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Page 37 - Waikato to the southward ; 3rd., from the facility and safety of its port, and the proximity of several smaller ports abounding with the most valuable timber ; and finally, by the fertility of the soil, which is stated by persons capable of appreciating it, to be available for every agricultural purpose ; the richest and most valuable land in the northern island being concentrated within a radius of 50...
Page 86 - House rent and servants' wages are at least double what they are in England. But there are no taxes, rates, or dues of any kind. Clothing of all kinds is also of course dearer in New Zealand than in England. But wine, spirits, and groceries are for the most part cheaper. Bread and butcher's meat are about the same. The fish caught near Auckland, although of but moderate quality, is plentiful and cheap. Vegetables are also abundant. To those who live in the bush, or at a distance from the town, and...
Page 94 - a " valuable gold field " in the northern district of New Zealand. Within less than a week, the reward was claimed by Mr. Charles Ring, a New Zealand settler, recently returned from California, who asserted that he had discovered gold in the neighbourhood of Coromandel Harbour. The specimens produced by Mr. Ring were...
Page 96 - ... Superintendent. The Superintendent was chosen by the whole body of electors of the province; each member of the Provincial Council by the electors of a district. The Provincial Governments, afterwards increased to nine, remained as integral parts of the Constitution of the colony until the 1st November, 1876, when they were abolished by an Act of the General Assembly, that body having been vested with the power of altering the Constitution Act. On the same day an Act of the General Assembly which...
Page 37 - Waitemata, where I found the officers of the Government, and the mechanics and labourers under their orders, proceeding with the necessary works for establishing the town which I contemplate being the future seat of Government, and which I purpose distinguishing by the name of 'Auckland.
Page 82 - In so small a community there are, of course, but few amusements. Riding, boating, and fishing are, with gentlemen, the favourite recreations. Once a week during the summer months the regimental band plays for a couple of hours on the well-kept lawn in the Government grounds; and with the lovers of music, and with those who are fond of "seeing and being seen," "the Band
Page 45 - ... names of the localities of the young capital, which was now making quite a grand show with its increasing tents and huts dotted over these four bays. But it was a handful of houses and a handful of people only, all peeping out at each other from amongst the scrub and six-feet-high fern all around. My large establishment, representing not only the firm's business premises but the resident partner's place of abode, consisted, as of old, of the historical tent. It had been pitched where a little...
Page 88 - Zealand is divided ; and without taking into consideration the shipping resorting to the Bay of Islands, Mongonui, Hokianga, and the other harbours of the northern province, upwards of 740 vessels, foreign and coastwise, entered the single port of Auckland in the course of the past year. That of the shipping belonging to the various ports of New Zealand, upwards of 100 vessels are registered as belonging to the port of Auckland alone, besides an equal number of licensed smaller vessels under fifteen...
Page 82 - In so small a community, much amusement cannot of course be expected. Once a week, during the summer, a regimental band plays for a couple of hours on the well-kept lawn in the government grounds ; and with the lovers of music, and those who are fond of " seeing and being seen," " the band
Page 44 - Bay of the capital. The capital! — a few boats and canoes on the beach, a few tents and break-wind huts along the margin of the bay, and then — a sea of fern stretching away as far as the eye could reach.