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  2. THE MAORI KING.

    IN noticing the recently published volume, bearing the title of "The Maori King, or the Story of our quarrel with the Natives of New Zealand, by J. E. Gorst, M.A., recently Commissioner of the Waikato ...

    Article : 1,085 words
  3. THE SUTTEE.

    THE following account of a Suttee is extracted from Mr. Seton Karr's "Selections from the Calcutta Gazette." The rite took place eighty years ago, a few, miles from Calcutta, and the perusal of the ...

    Article : 907 words
  4. CENTRAL INDIA.

    ABOUT six o'clock on Tuesday evening, a tremendous explosion shook the Secretariat Building to its foundations, causing the whole pile to quiver as if from the effect of the shock of an earthquake. On ...

    Article : 448 words
  5. OPTICAL PHENOMENA OF THE ATMOSPHERE.

    ALTHOUGH the optical phenomena of meteorology are liable to be regarded as matters of secondary consideration, in a practical point of view, it is very desirable that the agricultural student of meteorology ...

    Article : 2,250 words
  6. EGYPT.

    THE Commission sent from England to make enquiries concerning the alleged purchase by the Egyptian Government of the Mersey steam-rams, has terminated its labours; and has returned. The ...

    Article : 1,064 words
  7. PROBLEMATICAL REVOLUTION IN STEAMING.

    WHILE engineers and shipwrights are pushing forward their rival systems, while wood is balanced against iron, and the battle between guns and plates rages without intermission, a new invention is ...

    Article : 1,245 words
  8. THE P. AND CO.'S STEAMER CANDIA IN A HURRICANE.

    THE following graphic description of the gale is contained in a letter from a Punjabee, who was a passenger on board, addressed to a relative in Lahore, who has kindly placed it at our disposal:— ...

    Article : 2,476 words
  9. NEW CALEDONIA.

    WE are in receipt of papers from New Caledonia up to the 26th ultimo. The news is unimportant. Towards the end of April, the people of the Chief Pounerihouen attacked the tribe of Baye. As soon as ...

    Article : 132 words
  10. JAVA.

    WE take the following items of news in the Java Times of 31st May:- BORNEO.—Piracies had again been tried on the river Barito, near the village of Bambangan, in the ...

    Article : 297 words
  11. PINANG.

    WE take the following items from the Pinang Argus of 26th May:- One of the European planters in Province Wellesley had a desperate struggle with a wild boar last ...

    Article : 266 words
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