up, they will not affect view
as to the manner in which occu-
pied, excluding Crown pastoral[...]

‘had been built in New Zea-

‘of the country before Cap-
arrival. The[...],

haps, it may be pertinent to
-sealsking caught in New Zea-
gang who built the“ Pro-
5 ‘ky Bay was p[...]sealing industry
6 took its rise, and flourished in
er of this century, but had
to exist before the arrival of

1 in these seas,
es built several boats at the
and several vessels were con-
anga. One, in 1835, was built,
J y, but burned by the natives
e[...]Picton, and
the Wellington harbour for years

he New Zealand pompeny sent out

immigrants; while anoth[...]a-year entered

TAMER

of Islands, but until the New .
ee eds are obtained by the Governmen
from New pause els ah interesting field
inquiry is under l[...]a authorities at Port Jackson, when °
sels built in New Zealand traded to Brit
ports. As New Zealand at that time was n
regarded as a B tish c[...]nd se

ected as a national emblem by the chiefs 1
New Zealand, nor could they trade betw
Port Jackson and New Zealand while owne
py British subjects, without b[...]culty, however, was
vid of by the adoption of the New Zeal:

flag.

‘Xiter 1840 vessels were built ab[...]s that
pi ed for the Indian and Colonial Exh
tion in London commence with the year
while the statistic[...]1889 64,427,687 64,164,137

General has published in
ed to the volume of sta

his ‘Story of New Zealand,” which, he say
“is stated by Sir Geo[...]£9,131,373. ‘
Customs duties were first levied in A
land and Russell on Ist July, 1841,
Wellington[...]e produce of
United Kingdom, or any British posse
in America, or of New South Wales, or ¥V
Diemen’s Land, per g[...]

r, flour, meal, wheat,
Wee, aud other and pulea, fonser
rN) in value, £5; on all other goods

* ¢ soods the produce and manutacture of
5, om, or of New South Wales,
; Land), for every £100 in

cept
the United I
or Van Diem
value, £10.

Pp AND WOOL.

nal stock of sheep in this colony

from New South
re_ the fir:

Jales. ‘The
M oxitigilars in the Bay of Islands, though
Captain Young may be considered the
second in the field, as he brought both sheep
and cattle to[...]Mr. George Bell,
of Dundee, took up Mana Island, in Cook
Straits, in’ 1882, and put a small flock of
sheep on it, be[...]. Mr.
Jerningham Wakefield, who was on the
island in 1839, states how Mr. Bell’s widow,
quite mad, l[...]t at a late feast some fifty had been
sacrificed,
New South Wales herself started her herds
and flocks[...]into Australia, which, con-
sidering the sheep of New Zealand came
thence, cannot be without interest t[...]y connected, was the first man,
we are told, who, in the year 1795, first broke
Australian soil with a[...]tta with the Crown grant of 100
acres, and bought in 1794 60 Bengal ewes and
bs, and “‘two ewes an[...]m of
ee tetas aoe Which had been brought out
a tr
In 1796 Captain Kent and Captain Water-
use were sent in two sloops of war, the
Reliance and Supply, with[...]sale by the widow of Colonel Gordon,
who had them in charge.

A portion of the flock was purchased by[...]ed 1.
guineas a head for the whole lot.

With the new and valuable blood of the
pure merino, which Capt[...]the production of carcases
he steadily persevered in the attainment of
his original object.

Captain McArthur being in England at the
commencement of the present centur[...]ew. aur
of the rams, however, died on the passage
New South Wales, where he found his breed-
ing flock[...]g once id,
and good prices obtained for fine wool in the
London market, the set: soon took up.
the pro[...]tee on which Cee Perea
ptain

#00 ackes of land in any locality he chose oe

select as being most suitable in his judgment
for pastoral purposes. i ‘[...]g the sided
tineevecn Samuel . 8
that when he was in E in!
in ‘uced to Gone u
z oseph Banks, Pee e requested[...]xpect to be uj
a t of

Be rane
Beers

Wool is the
New
combing wool
comprises the
breeds of[...]

7 lish sheep.
ares

+ breed has received great
ndand in the Auckland
jally, the merino is

rtant breed fe[...]ities
are given ipsior of the

GRAIN.
head of “ in,” the following
nd ao aes ulated for the
as hav[...]appointed by

Commissioners to report on the
ous in the Colonies and Indian
of 1886,

average produce of over 26 bushels
p e, and over 32 bushels of
es New Zealand in the position
the most prolific countries in
. + . The samples of wheat

heaf by the Canterbur[...]mmerce which are shipped

Ingland do not approach in quality these
mens, . . . . The samples of
paply[...]the C Syaller would bring eno:
5 mgland. . . . . In the
of its oats, again, New Zealand is in
rank. The samples of potato oats
ur sable. . . . In all the chief
New Zealand has shown b. these
fee ection of superb q[...]h the wonderful inei
and development of the trade in frozen mi
the above extract came to recollection,[...]ear only; n
they reap another harvest once aoe me
in the year, by freezing so many that in
year one-third of the whole flock,
run, will go t[...]r.

So rapid has been the development of th
trade in its short career that no excuse j
needed for quoting the official figures in
of the quantity exported and its deel

value :—
Value,

Quantity in ewts.
i £19,339

1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888

an object of diligent native manufael
No New Zealand trade was so full of h

,

of his losing

among whom he lived. The Customs ret

of New South Wales of 1828 give sixty ta
valued at £2600 as the quantity expor
from Sydney to London in that year.
1830 eight hundred and forty-one tons ¥
exported, while 28 vessels engaged in th
flax trade made in the aggregate 56 voyage
to New Zealand. The export in 1831

At Grimsby.
manufactory was established in the
year for the production of articles of N
Zealand fibre.
Sir James Hector in his “‘ Handbool
New Zealand” writes : “From 1858'to I
the average[...]fibre exp
was nearly £2500, reaching as high as
in but up to that time the only fi
expo. ed w[...]

the article. In 1860,
native: disturbance af
me dis:

produc ther[...]the fibre could be 1
employed by puroveen labour. In 1
increasing demand for white rope, and the
limit[...]pends for its production on native manual
labour in the Philippine Islands) led to a
rise in its value from £21 to £56 per ton,
and even to[...]It was stated some time since on good
rity that New ax was being ex-
cultivated in the Azores Islands,

and that a company had been[...]considerably hardened,
and the commodity has been in much greater
demand. This improvement has arisen[...], while the fibi

with manilla has also d
creased in its yield. But, beyond these ci
c*mstance h may be only of an
ephemer er, & new and increasing
use has been found for the fibre of the fla:
This is the manufacture of twine for use in
ing machine—the flax fibreanswer-
ing all the conditions for twine-makin,
markably well. While a new use has been
found for the phormium, machinery ha[...]70,
1871 to 1880.
1881 to 1888...

compete

Value in £’s.

195,012
454,515
261,077

21;
14,681

Tn[...]sed of late, we give the fol-

lowing figures :—In 1885, there were ex-
sorted, 1063 tons ; in 1886, 1112 tons; in 1887.
578 tons; in 1888, 4042 tons, of the value of
£75,269. For th[...]GOLD

Gold, Dr. Hector writes, was discovered i.
New Zealand in 1842, less than nieekiea
from the foundation of t[...]Jnvial diggings were discovered at Colling-
wood in 1858, in Otago in 1861, and in 1,
the goldfields of Westland commenced to offer
sreat attraction to the mining population,

In June 1861, gold was found at Gabriel’s
Gully in Otago, and when the first escort took
away over 5[...]riel’s ully, and the
population of Otago, which in 1860 was 12,691,
in the December of the year following was
considered[...]an 30,000.
The small province of Southland, under in-
fluences which had magnified Otago, incresadll
its population from 1876, in the year 1861, to
8085 in 1864,

In 1865 Westland was “ rushed,” and settled
whey[...]e was not more than I eoplein
the district, while in December 181, when
the census was taken, the popu[...]ds of the colony. A
late writer on the history of New Zealand
remarks of this district :—“It is dif[...]oast population of
settlers who, it must be borne in mind, came
there at their own cost.”

The Thames goldfield was opened in August
1867, and soon obtained a large population[...]d by a few day:

work. The Golden Crown paid. 000 in
dividends in twelve months; Cale-
donian subsequently yielded ten gold
in about the same period of time, | distri-
buted £[...]the fortunate share-
holders.

GOLD EXPORTED
From New Zealand from Ist April, 1857, to
end of th[...]

aii am

ally an Auckland

is the turpe[...]rom

lweigl . & lntge ae
> gumfiel is 80!

ly for New York

itis generally carried in
ndon, for

‘it is sent to,
the American cit
t t[...],414 1,877,359
1. 49,972 2,492,386
TIMBER.
e from New Zealand is
u although there is no
ery

i after the arrival of Cap-
“thn

it was descril ent

es in having the turpen- =

eof the tree instead of he-[...]mber

h, handeut by the natives into
, was common in Sydney.
le havy sent two store ships to New
to load with spars for topmasts
; Captain Deléitte—subsequently
tat Port Jackson—came to th
a in 1825, the timber trade between
ud and New South Wales expanded
ensions.

ae ear Se Bee back
y are given in five yearly periods.
ae yearly periods,

£148,37[...]441,018

ing erected for its ©

her was exported in bulk -
before the end of fhe last —

Jubilee, 1[...]Tsland

colony is rapic

nere
fact that there is in the

we quantity of the best bituminous stear

al that is known to ist south of

Equator, in the close ¥ y r
capable of accommodating steam c[...]-tound
hope exists that the future of coal minin:
New Zealand will be the source of g
jvealth to the whole community. ‘Time
the chief factor in all modern mercan
transactions, and the steamer t[...]two saved i

passage means a considerable saving in
cost of the voyage. The best coal for raisi
steam[...]h navy used south of the Equator’
be drawn from New Zealand; and that
Southern Imperial coaling stati[...]t of the Middle Island 20 per ee
better than best New South Wales 66
for steam purposes. Until petroleu[...]coal of superior quality the Mott
Roebiort mine, in Nelson, alone contal
140,000,000 tons,

Output.
T[...]on
the products of the fishery were not expe
from New Zealand, but must have gol
New South Wales, and that whal

gn count took their c[...]being known
recorded by, the Customs authorities.
in the season of 1843-4 there were
England from Wellington alone
oil, while 230 tons went from New
to Port Jackson. early in 184)
can and other foreign vessels engaged
whaling trade, and wanting, repairs 0

= plies in the colony, and being des'

In one or more years the oil is reckoned asso ©

many casks, and when in this manner x
gorded has no money value attached, The
same thing occurs with the bone, which in
years is entered as so many packages
ad of hundre[...]lf-

ta
Searee any oil appears in the expor
some 600 gallons of sperm oil, while th[...]ses, And, though
edible fish swarm all around the New Zea-
land coast (several known varieties not yet[...]of fish at any one of the centres of popula-
tion in either Island. Not enough, even, for
local consum[...]y all the world
ov They certainly do so, at least in
Europe. They live in hamlets by themselves,
aud the calling seems here[...]hermen. They sell the fish
which the men captare. In some places
they also make and mend the nets whil[...]her-folk from the West
Coast of Ireland, who were in sore straits
lor sustenance, to migrate here to form a

ng village in the Hauraki Gulf, stating
that homesteads would b[...]he letter, though the pre-
sent acting-Premier of New Zealand, the fon.
Mr. Mitchelson, was among the p[...]NNAN

= ing the document. It was the lack of fish in
= Auckland, with which its surrounding waters*

s[...]ishing, nor fisheries have as yet found a
- place in the copious index of our yolyume of
= Statistics,[...]he year 1840—a
date that has not often appeared in the
former portion of this bende abstract,
The te[...]e here
employed. Shillings and pence are omitted,
In dealing with this portion of the financial
histor[...]from 1840 to 1852 inclusive, when the
“Receipts in aid” ceased to appear in the
balance-sheets. In 1853 the accounts are
tabulated by the Registrar-[...]ing dates of financial
periods.

The ‘ Receipts in aid” in the earlier years
comprise advances by the Government of New
South Wales, und receipts from the Imperial
Treasury in the form of Parliamentary grants
and drafts on th[...]urious to compare the
figures of the Audit Office in the “ Balance-
sheets of the colony,” with th[...]Registrar-General from Dr, Thomson's
“Story of New Zealand”—the Registrar-
General in a memorandum telling us—
““Which is stated-[...]sources when he
was Governor.” The “ Receipts in aid,” ac-
cording to the Andit, Office, amount. to
£207,240, whereas in Thomson’s tables they
are set down as £1 ee al[...]:

There are no expenditure returns prior to
1874 in the trar-General’s statistical
summary, and tho[...]ure of the vai
prior to that date, as far as 1853 in the
columns of the statistics, they are so en-
ta[...]he have become be-
wildered or abandoned the task in
The late Mr. Macandrew ‘pomp: tears of
a[...]

of this amount of liability

d in reproductive works, or

‘expediency, so as to r[...]the end of the
ar, the Middle Island w:

provide in some portions with

it was almost deficient in

the North Island was defi-

sand railways, and w[...]y was difficult to

e open country which prevails in
d Canterbury railway and road con-
é 4 difficult[...]ive Lands.
Miscellaneous Public Works
Expenditure in Raising Loan: B,
Transfer under Roads and Bridges[...], and River Works Accounts ..
Loan money expended in aid of revenue

Total ..

The above deti u
published at various times, and are to
Rated in the Appendices to the Journ:
the House of* Representatives, and in
volume of Statistics for the ; whi
the loan money expended in aid of revs
is froma return moved for by B
on 27t[...]e a return showing the amouni
loan money expended in aid of revenue
each year since 1875.”

CIVIL SE[...]colony, issu
from the Audit office, is here given in qt
quennial periods :— “a

Cost of Civ[...]

value of
and

pro[...]e of land,

ion for loss of office two
periods in the last decade are notable, those
‘of 1880 and[...]Total .. ° - .-£116,376,659

Tt must be borne in mind that in this esti-

mate of the wealth of the colony the[...]computed as being wor

some 10s'an acre, whereas in New South
ales the unalie dC

Puted as being worth |

of the public wealth in “The W

Ptogress af New South Wal

wader the Government auspices,[...]

i
Zealand's
er cane wT AAT
sans i

in value BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, a
te ex ort This Bank was founded in Auckland it
Lio SIS 252, 1861, but its promoters[...]s to consist
there isa very large = of £500,000, in shares of £10 cach. Its patds
ai he colony capab[...]he mildness of the — 50 per cent., if required, in calls of not less
ty of the soil pounce than thre[...]Brewing “It is manifest to those who have devo
in breweries por out _ attention to the subject, that the bank
: te < Tn 1835 we tablishments in New Zealand have deri
foreign manufacture in mmense profits, which are payable entirely
iz. ab[...]fit invizorating substi whether the colonists of New Zealand are not
, on to state how a house was now in a position to enjoy, and entitled
si seive, Whate[...]mue
il for brewing, and “the natives = interest in the proposed Bank, and when #l
li ractice in quafting,/Scon share list was opened it was found[...]were taken
‘fish, ete.,soon found conveyance = in what was then known as the capital o
in exchange for Pierian New Zealand. An equal number was re-
New Zealand beer. That = served for London, where a b[...]tinguis! ed for its merits at the taken up, while in Wellington and Chris
in Melbourne in the year 1888. church the proposed Bank was great[...]r, and at Welling:
ton and Nelson on 15th January in the new[...]ra

_ BANKS.
six banks doing business in New
with the following paid - up[...]fRetSatasia (43°
outh Wales

‘New Zenland (Ltd.) ».

uk of New Zealand... by
ts, assets, and liabilities in the
the end of September, 1889,[...]

At the third meeting the paid-[...]f 10 pei
cent, was declared, the reserve fund was in-
creased by £24,000, and amounted to £33,000.[...], and £2691 carried forward. At the
last meeting in April, 1! the directors
initiated a guarantee and[...]r donations of £500 each,

From the meeting held in October, 1865, to
that held in October, 1867, both meetings in-
a dividend of 10 per cent, per annum
paid, and a[...]nding at £150,000.

. The year following, 10,000 new shares were
issued at £3 premium, which increase[...]rve fund to
£180,000, A sum of £45,000 was paid in
dividend and bonus at the April meeting,
while £[...]0
Was again distributed among the share-
holders. In 1876 the capital was increased to
1,000, and the[...]the increases being provided for by the issue
of new shares at oe premium and the accu-
mulation of pr[...]75,000,
the merease to ¢a being premiums on
2500 new shares issued to the Fiji Banking
Company, while[...]0 per cent.
is paid, and the bonus of 5s a share. In
October, 1879, the Bank’s capital is made a
mil[...]0, the par value of 1979
shares of £10 each held in reserve, while the
reserve fund was announced to[...]obtained
throughout 1881.

At the April meeting, in 1882, the reserve
fund was increased by £25,000;[...]h the pre-

dent stated had dispensed £1,862,000 in

ividends during its career.
The year following,[...]of £25,000 to our reserve
fund, and to open the new half-year with a
balance of £8,900 10s 4d.

Up t[...], the Bank
“having sustained exceptional losses in Aus-
tralia ;” and he added, ““but for the visible
improvement in our future prospects we fur-
ther had it in contemplation to transfer
£50,000 from the reserve fund,”

In April, 1887, a sum of £125,000 was take
off the reserve fund; and in the October
meeting it was stated that the directors did
not feel warranted in declaring a dividend,

In April, 1888, a dividend at the rate of z
per cent[...]hoe ees alt eee £24,500, and
the sum 07 earn wi

In April, 1889, a dividend at the rate of 7
per cent[...]ten down to £7 per £

atin Saw jini Enea a0
000 new

25,000 new shares, £7 each paid up.

yt £1,125,000[...]

(NEW ZEALA\

ND.
Act of the
ears authorised

| ; and the

£4,419, The head

the general manager

a Watson being in-

Messrs. John Hislop,

Hon, G. paar,

. Richar iver,

acd John Roberts,

¢ in all Pets of ihe

rincipal branches

oe J. Pennist[...]son, Right Hon. L

and Mr. Geo. Cowie is

BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. |
s established in London in
/ nd in 1873, and is in-
e Companies Acts of 1862
few Zealand Act of 1873,
),000 in 200,000 shares.

},000 in 100,000 shares.

Bank is in 71, Old

lon, E.C. The chairman
Haward Brodie Hoa[...]Mr. Richard Maxwell is the

tary, The head office in New

is medin, and the general
is Mr. William Dymock. There
and agencies in all the centres

in the colony, and agencies iu

ian colonies, The Au[...]ICE SAVINGS BANKS.
Post Office Savings Banks were in-
and during the year 46 branches
d, At the end of 1872 there
in operation, and a total
was left amounting to over -
the credit of 13,566 depositors. =
sion of trade in 1879 had com- —
little effect on its deposits,[...]gs Banks other than

nnected with the Post Office in aie
? were established at the places

d, in the years mentioned s—Auckland,

eae

seen

anim

«1 1847; New Plymouth, in 1850; Nelson, in
i eT Non, in, 1864; Dunedin, in 1864
Tuvercargill, in 1864; and Hokitika, in 1866,
The total amonnt to the credit of the depos[...]ferent banks as follow :—Auckland, £471,057 5
New Plymouth, £6270; Napicr, £10,230;
4 tika, £10,[...]land Savini
Bank (it being the oldest and richest in the
colony) may be given. It was founded in
1846 by Dr. Johnson, Rev. Thomas Buddle,

ey. J.[...]promoters took place on the 3rd De=
cember, 1846, in the store of Messrs. Brown
and Campbell, when rul[...]nk was opened for business on the 5th
June, 1847, in the Mechanics’ Institute, and
on the 19th of th[...]vings Banks’ Or
nance, 1847, having been passed in Septemb
—was carried on in the office of the Union
Bank of Australia; and the first investme
was made in Government 8 per cent, deb
tures, purchased at a discount of from
to 124 per cent. J

In October, 1850, the trustees asked #
Governor for[...]eir customers wishing to wil
draw their savings.

In 1853, the Bank advertised that it wi
prepared to purchase Government del
tures at par; and in the same year it not
fied that not more than one[...]“
ere unknown,

rule and the constitution were in operatiol
_ In March, 1854, the trustees of the
invested £400 at 8 per cent. on 60 acres ¢
snd at Mount Eden, and in the following
month, the manager of the Union Ban[...]use of a room adjoining the Colonial B
of Issue. In December, 1854, £300 wa
lent at 10 per cent. per annum.

In October, 1855, the Bank inves
Provincial G[...]

In 1857 and 1858 applications were made to = for a colonial Board of Dit
the Provincial Government fora site in
Queen-street, and apieceof land being part of
that now occupied by the Bank was granted by
the Government in August, 1859, In August,
1860, a section contiguous to that granted
was also purchased for the sum of £375. In
February, 1860, the Bank rented premises in
Queen-street at £80 a year, and in May of the
sume year the trustees “decided to e[...]borrow £1200 at 10
per cent. for five years.”

In 1880 the walls of the Bank building were
injured by a fire, and as before stated a new
building was decided to be erected, and pre-
mium[...]FOREIGN BANKS.

The Foreign Banks doing business in New
Zealand are the Banke of Australasia, New
South Wales, Union Bank of Australia, each
of which have establishments in all the prin-

cipal centres of the colony. r

‘THE NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MER- |
CANTILE AGENCY CO,[...]

ce Soci[...].. 3 844400
The Nquitable T 4

INSURANCE. tion of New Zealand ve 2,472 50,941

' The Equitable Life Assurance
d in 1669 empowerin; Society of the United States ., 22 77,252,
ee paprances a[...]of Australa aA 92,772
establishment, can be = The New York Life Insurance
; who is Te orted Company ..[...]he last sworn re-
Government Insurance ‘
lished in 1870, at a time Number of Sum
nee in many English as- _ Policies. Assured.
nies was se[...]suecess-
G erent, and the example = ful business in our midst. he life assurance
thas attracted the a[...]ll colonials, inasmuch as
ment. The premiums = no society established in these colonies has
first fixed at what were = eve[...]which is —
ard to safety, and without any = not in a properous condition at the present,
t- bonuses, ne notwithstanding aay, Australasia leads the world in respect
h ee ; management, to- = to life assuranc[...]ssed.
enka the ea) panes care The pioneer company in New Zealand is —
es ined £ Pre! ol Te, the Australian Mutual Provident Society.
‘ation report of the = Established in the year 1848, and commene-
ing business in a small office over a grocer’s —
of the scheme have been 2 shop in George-street, Sydney, this society’s —
ia The security offered business for the[...]do
scale of premiums, 4 windfall of business, the society rested upon
wing no restrictive condi- = i[...]

sty included New Zealand in its

ayo this 80° i Beh ia
ago of operations,[...]elf
& strict attention to sound business, and
the New Zealand business of this company

ewity contributed to swell its profits in
ist, more than one-eighth of its entire
theese being held in this colony, The
busines office for the colony is in Welling-
Mr. E. W. Lowe being in charge of the
toy, Mr. C. W. Hemery in charge of the
colony, 4 ee « Vs y 8
skland 0} =
Age a the companies in their order, the
next to commence business in New Zealand
asthe Mutual Life Association of Austral-
‘atablished in Sydney in the year
1369, This company selected Auckland as[...],
Me. W. I. J. Bell. Tt has erected magnifi-
cent new offices in Queen-street, and is now
vigorously expanding its[...]which is distinguished as being
the first office in the world to apply the
surrender-value of policie[...]en years ago. This company has a wider
jopularity in Australia than in New Zea-
find, the majority of its business being held
there, New Zealand only contributing a
small proportion of t[...]f this company are located at
Wellington, and the New Zealand branch
is under the control of Mr, 8, G.[...]w under its feet, and now po: es the
third large: in the colony.

The s to the ranks consist of
the two mammoth American companies, the
New York Life and the Equitable Com-
panies, with who[...]ss
of the colony.

The total amount of assurances in force in
the colony (exclusive of policies held in Eng-
lish offices) is now £14,613,598, total funds
being £2,865,409, and the annual new busi-
ness transacted last year £2,065,985, nearly
half-a-million a year ‘being collected in pre-
miums,

When we consider that the population[...]ummary of History. a5

nee

TC

‘icc M NRHN

NEW ZEALAND ACCIDENT INSURANCE

3 i COMPANY.
,The New Zealand Accident Insurance
Company was established in 1879, but no
business was transacted in Auckland till
1880, In the year following they were firm
established thr[...]he Australasian Acci-
dent Assurance Association. In 1887 they
required the business of the Accident In-
surance Association of New Zealand. The
company has a total eapital of £100[...]claims amounting to £60,000, The head office
is in Auckland, and there are agencies
throughout New Zealand and Australia.
The directors are—Messrs[...]is Mr. P. A. Edmiston.

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY,

‘This is a Fire and Marine Insurance Com-
pany established in 1859, being the first local
insurance company in the glory: It has a
capital of £1,000,000 in £10 shares, £200,000.
being paid up, and a rese[...]on half-a-million ster-
ling. The head office is in Auckland, with
local branches in Wellington, Christchurch,
Dunedin, Napier, Wanganui, New Plymouth,
Nelson, Blenheim, Invercargill. There a[...]RANCE COMPANY,

The South British Fire and Marine In-
surance Company was established in 1872. It
has a capital of £2,000,000, in £20 shares,
£1,292,560 being subseribed, and th[...]reserve fund
£81,160, and the total amount paid in divi-
dends £145,500. ‘Lhe head office is in Auck-
land, as there ae hea ee elle
Christchurch,[...]Vn
is is a fire and mi surance com-
pout Je ished in 1873. Lt has &

Bi ,000, the amount paid u 1
che See
diyiden a a amoy , I
isi nedin, with ches in Cl
of yagi” abd Auckland[...]

OF NEW ZEALAND.

iy, the head office of which is
hag for[...]Baxter, Maurice Joel,
un Scouler. The company has
in London, Melbourne, Sydney,
d Adelaide, as well as in all the
} and towns of New Zealand,
in all districts. Mr. F
nager of the Auckland branch[...]COMPANIES.
owing foreign insurance offi
business in the colony :

New Zealand manager, Mr. C.

3 Dunedin; Victoria (Fir[...]the Legislatur ein 1872, has been very
successful in its operations. Its object was
ition of intestate[...]ubstituted for guardians, and administer the
prop in their place. The estates of ©
Pipniin e yested in the public trustee, as are ©

many native res[...]ren outside the four hours a-day ©
for five days in the week, which are devoted
to secular teaching, but the opportunity is_
more observed in the breach than in the per-
formance. The secular subjects taught ar[...]schools, and the endowed
collegiate institutions in Canterbury, Otago,
and Auckland “are affiliated to the New.
Zealand University, which is an examining
body h[...]to confer degrees and to
grant scholarships. The New Zealand Uni-~
versity, which has a Royal Charter,[...]1128 public schools open,
employing 2839 teachers in the instruction @
112,685 children. From e[...]

- it should be ste :
uF held in connection w
; schools—124 for boys and 89 for[...]Seeing in value from £4 to £52 10s pe’ ae a paid as fun[...]tion to sick pay out of the ben
Tae hools were 22 in number, funds, the sum of £23,615 was expended ent

114 regular and 5) visiting in-
The number of students was 2004,
anging from £1[...]n landed at the Bay ci
annum. ‘The tota cs e é in January, 1839, and, with the exception ¢

£27 10s per pupil, 82 of w he has beenin New Zealand ever since,
years of age. Of this amount, of income tifty years in Maoriland than a whole
£20,186 came from fees, the remainder princi- of Cathay. In the half-century closing around
pally the rents o[...]sum voted by the General = Governments pass away in rapid succession ;
Assembly. our first representa[...]leeps
The total number of undergraduates on the = in God’s acre in Symonds-street, the city
books of the New Zealand University, Ist Auckland his monument, It, is not
May, 1889, was 943, 7 many men—even captains in "
The private schools in the colony are 299 in navy—to found such cities as
nomber, employing 723 teachers in the in- Sydney. But the watehword of b
struction of 15,8[...]for the year was rT a short visit to Port Jackson in the eae
le

In the nati schools, attended by 2592 was sent by th[...]his opinion!

ties (the Registrar-General states) in the 5
golony on st December, 1888, was 51. OF | W[...]l benefit

funds amounted to £339,614 Os 10d, an in-
crease of £43,946 18s 7d on the value of[...]

ATTEMPT AT GOVERNMENT.

o be fined £10. In disputes between.
fadlorda and tenants the decisi[...], to replace the aN- = jtioy should meet, monthly in the house of
filing, in which = Gne of the members, and the chairman,

good in his own = Qenuty-chairman, and two other persons[...]or hisser-

‘of the scheme which ;

been formed in con: resoltitions, the 13th provided that ever
an[...]sion — Qasily! One of thé “leading lights” in the

don the persons or Die formation of the Association was the lat
hen of the society, by — My, Benjamin Turner, of Newmarket, Auck

KA SETTLERS’
10.

of New Zealand or oe. land. A list of donations is appen[...]there were mi
bound ‘@ jeeled — bublic spirit in those days in connection ¥
erga Fa Sib person the Association.[...]attacked — Alexander ray, 10s; Thos, Spicer, 10
in elt he was to be fined £1. = Paes pansy ae i Joh[...]ing Graham, 10s; Wm. Alexander, 10s ; Capi
‘the society, the members shall Starbeck, Merrimac, £2; Capta[...]sailors to leave their ships, for
‘assist in recapture of runaway
anishment of robberies, ete.[...]FIRST GOVERNOR: THE LATE CAPTA N
HOBSON, RN. i
‘In Honsoy, our first Governor, was

hose record in the nayy and in the
his country was a bright one. He

= tenant Ho[...]distinguished himself by taking several pir
he ad in 1811, and ‘became lieu- tical vessels with thei[...]rom the swarms of = putation of Lieutenant Hobson in respect
ete our trade in those seas, = the generosity and courage, which
near the island of Cuba, tofit out = so remarkable a feature in the charael
togoinsearchofthem. Lieu- = of[...]

engaged,

vice,
the it

DECLARING THE INDEPENDENCE
OF NEW ZEALAND.

The New Zealand Government Gazette,
sublished at Kororare[...]count of the decla-
ration of the independence of New Zealand,
and the appointment of His Excellency Cap-
tain William Hobson, &.N., as Governor-in-
Chief over the same.

THE CAPITAL.

Tt says: ‘[...]Gittos, Wesley
ig his Excellency’s com-
n-Chief in and over
Zealand, and Her
j in-Council for their separa-
tion from New South Wales. His el-
pleased to appoint Monday la[...]d received invitations.”

KORORAREK A,

* Early in the morning of Monday last, the
day appointed for » laiming His Excel-
Teney as Governor-in-Chief, etc., we were
broud to observe the ships in harbour
decorated with numerous fla: At noon
they fired o salute in honour of the occa-
Sion. The Union Jack floated in front of the
stores of Mes: Thompson and Co.
es o[...]anc

ind also at the Flagstaff Hill.

ible for us in our limited space to

» demonstrations of joy which the
manifested in the evening on

lappy occasion, Tlluminations, fi[...]attle-axes, and the
also vied with their partners in their
vtions of delight. The entire pro-
passed o[...]le-
man who was present.” They forgot the
Press in those days when the dinner was
on, but availed th[...]s a
parely public dinner, and if was given by him
in honour of His Excellency’s appoimtment,
to be Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand.”
Mr. Thompson’s “‘ own friends a[...]Frederick of anaene
The toast of the day was proj in a fer-
vid speech by the chairman, othe Health of[...]ency Captain Hobson, our Goyer-
nor and Commander-in-Chief.” The toast
was drunk with honours, and r[...]he Colonial Seere-
tary and Other Public Officers in New Zea-
land,” to which Mr, Fitzgerald repl[...]

aan pavel, positier interest_in Auckland in landed property in

. At midnight on the = Asjpert, Victoria, Chapel[...]account of
eccne ‘off on t e 18 which is given in the New Zealand A
vious! vertiser and Bay ot Islands Gazette of
fa*gson cast anchor in the har September 24, 1840 :—‘‘ There were[...]ace between_a five-oared
surers to inaugurate the in- belonging to the Surveyor-General and a
‘Auckl[...]irabl contested down 1
‘of the incidents of Old Newin

‘of the colony, 29th of January. verth on voth[...]. g a sither to run into her adversary
tae ie Poe in harbour = take the outside berth (as a matter of[...]cal Eiciiciia Execliency aH ‘ 8 a aground, and in the confusion

cena ey i other boat grounded also[...]NNIVERSARY REGATTA, 1842.

“ ; in evi direction, The harbour-
v aa i. Rough. then g[...]eing what was the m
ia the era ene eo aN aes kept in deep water, and was abreast of)
ee eee BE Eive ne[...]gain.

ee. ae el the Black Angel. of course, came in first

Med ie their wake’ tae the although the[...]tance from

of the Survey Department. The 4 Angel in coming in as when the

and got nearly six ship’s lengths[...]efore she could possibly,
pulled off by her crew. In the meantil
the 6-oared gig, which was a l[...]

THE AN VERSARY REGATTA
i-RACING.

D-
. Wood's, Royal

ing. The New-
“On Monday | e
olonial existence, and—as
tab[...]ion to have beheld that idea effectually
imitated in all its bearings; for, whatever
our equine predilections, in a maritime
eolony of the greatest maritime nation[...]ration of our natal day,” ees ”

HORSE-RACING IN YE OLDEN TIME,

At a meeting of the inhabitants o} o
land and Manukau (says the New eae
Herald and Auckland Gazette, of November
27,[...]otel, on the

rd November, 1841, W. Young, fisq., in the
chair, it was resolved that the Auckland
Race[...]g bill,” consisting of the Auckland
Town Plate, in specie, Wy subscription of
8sovs. each; and the V[...]etting rooms—for human
nature was just the same in 1841 as in 1890—
were at Watson’s Exchange Hotel.

THE A[...]he anniversary races, 1849, are thus ad-
vertised in the New Zealander, of coe 24,
1849: —‘* Annive[...]

win

ina oi[...]g
comments on the subject, which read curi-
ously in the light of present events :— The
> lebrate th[...]rom many of the objections which have been
urged (in our opinion justly), against horge-
ing, and, mor[...]re strength rather than’
fleetness is desirable in horses which are,
with comparatively few exe employe
in farm work, but where—trom our insula
position a[...]en ruffians,” etc., by = liberality, and effort in the designing ane
stating that the races passed o[...]© conducted themselves ina “ Auckland Regatta, in Commemoration 0
most orderly ard honourable manne[...]and jor-General George Dea
omnibuses were unknown in those days), and, Pitt, K.H. The flagship was the[...]t and Captain Smith, and the committee—Maj
home in ship-shape and truly characteristic Bridge, 58th[...]ear (1850), the previou: regatta of 1842 expanded in the regatta’
year's protest in favour of a regatta instead 1850 to twelve races,[...]o have been discredited from a pub:
lished letter in the New Zealander by th
Rey. Thos. Buddle,in which he says :—
“ Being at Epsom yesterday in the course of
ministerial duty, 1 was greatly sho[...]oundation of this colony, Mr. Herbert, 58th
Regt. in the chair, it was proposed by Mr.
Pee house, and[...]all hues and complexions.

course i : ve the
was in excellent order save t
ted ae being[...]

events recall some well-known[...]ere was no watermen’s race, the
Tphearance of a new and beautiful boat,
hion (Lan gley’s) causing t[...]e Union beat Wright's
ee tte and Hawke’s Nancy. In _ the
or hint S88 boats or boats working
a eo not[...]atches,

og

Aun NNR

and they refused to compete innew gig,
S7phy having been built bye Waltanee,
Club f[...]ibed :—“It was a magnificent
one, and such as New Zealand only could
show, Five large and powerful[...]their
ardent and excited, crews, who, like hounds
in the leash, sat ready to dart towards the
appointe[...]ver whose course of four or five miles
they swept in 37 minutes, being 13 minutes
less than that which the whalemen had con-

ed. The two leading canoes came in
nd-neck, the foremost being scarcely
ngth in advance of the other, and the

a painter to have[...]lated
nostrils, arms outstretched, eyeballs roll

in their sockets, he gave expression, ami
the[...]

aivid ! The revival in canoe contests
Root about at the Jubilee will be[...]scription of a Maori
War-cunoe race is that given in the following
yerses by Mr. Alfred Domett in his ‘‘ Ranolf
and Amohia” :—

_ ‘Phen rose the single voice in prouder strain,
Just as the lightning flashed aga[...]ther,

Forward through the foam together,

‘All in quest of vengeful slaughter,

‘Tearing through[...]ky tigures seated round,
With savage satistaction in the sound—
A,stern deep pride with sadness shad[...]ed thundering groans once
‘ aad

New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.

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“Ha! A[...]gh the wave !

Forward—forward all to ?

‘All in quest of foemen’s

They had cleft the foaming w[...]es :— :
“Tt was not customary with the Maoris in
ancient times to appoint regular days fot
canoe r[...]large war-canoes all fully manned, and orn
mented in the highest style of native a
The principal war-c[...]ers of white albatross feathers
eorated the bows. In the spaces betwi
the gunwales and topsides beauti[...]tform upon which the
warriors were enabled to sit in regular rows
in fact, they displayed a wonderful unifor
mity and precision, both in regard to pr
tion and motion, so that the war-can[...]s Waka Tana, from waka, a canoe,
tana, war party. In manning a canoe twe
men known to be skilful in handling
large steer-paddles were placed at the boy
and stern, and co-operated with each other
in guiding the canoe. Two or three othe
persons well v in the chants and song
used on such occasions would relieve eae
other as fugle-men, standing up in the cam
beating time with a paddle or taiaha (orm[...]heads
the rowers an appearance of savage graadet
in singular harmony with the decorations!
the canoe[...]re whit
or black tufts of albatross feathers (Pah
in the ears, W[...]worn by men of distinction. Ra
sometimes occurred in this way. A num
of canoes would set out together, the row
would stimulate each other to put on spee
and in the emulation there would 5
struggle for t[...]

“JT have now to report that on the da[...]ny of reading the above Commissions
was performed in the presence of a concourse
of persons, forty of[...]by your Excel-
lency and the Executive Council of New
South Wales were then read_and published
—the f[...]authority had been asserted over British
subjects in New land ;_ the second,
aequainting the public that H[...]edient to acknowledge
as valid any titles to land in New Zealand
which are not derived from, or confirmed[...]n, E
Hientenant-Governor of the British ae
ements In progr i r
HES ote. ae gress in New Zealand,
“ Whereas Her Majesty Victori
the Unit[...]f Her Majesty’ssubjects who —
are ony settled in New ealpet or who
may hereafter resort hither, And wh[...]ngdom,
bearing date the fifteenth’ day of June, in
the year 1839, by which the former bound.
aries of the Colony of New South Wales are
so extended as to comprehend any part of
New Zealand that is or may be aired in
sovereignty by Her Majesty, her heirs or .
succes[...]y, 1839, to apn
me, William Hobson, Esq., Captain in Her
Majesty’s navy, to be Lieutenant-Governor 7
in and over any territory which is ormay be
acquired in sovereignty by Her Majesty, her
heirs or successors, within that group of
islands in the Pacific Ocean commonly called :
New Zealand, and lying between the lati-
tude 34 degr[...]eorge Gipps, Knight, Captain-General and
Governor-in-Chief in and over the territory
of New South Wales and its dependencies, 2
and the Execu[...]l extending the boun-
daries of the Government of Newin the execution
thereof. Given under my hand and seal,
Kororareka, this 30th day of January, »
and in the third year of Her Majesty
“© WiniiA[...]

mself constrained to issue in regard to the

ings of the New Zealand Company's

meer Port Nicholson. Ina despatch in

erence to their proceedings, Governor.
ikon ‘s[...]bers,
and their wealth, by far the most important
in the colony. But it is to be regretted that,
from the impunity with which they have
heretofore, in defiance of the Government,
encroached on the lan[...]-

We have before us _a circular
eember 15, 1840, in which M Eagar and
Co., the proprietors of the New Zealand Ad-
vertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette,[...]lonial Secretary,

» Shortland, that the Acts of New South

ales regarding the printing and publish-
i[...]r, and proprietor of every news:
Peper be printed in some part thereof,
under a penalty of £100. davi[...]printed for the more
fey bringing them to justice in any case of
li 3 © proprietors of newspapers then
were in as bad

@ way as their successors
to-day[...]cient sureties, which was to
considered forfeited in case of any con-
Viction under the Act. The penal[...]ed at the

; Acco TTR MAKKAH

jam a

36 New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.

Mii A TOR KOMMR[...]hem from Her Majesty a free grant
to that extent, in return for the expense the
Company had incurred in importing immi-
grants into the colony. But almos[...]the land of Whanganui,
to a distance of 9 miles, inNEW ZEALAND PRESS IN

TIMES.

discretion of the Court, as in cases of high
misdemeanours, or by banishment fro[...]manifest, the Government of the British colon,
of New Zealand does not wish a free press,
while, on the[...]t a meeting of subscribers and ol
pans was called in a day or two at Jol

oyal Hotel, for, as Robert B[...]nation
These qualities will effect our triumph. I
New Zealand the Press must be to all
tents and purposes in public matters
chained as air.” Bravo, Eagar and Co. ! ©
is satisfactory to learn that the New Zea
Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette[...]

ong all the colonists of New Zealand few
AMON iy could say with the Inte Mr. Swai
provfnat they came owt in the yoar One of
fon Colony ; still fewer would be[...]uch a eae
munication, and the shillings were few. In
1845, however, a murder was committed at
Slough.[...]homes was found, had caught the express train for
in Great Britain, and after long, wearisome, = Londo[...]could not be
and often painful voyaging, arrived in, what = overtaken, probably considered that he had
to them must have seemed like a new world, made his escape, and would be able to lose[...]rial of the telegraph, ‘They

he the earth, but in every country under = symbol for Qu, but this dii[...]ormation so thorough, that, = come, and the clerk in London was puzzled

pe[...]realise the conditions of life in the year = by a message desiring him to *
+240 re[...]able difli- = reasoning with himself that no word in thé
even to the old, i b = English language bega[...]the Kwa,” which again was pr

had been mistaken in declaring that theidea = stopped. This went oa un[...]he thus = miles of wires had been laid, and were in
summarily disposed of the question:—“ As = ra[...]as 2 evidently one of the shortest of lines,
only in its infancy with regard both to com- on mission premises on the Congo River in
fort and to speed. Third-class carriages were Afr[...]le difficulty at starting havi
hardly better than New Zealand cattle tracks 2 been overcome, in a manner with whicl
of the present day, being not[...]urgh, = them, and lads to whom the art of reading
in something less than nine hours, all this was 4 mystery are taking lessons in the use
was yet in the future, while the electric tele- of the teleg[...]the British nation, by
Scientific curiosity, not in the least likely to the abolition of er in the British West
lave any appreciable effect upon the world. Indies, in 1838, had at last purged itself from
ires had bee[...]n eye-witness of its horrors—
fad been ordered, In 1839 the patentee: William Knibb, a Baptist missi[...]himself in the great city. Some one suggested ©

seemed spe[...]s Lord. hearkeved and heard, A few
‘earlier the New England Aa

0 at a mee
Hetty Bee Bed meeting, hel[...]few
Rectepies pe Bapaat Chureh, took
di +.
hail, in the midst of which,
company stepped
i i is obscur[...]g to the glaring injustice
many social conditions in Hngland, and
their statement was unanswerable, th[...]ther
Ta y The tena was at that time mostly
qe out in farms by the great owners, who
eonsidered the ten[...]he rent; and the
yote, of course, was to be given in support of
the “landed interest.” The farmers[...]tide of righteousness, and

the end is not yet.

In England, in the year 1840, and during
the succeeding quarter[...]t was
not until the abolition of University Tests in

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1871 that t[...]y moved by the Holy
Ghost,” when they knew, and in many cases
it was well known that they only ** tools”
orders” in order to obtain or to retain they
Ciuifortable in[...]ing trained, and when at leng
an attempt was made in that direction
medical students, doctors, profess[...], all joined im
placing every imaginable obstacle in the way)
of the enterprise. Now there are sevent[...]still obliged
seek the completion of their course in forei
countries.[...]ocate her cause—if he decline to
lift his voice in her favour, - I say hei
less than man.” When th[...]ing on from
east to west— a

For menend are one in spirit, and an instinct beats
along, i

Round the[...]ack
alike from the fuller, freer life awaiti
them in the future, and towards which, how
ever, much remains’ undone, great sti
have been made in the past half century.

In or about the year 1848, by order of
Austrian gene[...]irth were publit
flogged for the crime of helping in
struggle for the liberty of their countr
In 1850, General Haynau visited Engla
Among the sigh[...]rclay and Per!
and as was usual, entered his name in 4

got ab[...]whips of the draymen
‘night serve to do to him in a measure as he
had had done to the ladies, and w[...]ward, of how
he was at last resened by the police in a boat
on the river, into which he nearly tumbled in
his scared haste, may be found in the Free
Library, in the Illustrated London News of
September 7, 1850,[...]ility of the
d that such a thing not being likely
in, they had not thought in
any action. Many thought
and si ith pride that a[...]themselves to have a right to hold up
their heads in that way. Fifteen years later,
f those scares whi[...]is not the rule of the
governing class, broke out in Jamaica, a
martial law was proclaimed ay Governor[...]flogging,” he said, “and hanging
like fun.” In the number of the flogged
were both men and women[...]a storm of indignation was aroused which
resulted in Governor Eyre’s being brought to
trial. But the[...]ed to the
living,

Could such things be done now, in this
ia 1890? We may eee answer, No.

here is evi[...]ur nation who think it needless
to regard justice in their dealings with what
they ave pleased to term an inferior race, but
in these last days when the prophecy of
Daniel is fu[...]ny show run to
and fro and knowledge be increased in the
earth, deeds of cruelty can no longer be done[...]e
make concealment impossible, that which
oa done in secret is now told upon the

ousetops, and the li[...]seen, Physical diffi-
culties there were no doubt in plenty, but
the far more serious moral and social[...]righteous gain practically opeless’
ele Butler, in his famous * Analogy,’
describes the possibilities of a nation
founded on righteousness :—“In such a
State there would be no such thing as
fact[...]e-
cuted by the united strength of it. Some
would in a high r contribute, but all
would in some contribute to the public
rosperity ; and in it each would enjoy the
fruit of his own virtue.[...]es, so the: would be
sufficiently secured from it in their neigh-
pours. For cunning and false self-interest,
confederacies in injustice, ever slight, and
accompanied with fact[...]nd would be found
mere Ent ish folly and. Wenn ee
in opposition against, wisdom, ee lic spi Ho[...]

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40
‘aa[...]ham by what is facetiously called pro- wickedness in the house of the wicked, thé
Pees akan few attra[...]of Righteousness. They refused, and wor- there be in our hands the gain of
phipped instead the gods of[...]nations, and especially to the more highly = tors in full, this honest gentleman has set_
an example o[...]his day life and good, and death
country, realise in some measure the and evil, therefore choose life,[...]Earl of Onslow. He is th
the Jubilee celebrations in Auckland. grand-nephew to his immediate predecema[...]ie concerns it. died without surviving male issue in 1870.

ee Rents at oe Hillier On- = earldom was created in 1801, but the baro
slow, Fear Bee ep ye tpiehsel and St. | of Onslow in 1716. ‘The first baronet was
wenn IBS wont ose es was born = Mayor of London in 1649, and the barone
ee ono cooree A ugustus Cran[...]Hon, Thomas: Charles II. Several of this family, in the

AAO

ry were distinguished in Parlia-
life, and Ministerial offices, and one
of[...]on, and at Christ Church, Ox-
eded to the Peerage in 1870, and
appointed a Lord-In-Waiting of
household. From February,
appointment as Governor of New
in 1888, he occupied the useful post
of Under-S ary[...]d Carrington,
G.C.M.G., Governor of the colony of New
South Wales, Jharles Robert Oarrington,
third Baron Carrington, who was born in
1843, at High Wycombe, in the County of

he, Queet
1887,[...]y College, Cam-
bridge, taking the degree of B.A. in 1863, In
1865 he entered the Royal Horse Guards, be-
¢ame lieutenant in 1867 and captain in 1869,
e is a captain in the Buckinghamshire
Militia and the Deputy -Lieutenant and
Magistrate for that County. He was in the
ouse of Commons from 1865 to 1868,
as member for High Wycombe, and sue-
ceeded to his fi peerage in_ 1868.
The first peer of th ‘ily was Mr. Robert[...]o was created Baron Car-
Mngton, of Upton, Notts, in 1797. His son,
the second baron, in 1939 assumed the name
of Carrington by Royal lice[...]les during his visit
ndia, and has been a captain in the corps

#, Gentlemen-at-Arms, He married in 1878
4 on. Cecilia Margaret, eldest daughter
f the fifth Baron ¢ ffield, and succeeded
in ia Loftus as Governor of New South Wales
85. He is wealthy, possessed of broad[...]ales has, by his unflagging oe

and participation inin the Baltic and Black Seas in

1854-56, and was rewarded with the Baltic,
Crimea, and Turkish medals, and was after-
wards in China and Hongkong, receiving the
China medal and Fatsham clasp for his ser-
vices in the Canton river and other places in
1857. In 1858 he was specially mentioned,
and awarded the Indian medal for his ser-
vices in Indian waters. He was appointed
commander of the Rinaldo, and was se-
cond in command of the naval forces
under Captain Heneage[...]ort,

ct British subjects and interests at

mtorr in 1868; and later in that year he
was commander of the flotilla of boa[...]rd Charles Scott was i
2 mand of H.M.s. Bacchante in 1881, al

SIR JOHN THURSTON.

; +, F.R.GS.
Sir John[...]photograph b farley, of San ! rancisco),
was born in the year 36, is a mem-
ber of the old Gloucesters[...]that name descending from Richard

Turstin, who, in the year 1389 was Lord of
the ancient Manor of pe[...]part of Sir John’s life was spent atse
chiefly in Kast Indian waters. Leaving Ind
in consequence of severé illness, Sir
visited Australia, over swhich he travelled
extensively. In 1866, Sir John Thurston
was appointed by Lord Der[...]ur years. Upon the carlier political
difficulties in Fiji reaching a_climax, and
upon the resignation[...]was again nominated as special adviser to =

mma

New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.

oO CTT

iefs in September, 1874, for
conferring with His Excel. 7[...]the West:
c, April to June, 1884; s' e
to England in connection with th ;
mission appointed to inqui

High C m
administe

nto the claims

cts to lands in Fiji, Mi

Comm: on the Anglo:

sion for the discu[...]terests of German and British subjects
spectively in the South Seas, and for the
more precise demareation of British (am
German spheres of influence in those epi D
August 3, 1885; again, administe!

5-6; Lieutenant-Governor

government in 18! ver
1886; Governor of Fiji, High Commission
P[...]gest daughter of the
John Berry, Esq., of Albury, New 8
Wales, who, with her children, is now

ing Auck[...]land. 4

MR. J. H. UPTON, MAYOR OF ©
AUCKLAND. |
In such a matter as this, an important
was ta[...]

nd went into partnership with his

eller and sta[...]r twenty
years Mr. Upton has taken great interest in
Murch m He has been a member of
the Dio nod for many years and a
member of the General Synod when. held in
Christchurch, Auckland, and Dunedin, He
js also a[...]ars ago. Mr. Upton can
thus show as good a record in the public ser-
vice as any gentleman in Auckland, and, as
a fitting climax, he has recent[...]ed without opposition to the
ayoralty of Auckland in 1886, and served
or three terms in su ion unopposed,
fe Ai Devore was born in Wiltshire in 1843,
ma was educated at Devizes, in the same
> founty. He came out to Melbourne in

AS

ih HE

1859 while a lad of sixteen, and

the study of the law in ‘the oflice or we
Fleetwood, solicitor. In 1862 he came to
New Zealand, and having been seized with
the “yello[...]a digger
for six months on one of the goldfields in
Otago, Becoming tired of his occupation, he
retur[...]ey came to Anckland, and he accom.
pented them ae In 187] he was admitted
oO practice, and went into p[...]esult. About this time he
stood for Ponsonby Ward in the City Coun-
cil, and was returned at the top of the poll.
His election as Mayor came in due course,
and he fulfilled the duties of his hi[...]d man, and wescatcely expected
to see him with us in Auckland again,
the ancient warrior said he had h[...]me. wi
was from the first one of the most
spirits in the warlike section of the
natives, It was[...]

We are fighting in Christian times.” The
performance of the ancien[...]re yan the pis to fire a tre-
mendous volley, and in the confusion to
uae through them and escape, Thi[...]d ohild

New Zealand to succeed Governor G
Browne.

Sir George[...]that he should

s
=n = Sanatorium to obtain iti

New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.

awwwuwzaCN_. AA[...]visit us on this our Jubilee, and in all proba.
bility we will never see him again. 4[...]George Grey, K.C.B,, was_ born
Lisbon, Portugal, in 1812, three days afte
the death of his father, Co[...]a successful course
there gained him a captaincy in the 83rd
Regiment before he was 24 years old. He
soon after retired, and in 1839 he took q
leading part in exploring the interior 6
what is now denominated[...]that post till 1845,
he was nominated Governor of New Zea
e arrived in November, 1845, when
Northern War was dragging it[...]broken, and the war ended. 8
feorge returned Home in 1853, and wa
terwards appointed Governor of @
olony. In 1861 he was again despatched 1

His[...]ssary t sapitulate it. Is itnot
the chronicles of New Zealand—Han

ities, but[...]

7s firteral nation’s homage in our Jubilee
‘0-day |
To such’ fitly modelled[...]es
‘yea, for South’s sublimest music, sung ‘in poet's Ss aie tune y ‘h, tor

nob

Clothed in self-created beauty—great with honour,
ve, and[...]s Marsden. came, and
Christian message bare,

And in God's vast open Temple prayed his soft
proemial p[...]band,

Strode across the ocean wilderness to this new
Goshen land ;

From the rule of gallant Hobson, a[...]is day to r’se o’er
paltry blame,

To rejoice in better things and ways, to keep in
worthy fame

All that hist’ry yields of goodness—all that noblest

is and best,
In the lives whose toil is ended, who in slumb’ring
Teatness rest,
Or fia few inin thund’rous midnight—soon again
like glorious[...]sceptre’s

rts, O fair Zealandia, can glory in
of gath'ring grandeur from the
orth,

south, in Ioud response, one

And from sturdier
Amen com[...]wildest glen
And our souls are fe
Sound of

oleed in mighty ‘spoken tribute to our dauntless
Pioneer[...]And the mig wich high erect upflung its
columns in the flo _

Quickly spanned the yhwning breaches w[...]days agone— solid piles — r

Dead, yet living in a ripened fame the present 2 Merchant-mans[...]

nec

1 gg) n[...]ame which ever lights the feet
righteonsness— :
In Ge igre that makes a nation great—the truth
moh[...]mors from the b
ders ofthe sea | ,

Centre vigour in their sweetness as they s
athwart the lea ;

And[...]t, su-

blime—

Whe Himself naale Jabour sacred in the infantide
of Time! 1

Tell we, too, of lightn[...]m glows ;
Where perennial founts of healing play, in wn¢tch-
Jess beauty still,
And the panoply of gr[...]ty years—it awe
swelleth stil

Closes round u-, in us, o'er us, dominating

ocean keel,
And the migh[...]ss! Thus 4

‘ayer flows forth to Thee ! k

Look in gracious benediction down upon

Jubilee!
S. CLARK[...]ght
ape ee irthright may we prove
Fall of dignity in impulse as our world of progress

move[...]

Hn HAH KR

47

ATER

NEW ZEALAND’S Ju BILEE,

T, (1840.)
qiLpREN of Engl[...]er set
; siden years ago,
‘And, while it floats in triumph yet
‘And loyal bosoms beat below,
Tn th[...]Lo! there the Southern halls display,
Marshalled in bountiful array,
What Nature gi .
See b sre, and everywhere,
The joyous multitudes that meet
In pleasure-park or crowded square,
Where flowers em[...]ll to the ships on the sea,
Rejoice with the land in her Jubilee
nel thes vc and the voice of the shor[...]When ttngland’s greatest Av gonaut
Lay anchored in the lonely sound,

his bounty ght
i the waste unc[...]and tutored hand,

strives

rth, at last
Refote s in her J erty bg
nd casts her tribute full and
Befor[...]imeval wood,
And sullen pa, with triple palisade,
In every hideous form of savage art arrayed,
Ere yet[...]ies by the encir. ling sea,
Like sparkling jewels inin their cold embrace
‘To wintry skies and stormy[...]rs.
Her stately form to softer skies !
Tho’ set in vaster seas, caressed
By freer winds, and strange[...]Daughter of England, you may trace
‘The mother in her fair young face.
Nor in the outward form alone,
But, with each parent gra[...]till forward on the upward, arduous way,
‘Till, in the record of the coming age,
Thine, too,[...]

inant ai

New Zealand's pcre se oo

‘;OMMITTEE:

Start[...]

ranmurngunann imc[...]iss ‘ot people ever before congregated together in Auckland
Bicol delat was given to the festivities by the presence of His Excellency the

Fi arles Se in ¢ and of th
low ; Admiral Lord Charles Scott, in command
oS. wn Bs, the Governor of New South Wales, th

i dron; His Excellency ng ‘ I[...]the Flagship of the Station (A.M,

ag represented in port by t \
hea nus. Deol aia FLMS. Lizard. Lords Onslow and Carrington arrivet
M.S. fF

in Auckland on January 98th, and were accorded an en[...]ich, taken from he ver
complete reports published in the New Zuatanp Herat, will be found below,

Tun fétes p[...]different events. A
the principal establishments in the vieinifj
the Northern Roller Flour Mills, @
W[...]bor
Board Offices were similarly adorned, whi
the New Zealand flag was gaily flying
the first time from[...]presented. Numbers generate magnetism,
and never in the history of Auckland, sine:
her foundation as a province, were such
masses of people to be seen in her streets.
On all hands was to be seen the flag of
New Zealand on the flagstafis, and thos
who looked up[...]elt that after the
scenes of to-day we had made a new
departure—the first pulses of life in the
young nation had begun to throb.

THE DAY.

T[...]with

sightseers.
THE WHARVES, &c.

The shipping in port was gaily decked
with bunting from stem to s[...]rs. Cruickshal
and Co.’s warehouse, conspicuous in &
line being the Union Jack flanked
the Stars and[...]ing, one of the fla
having upon it the words ‘* New Zeal
Insurance Company,” while from the of
of t[...]ll the
of the handsome building
ith nikau, which, in front of 4
was relieved

THE JUBILEE P[...]the variou:
Societies marshalled into procession in re:
alia, headed by their banners, the spee-
tacle presented was an animated one in the
Vicinity of the rendezvous at Ponsonby
Reserv[...]-
Past nine

a.m.) Marshal T. Cole had suc
eeeded in anging the procession, and it
Moved off headed by[...]ables
Walker and Kelly—followed by Marshal
Cole in a carriage, and then succeeded the
Artillery Band[...]followed the various societies and
organisations in the order hereunder
named as drawn by lot :—

T[...]ing two abreast.
They were preceded by a carriage in which
were Grand Master, R. Farrell ; D, u[...]

manual fire engine,
time, a horse reel[...]erettes, garlands of flowers, ferns, foli-
, &e., in chaste designs. The decorations

of the Fire Brig[...],
C.R., who acted as marshal ; District
Executive in carriages, W. T. Webb,
G.C.R.J., Webley, treasure[...]ion: There =

were 115 children, 50 girls dressed in white
being in one of Winstone’s vans drawn by
four horses, and 65 boys in a lifeboat on one

New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.[...]ruddy and bappy, and a good
secimen of “ Young New Zealand,” who m
they worthily represented. ‘T[...]he
most interesting features of the process
sion.
New Zealand Federated Seamen’s Union
40 members, Th[...]ecorated with the
Union Jack and other flags, and in the bo
were a crew with oars up, the crew bein
am[...]tary
. Gallagher (treasurer), and Nixon, tm
shal. In the boat was displayed the Ney
Zealand flag, and[...]their band.
women walked alternately, the former
in white clothing, with straw hats, ang}
g ro[...]

hysique of the men, in their tasteful
made up a charming picture, and
the tout ensemble was complet Their ax
earance in the procession was the feature
of the day, and al[...]the incident was one
which will become historic, in these children
of the Isles of the 5 on Jubilee D[...]welcome to their brethren
and to the colonists of New

ph

costume,

Zealand. f
> procession was cl

d[...]s, ma ing the total esti-
gated number of persons in the procession
1500. The procession was over

and[...]Government
House grounds, and took up a position in
rear of the Volunteers, who formed the
guard of h[...]as lined
with Volunteers, who also ted'the police
in regulating the°crowd. In compliment
to the Rarotongans, they were allotted
specially the place in front, opposite the
platform where His Excellency[...]y-street
and Queen-strees to the wharf. The scene
in Que: treet was the most effective of
the day, as[...]amcars laden with passenger:
Who had been blocked in getting down the
Street,

At th

about
m

end of[...]would be ied out
by their own exertions, and was in honour
of the fiftieth anniversary of the foundat[...]as intended as a token of gratitude that
we lived in this favoured colon: , and as.
a tribute of affec[...]to the
Protestant Hall, Newton, where they
formed in a circle, while a few a pro.
ee remarks were made[...]which
the refreshments provided were partaken|
of in the hall,

VOLUNTEER MUSTER.

The Volunteers must[...]drillshed
shortly after nine o’clock, and fell in by
companies under their respective officers,
but[...]of the various
Friendly Societies which took part in the
procession, and others are members of the
Fir[...]Rowing Clubs. How-
ever, there were about 200 men in the
ranks. The two naval companies were
paraded a[...]to Government House. Ce
Shepherd, of course, was in supreme com-—
anes and Major Skinner was scutes
Surgeon-Major Dawson and Staff pon
Erson were also present in uniform. s a
No. 2 Garrison Band was in attenda
and after Colonel Shepherd had giv[...]

54 New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.

equa nn

nie[...]inces-street, and the guard of honour
was drawn w in front of Government
House, and on Bis Excellency[...]he Governor received
the addresses on the terrace in front of
the main door of Government . House.
Amo[...]tralasian Squadron),
Lord Carrington (Governor of New
South Wales), Sir J. B. Thurston (Go-
yvernor of[...]e ys sovereignty, the European settlers wend

eee in number and weak in resources, and the work
few jTonisation was carried on in the presence of &
humerous and warlike native -po[...]peehe most friendly, relationship with the native
in the Under Her Majesty’s beneficent rule we enjo[...]ry education is absolutely, freq
to all. Wn Ghild in New Zealand is permitted to be
to Mvithout the elemen[...],

Bebe Hislop (Minister of Education), Auckland, New Zealand, January 29, 1890.
Bishop and Mrs. Cowie,[...]), Mr. Pullen
(Private Secretary to the Commauder-in-
Chief), Mr. Spence (Private Secretary to Sir
Joh[...]delegates
from each of the societies taking part inin the formal words)
of an address would, it was tho[...]of our feelings, therefore I have to say
to you, in the name of the citizens, that
offer to you a bea[...]hom I shor
like to name. There is the Governor Of
New South Wales, the Governor of that
great. colony w[...]Thurston, whom we also desire to we
come, Always in Auckland—and Jam su
in every part of New Zealand—but 1 thir
especially here, we are alwa[...]e fleet, and there
fore I have very much pleasure in @
especially stating that I offer, on behalf 0
th[...]have the honour to
mest that you will permit me, in the
name of the citizens of Auckland, to present[...]Onslow,
oe St. cr crct St. George, Gove
jommander-in-Chief x
New ena ‘ief of the Colony of
ay it please Your Exc[...]e
ati anniversary of the foundation of the
ony of New Zealand, we, the Mayor and
5 Councillors,[...]

_NwsusininanAARU[...]tisa fact that Tshould
be held grievously wanting in my daty
were I not faithfully to record so import[...]-
_tion by the Queen, that they have called
forth in her representative in this colony.
(Cheers.)

Replying to the personal[...]Hs ExceLLency said that unfortunate
circ*mstances in his family prevented the
fulfilment of the promis[...]but
he was glad that his fir ay should be
ushered in by so auspicious an event
as the celebration of t[...]e selected by the representatives of the

le, and in such matters he deferred en-
tively to the advice[...](cheers)—who was endeavouring to take his
place in fulfilling the duties of hospital
towards another of Her Majesty’s represer
tatives in Australia at the other end of the
colony. (Cheers.) Indeed, the only difii-
culty which he experienced in the admini
tration of the Government was that non[...]d see what the Governor
could possibly want to do in any other, and
each of them pointed out that his duty was
to spend twelve months out of every year
in their city. (Laughter and cheers.
Even Sir Boyle Roche never claimed tha
his bird could be in more than two places at
- once, but the wildest f[...]h divisibility
as was expected of the Governor of New
Zealand. (Laughter and prolonged cheers.)

: MESS[...]ommands
to offer congratulations to the people of
New Zealand on fiftieth year of prosperity

1 good go[...]he fiftieth
ry of Her Majesty's acquisition of
of New Zealand.
“KNUTSFORD.”

LORD CARRINGTON’S SP[...]from His Excellency Lord Carrington,
Governor of New Sonth Wales. (Cheers.)
Lorp CARRINGTON, on advanc[...]t by the people of Auckland
towards the colony of New South Wales, ©
with which it is my good fortune[...]those gifted beings
who think that they can take in a nations

Before th’
like to

= futureataglance; yet, ina happy fortnight

nent in this happy country,

see that you New Zealanders, by your
industry, your frugali[...]

The Mayor then[...]and His Excelleney’s
family.

ORANGE SOCIETY’S ADDRESS,

Farrell (Grand Master of the
iety),[...]ency,—We, the members
of the Orange Lustitution in Auckland, and loyal
and devoted subjects of Her M[...]sion, being not only
the Jubilee of the colony of New Zealand, but the

Jubilee of the Orange Institution in this colony.
We trust that the ties which bind us[...]amongst us;

ing will tend to mar the amity which
in this our adopted country. We feel assured
that yo[...]ich might
lead to even a. semblance of disruption in the Em-
Pire of which she is the esteemed and exa[...]ment of the Jub
and of the fiftieth year of
a eee in this
ou rightly assume that d
ae of the
‘ealand[...]ee, of those ae

Waver!

a ee on tinted

placed in the wind
leasing effect.

hames Hotels

latter ho[...]a large crowd to
rire
antly li, ir
ful ere ‘The New Zeal
made a ane) ieplay tae
as the nge Building
the windows in the fa*ga
number, were blo
(red and blue) o[...]

mittee, did all in their power, to make
everyone comfortable. By thr[...]imated at
fully 2000 people. Amongst the visitors in
the earl) facendon were Paul Tuhaere and
his son[...]ando manned by about 100 jolly
tars, who included in their number a drum
and fife band, to whose music[...]at no accident
of any kind has been reported, and in almost
every case the races passed off without di[...]acre, J. J.
‘Holland, D. F. Evans, J. Waymouth,
in, D, H. Ross, ‘I. McEwin, C.
Reynolds, A. Buchan[...]races: Mr. J. Waymouth,

B. Graham. — Starter:

in. Measnrer: Mr,
rer: Mr. J. Waymouth,
Umpir[...]

windward positions. Abreast[...]e

““—OAgH AHORA

the second place, owi

in the contees ‘the Sieee |
the Tawera by a few
resulted in a ‘win for th
being second, 'Taweta

TuN[...]

oR NAMONERHNNNNL[...]Bay, the May took the first Position, but, in
the run down to the dock, the Mignonette dis-
pla[...]me little
distance behind, and the May Queen away
in the rea with but, little alteration these
nositions were maintained round the buoy in
Ransitoto Channel, and the second run
round, the[...]t
down towards the North Head. As the
wind failed in the Channel they straggled
badly, and several gave up. The Alice
ame in first after dark, with the Erg
second. A t[...]

NAAN

‘Anderson,[...]ent came up with a gr
rush, aud Rataplan also put in a stron
claim, the result being a magnificent rac[...]of the TakapunaJockey
Club was held to-day on the new race:
course. ‘The attendance was the largest
t[...]ed at a luncheon spread ina
marquee, and provided in the very best style
by Mr. Robson, of the Commerc[...]on Octopus; dividend, £1

The winner was bought in by the owner”

7[...]

and rising with the fayouriteat[...]ough top weight, was favourite on
the machine and in the betting. Mr, Wattie
sent his field away toa moderate start. They
all swept round the track of the course in a
cluster, but then the leading division eut
out[...]nd one of the most magnifi-
cent struggles ensued in the straight which
has been seen here for many ye[...]reached she gave

with a commandi

Patchwork put in a

apenas most eae a

judge awa

by ahead, Montro[...]. vinta b
9st 2lb (McMiniman)

a Stet eee r

exp

in getting sch a tee

but after several i

were let away in fair

going to the front, follow
lvidere, Grace

vi
a

iocethe ata

test in the straight Lo
e Grace Dar!

Time, lm 3ls[...]

H/T ATMNMMNNRN N[...]terms till nearing the
home turn, here Teksum put in his claim,
and an interesting struggle down the straight
resulted in a win for Musket’s son. Divi.
dend, £3 2s. {
AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY. f
Of course the fracas and complaints in ree
gard to the riding of Fergus and Johnson in

arke’s ch m Dolosa, 6st 7Ib,
"
2)[...]s been forwarded to thi
Auckland Racing Club :— In the Handicap:

teeplechase a complaint was laid b[...]kay be cautioned for striking Ferga
with his whip inin taking
His Excellency and party to Devonport to
s[...]rington were watching with
keen interest the race in which the boats of
the men-o’-war were engaged.[...]orship the Mayor of
Devonport (Mr. M. Niccol) was in waiting,
with carriages to convey the party to th[...]wtenant Fitzgerald. All th
party were, of zourse, in mufti. They were
conducted to seats on the[...]

rds shown in all ¢ es and to their
quality. Some fine specimens of poultry
were shown, and in pigeons and canaries
were first-class exhi[...]

‘nv arm mac TE L[...]ths,
ir : A. Bluck, Ist, 2nd, and 3rd prizes. Pe-
in ducks, erested, under six months, pai
W. Emery, I[...]prizes with the birds —
which won first prizes in their respective”
sections :—Craig and Duane,[...]red game co*ckerel, under twelve months,
champion in classes 1 to 32; Colonel Dawson, —

buff or cinnamon eco*ckerel, under twelve
months, champion in classes 42 to 59; Mrs, ™
''’. Hyde, laced Wyandotte pullet, under”
twelve months, champion in classes 60 to 79,
and in classes 120 to 122; F. A. White, silvel
apepsled co*ckerel, champion in classes 84 to”
101; E. Mander, Houdan pullet, und
twelve months, champion in classes 102
113; Henry Wade, white co*ckere[...]

=
First Day's Celebration, =

THEIR ARRIVAL IN AUG

Tue team Of cricketers from New South
Wales, whose, visit has been eagerly looked[...]shores,
Upon getting their luggage on shore, the
New South Welshmen, in company with a
number of local players, were take[...]establishments and factories, were
closed to-day in celebration of the Jubilee.
There was no demonstr[...]z

IN THE S80

i

To-pay was,

WVTTT ATTACKS ni[...]e to the celebration of the Jubilee of
the colony in Auckland was evidenced
in a most unmistakable manner by the
eat crowds of h[...]ring the
afternoon, congregated off the foreshore in
the vicinity of the dock, it was found im-
practi[...]radually increasing their pace, swayed to
and fro in perfect unison, to the wild
chants of the excited fuglemen in the
centre of each craft. Through a mistake
natur[...]lendid
race between them took place, and resulted
in the Momoni, manned by the Huntly hapu,
winning by[...]was found impossible to
keep the spectators back, in order that the
dance might begin. There were only[...]icemen present, and they were
practically useless in the matter of kee;
ing back the public. No provis[...]one. ‘The Maoris
finding it impossible to dance in the field, —
moved forward to the racecourse proper in
front of the grandstand. Here again the two
or th[...]e native women number-_
ing about 40, all attired in light flowing gar- 7
ments, started one of their[...]o desist dancing, owing to ”
the crowd prualink in upon them, The
men then attempted to give a war danee,
but were unableto do so in consequence of
the people pressing in on them. The natives”
who were to have given th[...]os,
and the result was that the former did no
put in an appearance. The dusky warrior
were gradually f[...]through the crowd on
the steps of the grandstand in order to reach
a place where they could get a vie[...]ke place at
o’clock, and the Artillery Band was in W
ing at that hour to march them off on thei
arri[...]t, however, until eleven that the native
arrived, in charge of Mr. Porter. There we
150 of them, all Waikato natives, the No
ern natives not taking any part in the pr
ceedings. They were soon formed in lin

ca ke[...]

with them inNew Zealand at Auck-
land. hat is my word with respec[...]oria sent her mana and her favour to
ands, called New Zealand. ‘he proof
of Waitangi. “In my
time to confirm the unity of

id under the man[...]oe AMNK Ni

TONGANS,
The natives of etre
sent in Auckland on a
xcellency the Governor
werepresent[...]n of Great ‘rita,
Victoria, has heen pleased to
in the year 1888. I wou
Governor, that it will be a[...]Nevertheless it ie
of Rarotonga 49 years i
vance in prosbertyiaaay civil

as New Zealand done.
Governor, of our loyalt:

toria, an[...]min

The Hart o!
tase

arol ‘ay — Y our
event in ie celeb
vities, and your presen
augers Ai[...]

New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.

MMINMMCICI ATCT AM[...]him in true Rarotongan fashion. The natives
then brought in the presents, which consisted”
of mats made from the breadfruit tree ; mats_
made in the old heathen days; a pair of
shoes, etc. The P[...]ndoe, 2 ; J. Pollock, 3.

Jupmrr CHampionsarre or New ZEALAND

—This was the event of the day; but, a[...]ner, Tangaia, execute
a good dive of about 55yds. In the race
0yds five also competed, and the[...]

in oun eM eM inven ror
JueiLEE HAnpicar, 300yds. —[...]ther, oe nae en ane
Duthie, the scratch man, swam in grand
style, but could not catch the leaders, and[...]by L. M. Meyers, Major Ander-
son was sole judge in this event. L. M. free aeaen
Myers, Gigli Ar Smit[...]lly thirty the water, still r
competitors started in this race, and akeen ® progress,

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(Opal); 8. i
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Among the m[...]ylor and Mrs. Toll:
ve re

Jubilee ball in honor of His Excellency = ton and Mrs, Denniston[...]IES.
manders and officers of the fleet at present in Mesdames Armitage,
Auckland harbour, besides a la[...]e to
the officers for the hearty assistance
given in this respect. An ‘adjournment
was made for supp[...]of Onslow

and Mrs. James Russell in a double set, the BBN
other partners in the set being as follows :— Misses Isaac[...]

Tae
remnuunni TKN[...]eeable tempering of ge.

the heat. The course was in beautiful order ; arly in the afternoon, before the
notwithstanding the rec[...]Lord Carrington arrived on the €0t
immediately in front of the stand and At ubout a quarter to one p.m., the
bounding the wall being covered in rich regal “drag,” a four-in-hand, was 8
bloom, whilst outside the charming li[...]r-house near the luncheon rooms, the re were also in the drag,
well-laid-out Pee and masses of fi Lord[...]ub was Hi . Hislop, Mr. E. C. Meysey-1!
manifest. In the avenue parallel with the 2 sun, His Wo[...]

In the afternoon the stewards held a
eeti nd_ endors[...]he flag to an exce!
settled into their si
to show in fron
stand she held half-a-
Delia claee Anes aa
e[...]npicar HurpL
horse to receive
eight flights of hu
In. Out.
67 99 pi

9st
31— 49 Mr. J

31—170 Mr.[...]She
had at ane
io Titokowaru’s jt
was vel sty!
in gran
was simply a
oautiful free:

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76 New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.

OM TMM AAA ANCNKN HN KOCUNA IK

easy winner five lengths in front of Pai

nell, who was about the same distance ahead
of Black Joe, while Chemist, a long way in
the rear, whipped in the field. ‘Time, 3m
50s. Dividends: Tnside, £[...]eing close handy next, while the field was
closed in by Souvenir. Across the fee
stretch Miss Cole was[...]had to take out the whip to Miss
Cole to keep her in her place, while Leolantis
began to go up, and by[...]gamely he could
ach Mary, who won with something in
hand by half a length; Miss Cole was close
handy in third place, and then came Can
bria, The Dreamer, Souvenir, and Master
Pat in that order, Time, Imin l7sec. Divi-
dends : Insid[...]e l0sovs out
of the stakes. One mile and a-half.

In. Out.
129—138 Mr. H. Harrison’s br h Raglan,[...]start. Hilda and Patchwork wet
the first to show in front, but Antelope
joined them, and at the top t[...]ork, Antelope, Fabulous, Leorina,
aglan following in the order mentio1

By the time the bottom t[...]xt. Racing round the bottom
Montrose got his head in front, but y
they reached the far corner Antelope[...]be denied, he had establishe
two lengths’ lead in his favour before
Derby stand was reached, where[...]0sovs out of the Stakes.
three miles and a-half.

In. Out. ie
9— 74 Mr. N. Dickey’s ch g Reernit,[...]they negotiated the gorse fence, )
Takapau jumped in avery slovenly
As the horses came in sight again from
the trees the colours of Takapau wer
in front, and he cleared the post[...]

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fence two lengths in front of Recruit, Orange-
man being third, and Me[...]y. Here Chemist baulked, and
took no further part in the race, As they
came down the hill Takapau was a length in
front of Recruit, with Orangeman eight
lengths behind, the same distance separatin;
him in his turn from Messenger. At the so
wall Recruit drew out two lengths in front of
Takapau, Orangeman being still third, and
thus early in the struggle #bparently show-
ing signs of distress, while Messenger, al-
though a long way in the rear, was going
kind ndwell. There wasnoalter[...]water jump
and stone wall, and when they ‘came
in sight again from behind the trees
situate at the[...]of Orangeman when the
reached, and the double
sed in the same order, As they
raced to the stone wall, Messenger ran into
third place, and making up his ground in
splendid style was on terms with Orangeman
when t[...]e top of the hill, where Recruit, was ten
lengths in front of Messenger, and coming
down the hill, his[...]tion, and sitting down on Recruit he
egan to ride in real earnest. At the last
hurdle scarcely a lengt[...]at first to the repeated calls of Col ins, but 3
in the last few strides he ran a bit unkindly,
§nd[...]i
Tupaki led into the
Patchwork and_ Tek:
whipped in the fiel
ins ty the field

Serine Hanpreap o
to be sold immedi:
Seven furlongs. t

In. Out.

81—101 Mr, J.

Dan[...]

TTT mae HTN

INTER[...]ees to square-leg for 3. 8
son bowled two maidens in succession.
gave McClinchy a full-pitcher, which[...]bya fluky hit to leg, and foll
up by driving Rees in the next over
Neill relieved Stemson, and Youill[...]lonial match between | teams from
‘Auckland and New South Wales. The
weather in the early part of the morning was
dull and gave p[...]f those who
have looked forward with considerable in-
terest to the meeting of these teams the
threate[...]rs
ofthe visiting team had no cause for complaint
in this respect, but it did not wear so well as
anti[...]many bumpy ones. The greatest
interest was taken in the proceedings b
those present, and every bit of skilful wor’
with the bat or in the fielding, received good
recognition. Very attractive batting form
was shown by most of the New South Wales
eleven, the hitting of Youill, Cottam[...]al of trouble, Although
a few chances were missed in the field,
the efforts of a majority of the Auck-[...]ng very expert and effective, and
as good as seen in any match throughout Au-
stralasia, Hawkins was t[...], umpires. Robinson and Youill
appeared first for New South Wales. Between

‘two and three hun[...]

applauded as he arnesred at the wicket. 2 New South

OL elly’s first ball’ of the next ove[...]i

Brewer -
lar number, Rees bowled three maidens in rmafdete we ae the

ion, and Kelly sent down his[...]ell. Te
ame bowler by an ondave: Davis = appeared in place o
d Rees to leg for 2. Lusk relieved first[...]ball to leg for three, broke the i

bringing 131 in sight. A neat back eut by Newell. n
Cowper gained[...]ut none o: tae fieldsmen Wet nae of the over | re
in the proper position, and runs were score . again became con oo
140 having tg ete put up, and Hawkins re- = in the slips off Calla
lieved Lusk, Davis hitting th[...]ins to square-leg where = mulling hadly two r
vas in waiting, and the genial skipper’ = drove Callaway in
tire for a well carned 32, 149-6— = Telegraph:[...]nissed him before he could score, and the first = In Callaway's next over:
duck’s egg of the team ha[...]r got 1 by a nice drive off Rees, Lynch = safety, In New
elding well, and Callaway drove the left-[...]

SOWWWw ITT[...]

LT TMMANNNONNNANENHK LATTER CERAM RON

d in towards the hulk Clara Hargreaves,
ae it wae then[...]argreaves, the Spray was ahead |

passed in the following order: H. M. 8. of the Matangi by about seven seconds, §]
Si 3B 43 45 next in order, some ‘ance away, being fl

ae i a 3 46 5[...]followed the Christina, Maritana,
Mav, ae Henry, in the order in which
they are mentioned. There was not much
alteration in the piece of the leading eee
ey re te narh pace,[...]own, however, the Matangi, under full 7 rea ; : a in scratch
sail, rapidly overhauled her opponent, an[...]he Ma- Malu 7:12 14
tangi was kept round the buoy in the Rangi- Sybil ... 79) 32
toto Channel,[...]

particularly being vociferous in their expres-
siens of approval.

The whakatiwai[...]ther of
Rangiriri men. The course was the same as
in the previous race, and an exciting con.
test ensu[...]e former,
whose men paddled with great vigour and in
splendid time, distanced their opponents, and
won[...]at the start, and disported himself
for some time in the water, the other three
made a creditable race[...]t be carried out owing to the spectators
crowding in on the natives, was given to-
‘ay at what are k[...]en, nearly all nb
vibe, ie women a

rm
Saat es

3 in me
or ae
onl
loins, the reat of the bod

e Te Raw[...]y - 1 ipson (A
tenant Fit: ld,
and Major
Motutapu in the :
nine a.m. c
Rangitoto Island.
the anchor was di
a-half was spent in
cellent sport, for
the whole time he
schna[...]

The main feature[...]or, had a
pp arcent display of flowering begonias in
full foliage and flowers, many of which were of
h[...]W. 8. Wilson ex-
hibited four fine fuchsia trees in pots. They
were healthy, vigorous shrubs, in full flower
and were worthy to represent the clim[...]ame
to transpire sent a fine collection of forty

New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.

mmm cn[...]trip, the fine scenery, and
good sport they had,
In the evening His Excellency was prese:
at the perf[...]ch variety, and th
were distributed so as to fill in the vacan
between the various stands and groups,[...]ant and well grouper
bouquets made up by children in the
being very attractive indeed. Mr. E:
display[...]as also a fine feature,
the manufacture was equal in finish to
imported to New Zealand, They
finished in Rockingham and yellow
and took the form of, baskets, rustics,
flower pots, etc., and in the large vases
some fine pot plants which showed[...]exhibit of pottery. Fruit
splendidly represented in apples,
oranges, lemons, peaches, grapes, ete,
Cr[...]eally grand dis}
of apples, Beare, ia and peaches in
ties, and Mr. E. B. Houlton, among
other exhibits[...]the East ‘Tamaki Seh
whom a space was allotted in the north W
Tt consisted of fruit, vegetab[...]

W0UHUIHjHZI UVTI[...]egion uit; Hacer andl Son Ayonih
Collection grown in open # ottery, pottery worl peight, ine
Bat prise[...]Mrs. Malcolm, Helensville, han,
Collection grown in open air, six distinct varie- 2 Iaskets, epergnes[...]oal; Mr,

Wildman, stationer, Victoria Arcade, New
hank, 2nd; = jllustrated by Mr. Edward Wakefield.[...]= magnificent display of Indian weaving wi
or ade in New Zealand. © First prize, £15 Second, — exhibit[...]There was another very not
at the bouquet mere wD in Seen yoom able feature in the way of native —
under supervision, Kirst prize, 10s; second, 7s 6d ; is We ibit, in tl
third, 63: Mi-s Kate Sp-ight, 1st prize; Mise[...]} tition, but added largely to the success of the inin the afternoon was go
i; f et, 'O ales ; Ed. Nea i[...]Burke, Mount Eden’ — for the rush of visitors in the evening. Ff
) six carrots, six parsnips, 12 potatoes; W. Me¥et- = true that everything was in shipshape
| ee aes, eel Kast Tamaki = exhibition[...]p, Waikomiti, 2) varieties apples, eieht — @'@w in the shape of a tableau and e

varieties Russian apples; four plates ornaiuenta The tableau was thoroughly in_keep
cere, one plate plums; E. B. euibon. m, ise[...]Hines oe D3 Green, Symonds-strect, = British flag in New Zealand. Admi
ih. nell, seedlin; euber ee[...]

for their scores. In the New Sout off Callaway. Fi
Wales second innings Robins[...]ters should profit by t mn 1
it. J, Cottam batted in taking style, while man hit Newell to lon
McClinc[...]tain double figures, per relieved Cal

§ nicely. In bowling Cowper and 2 sonscored2by a leg h
the mos[...]or 116, and then Davi
declared the innings closed in hope of putting
the local men out in the second innings for a
small total, arid thereby winning the match,
however, in this he was unsuccessful, and at
the call of time[...]en
very exciting,

THE PLAY.

As New South Wales’ eleven took the field
they[...]

HT

for 4, but in attempting the fifth Kelly was
run out, through s[...]drove the third ball nicely for 3. Callaw
batted in the Auckland second innings. was too late for one[...]got 1 by a = Telegraph: 109—7—2. Newell went in, buth
oretty hit to leg, and then Cottam drove scored nothing, when at 116 the New So
ees along the carpet for 5. The Sydney Wales s[...]on for 2, the ball being
well returned by Mills. In the next o
from Neill the skipper scored 3 to I[...]player drove Lusk out of bounds for Auckland went in for their second in

and then MeClinchy jumped out at the At half-past four the New South Wales tean
same bowler, but, getting under[...]cama Bowie
got 1 for a pretty drive off Rees, and in and 10 appeared ‘on the board. MeCI
usk’s nex[...]ball gaveWalker and 20 appeared on the board. Yat
in the long field a hard chance, the result being sc[...]down the — Gardiner lifted Newell to ‘Youill in

New Sourw Waues.—Second Innings.
W. A. McCli[...]

New Zealand's Jubilee, 1840-1890.

wun He A

ever, Te[...]racing ground
marked off with a post and wire fe;
in order to prevent nr
the public, and = all
started[...]excellent, and
J. BE, time-keeper,
indefatigable in the duties of his o
T mmittee, in conducting the sports
hh the men of the sq[...]

QvuaRTER-MILE Hanpicapr.—In this event
the starters we ‘urdy, scratc[...]

g2

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latter hel[...]over
the succeeding impediments, and won wit
bit in hand. The result w: rte a
1; Armstrong (Opal), 2;[...]s, vaused great laughter.
The competitors, eleven in number, were
blindfolded, and each drove a wheelbarrow
in which was seated another sailor who
guided his ma[...]pe upset was equally
amusing. he winner turned up in Loc!
and Torr, who managed to keep a fairly
strai[...]he most We
the programme. All the party filed out in
neat black and white costumes, and taking
up their mpaiiagas in squad opposite the

3)[...]5 well-built, wiry-look
; Js filing on the ground in orthod
athletic costume was one that has per!
never before been witnessed in any ath
meeting in Australasia, All started
I and the field began to[...]he first round
Chung had a good lead, and running in goo
style, won about 20 yards, ‘The re
Ling Chu[...]a variety of graceful movements were
gone spepugh in splendid style and with great
precision, the whol[...]to = amidst great cheering. “The effeaviel
show in front, but at the back of the e great exertions w[...]ame on ‘The y were heartily ‘Appt
the outside in grand style he could not get on tors, i 7 Pe
—T[...]ards, 3, ‘Time, 54s, n started, but Ashton fell in the
be 2 n Selby led for the first half-mile, but[...]fter running second time, disph
jackets contested in this event, and though — Taylor drew up, while[...]'a merry pace, and Bue
ei7¢ q 0), 3. with Howard in close attendance, 8[...]

No. I.
ve not there are signs in the heavens?
Ana lenow yo not there are thoughts in the heart ?
‘Hew them in pieces ! hew them in pieces !
Pounce, pounce upon them,
Pounce upon th[...]o, TIL

Son of the potent? Son of the brav
Mighty in battle on land and the wave.
Great is the soul where true valoui rei;
Noble the blood that swells in your veins ;

strength,

REGATTA[...]Ju-
bilee Regatta which had to be contested
again in consequence of the numerous pro-
tests that had b[...]ere was a light breeze for the sailing races,
and in the majority of cases nearly all the
competitors who had taken part in the races
on Ry cneaaday ugain faced the starter. In
consequence of the alteration in the course,
however, the exact amount of the time[...]finished, but probably
several of those who came in first will not be
the ultimate winners of the pri[...]Only three
vessels started, the Mapu, which came in
first on Regatta Day, had carried away her
gaff t[...]t
Was eyentually passed by the Tawera, which
came in an easy winner, the positions at the
finish being[...]was afterwards

New Zealana’s Jubilee, 1840-1890.[...]hem,
your incantations,
so ye may be strengthened in the strife ;
Oh, let your plots
Ripen into action[...]e 29th, but the other craft made repeated
changes in their positions, the yachts which
had any chance[...]a being the
Matea and Tangaroa. The Isca was late in
starting, and considerably handicapped
The result[...]ina and the et ot
¥ ighe

The Foam gave up early in the race
distanced. The order in which the
h. 54m., 1;

2h. 59m. 30s.,[...]ir race ensued. Owing to an alteration
being made in the time of starting, the May
Queen was about six minutes late in starting,
and at the finish well up with t[...]

shifted more than twice over.

rsons inNew Zealand. Greetings to you,—We, the chiefs of

temata, in the year 1840 until now this

t of the Jubilee, N[...]ee us here on this day. Wel
welcome to Waitemata, in the love and affection
the Maori chiefs, of the G[...]ony by this Jubilee, Let
us, therefore, pronounce in your presence our ip
preciation to the chiefs and[...]ns and their forms of Go-
verament to be the best in the world; ab
any rate, it has enabled them, wher[...]istianity
and civilisation to countless native oe
In bidding you share with us on equi
terms in these forms of government, by
opening to y[...]

‘After His Excellency’s reply, T[...]ss
Thurston, and the rest of the party em-
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settlement at O[...]ati party returned to the city shortly after
wai, in which the Hon. Mr. Mitchelson was twelve o'clock.[...]this head, but I forbear. i
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