The Story of New Zealand: A History of New Zealand from the Earliest Times to the Present, with Special Reference to the Political, Industrial and Social Development of the Island Common-wealth; Including the Industrial Evolution Dating from 1870, the Political Revolution of 1890, the Causes and Consequences, and the General Movement of Events Throughout the Four Periods of New Zealand History |
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Page 234 - mong the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck at last must mark the end of each and all. And every life, no matter if its every hour is rich with love and every moment jeweled with a joy, will, at its close, become a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death. This brave and tender man in every storm of life was oak and rock ; but in the sunshine he was vine and flower.
Page 20 - ... and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates, Forests, Fisheries and other properties -which they may collectively or individually possess, so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession: but the Chiefs of the United Tribes and the Individual Chiefs yield to Her Majesty the exclusive right of Pre-emption over such Lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to alienate, at such prices as may be agreed upon between the respective proprietors and persons...
Page 319 - President shall be liable to be challenged, appealed against, reviewed, quashed, or called in question by any court of judicature on any account whatever.
Page 417 - It is equitable that deserving persons who during the prime of life have helped to bear the public burdens of the Colony by the payment of taxes, and by opening up its resources by their labour and skill, should receive from the Colony pensions in their old age.
Page 500 - Milford Sound : — Vertical cliffs rose for thousands of feet on either hand, and we drove in before a blast so strong as almost to make steaming unnecessary. The surface of the sea would now and then be torn off in sheets, driven along in spindrift, and again all would be calm as glass. Waterfalls, resembling the Staubach, came down the cliffs from far above the clouds, and were blown away into spray while in mid-air by the fury of the storm. Wherever vegetation could get a footing on these immense...
Page 234 - This brave and tender man in every storm of life was oak and rock; but in the sunshine he was vine and flower. He was the friend of all heroic souls.
Page 308 - The hours of labor are shortened to 8 per day, and to the constant worker is given a half holiday in every week, besides at least six full holidays in the year, under full pay ; thus affording him more time for rest, recreation, and intellectual development than is enjoyed by his fellow-workers in any other part of the world. There is a general diffusion of wealth, no great poverty, and not a single millionaire as far as I know. . . The men who have inaugurated these honest Christian reforms are...
Page 501 - ... with a roar like thunder, drowning our voices and sending great gushes of spray over the steamer's deck. The face of another great cliff was so draped with numberless small falls that it seemed to be covered with a veil of silver gauze about 300 yards in width. While passing along here we fired a gun. Echo after echo resounded from cliff to cliff, and from invisible crags high over our heads the echo again returned as a voice from the clouds.
Page 339 - ... a time at least, to know with certainty the conditions of production, and therefore to make contracts with the knowledge that they would be able to fulfil them; and indirectly it has tended to a more harmonious feeling among the people generally which must have worked for the weal of the Colony. A very large majority of the employers of labor whom I interviewed are in favor of the principle of the act. One only did I meet who said out and...
Page 500 - Wherever vegetation could get a footing on these immense precipices, lovely tree-ferns and darker shrubs grew in profusion, all dripping with moisture, and running up the cliffs in long strips of verdure till lost to our view aloft in the torn white mists. The vivid green of the foliage was the feature of all this wondrous scene which struck me most. Two or three miles up the Sound we steamed close to an immense waterfall, which, in one plunge of 300 feet, leaped into the Sound with a roar like thunder,...