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"Does she see it?" "Yes; but she fancies he bestows his confidence on Dolores Mohun, the girl from New Zealand, and resigns herself to be set aside. It is pretty well time that we went to meet her." For there was to be a dress rehearsal in the pavilion, to which certain spectators were to be admitted, chiefly as critics. "Do you walk up the hill, Clem?" "Yes, as long as I don't go too fast.
Nothing, however, prevented Captain Cook from prosecuting, with his usual sagacity and diligence, his search into every part of Dusky Bay; and, as there are few places in New Zealand where necessary refreshments may be so plentifully obtained, as in this bay, he hath taken care to give such a description of it, and of the adjacent country, as may be of service to succeeding navigators.
Let us consider for a minute what would be the effect on the British people if it suddenly came into possession of such an estate. We are not talking now of distant colonies: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa these may be equal together to more than another United States, and they are working out their own destiny.
This attack and massacre had been so suddenly executed, that assistance would hardly have been possible, even had there been disposition to render it. There was; however, no such disposition. The whole country was already cowering again, except the provinces of Holland and Zealand.
The Ulstermen are content that the country should be governed, as far as religion is concerned, on modern principles that is to say, in much the same way that England, Australia and New Zealand are governed to-day.
I am aware of no reason for doubting that, as regards the grades of terrestrial life contained in them, one of these may have been related to another as New Zealand is to Australia, or as Australia is to India, at the present day.
"Dear," the girl urged, "they are such a delicious mixture of England and New Zealand prettier, sweeter than any mere English child could ever be. They are enchanting." But into the dying woman's eyes leaped an eager flame. "They must all be English, no Maori!" she cried. A violent fit of coughing interrupted her, and when the paroxysm was over she was too exhausted to speak.
It was now difficult to find a Catholic in Holland and Zealand, who was not a government agent. The Prince had been a moderate Catholic, in the opening scenes of the rebellion, while he came forward as the champion of liberty for all forms of Christianity. He had now become a convert to the new religion without receding an inch from his position in favor of universal toleration.
Even irreligious people, who have no principles to send them to sleep, or to cause them to take a weekly walk, or to induce them to write an unnecessary letter to New Zealand why are unnecessary letters to New Zealand invariably written on Sunday afternoons? even irreligious people are generally in an unusual frame of mind on the afternoon of the day of rest. They don't feel week-day.
Hooker in his botanical works on the antarctic regions. These cannot be here discussed. I will only say that as far as regards the occurrence of identical species at points so enormously remote as Kerguelen Land, New Zealand, and Fuegia, I believe that towards the close of the Glacial period, icebergs, as suggested by Lyell, have been largely concerned in their dispersal.
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