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Updated: July 25, 2025
Iron Ore is undoubtedly to be found here, particularly about Mercury Bays, where we found great quantities of Iron sand; however, we met with no Ore of any Sort, neither did we ever see any sort of Metal with the Natives. We met with some stones at Admiralty Bay that appear'd to be Mineral in some degree, but Dr. Gold at Otago and Hokatika in the South Island, and at Thames in the North.
In Hokatika the Irish settlers most patriotic of Ireland's exiles organized a highly impressive funeral demonstration. The government seized and prosecuted its leaders, the Rev. Father Larkin, a Catholic clergyman, and Mr. Wm. Manning, editor of the Hokatika Celt. Meanwhile the Irish capital had moved, and was organizing a demonstration destined to surpass all that had yet been witnessed.
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