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Page 312 - I thank you for the patience with which you have listened to me.
Page 132 - Umpandi,' and they have kept playing with me all this time treating me like a child? Go back and tell the English that I shall now act on my own account, and if they wish me to agree to their laws I shall leave and become a wanderer ; but before I go it will be seen, as I shall not go without having acted.
Page 132 - I have done anything yet in the way of killing. Why do the white people start at nothing ? I have not yet begun ; I have yet to kill ; it is the custom of our nation, and I shall not depart from it.
Page vi - ... Papers, and Library. All Fellows, whether residing in England or the Colonies, have a report of each Meeting, and the Annual Volume of Proceedings forwarded to them. To be present at the Evening Meetings, and to introduce one visitor. To be present at the Annual Conversazione, and to introduce a lady.
Page vi - The support of all British subjects, whether residing in the United Kingdom or the Colonies — for the Institute is intended for both — is earnestly desired in promoting the great objects of extending knowledge respecting the various portions of the Empire, and in promoting the cause of its permanent unit}'.
Page 378 - SECRETARY read the Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting, which were confirmed. The CHAIRMAN then read the Annual Report, which had previously been circulated among the Fellows.
Page 69 - Sec.) read the Minutes of the last Ordinary General Meeting, which were confirmed. The following new Fellows were announced as having been elected since the last Meeting : — Messrs.
Page 131 - Natal, however, had some assurance for the good behaviour of the native population in their midst from the circumstance of their being refugees, who at least valued the security of life and property they enjoyed, as compared with their countrymen across the frontier in Zululand.
Page 267 - I trust someone more competent may he induced to bring the subject of Jamaica more prominently before your notice. (Applause.) SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. THE Seventh Ordinary General Meeting of the Session was held in the Theatre of the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, on Tuesday evening, May 6th. In the absence of his Grace the Duke of Manchester, KP, Sir CHARLES NICHOLSON, Bart., Member of Council, presided. The HON.
Page 74 - Britain in its present annual export of over eleven millions of dollars worth of malt products. It raises and grazes the finest of cattle, with qualities especially desirable to make good the deterioration of stock in other sections...