Ultima Thule - CHAPTER I. A NEW NATION.
ULTIMA THULE. CHAPTER I.
Evil is to be conquered by absorption, not by rejection. I passed my life in one horizon, locked in the sky's blue prison. That blue bubb...
( By A. J. G. Schmitt .) The names used in this story are entirely fictitious. The incident described, however, and the method used for s...
A mobile surgical unit, based on the head and chest units organised in England at the beginning of the war by Professor H. Cairns and Mr ...
At Alexandria, the New Zealand veterinary officers had to make the best shift that they could. Lieut.-Col. Young and his staff managed to...
The New Zealandia At Port Chalmers. On September 28, in latitude 45.2 S., longitude 120.1 E., the barometer began to fall very rapidly, a...
By R. S. Kent (Apprentice Instructor, Addington Railway Workshops) In the field of industry to-day the problem of personnel is becoming o...
Orakau is a pastoral district on the Puniu river, about three miles from Kihikihi. The land is good, to judge by the numerous herds of ca...
Ka tu ka mea:—Kua whakaaetia nga Mema mo te Kotahitanga i korerotia ra inanahi, nga Mema ote takiwa o Turanga. Hoani Ruru, HeMi Waaka. Ko...
(By Hori Makaire .) The day was hot and I had dozed, leaving my fishing line conveniently tied to a row-lock as the boat rose and fell to...
The scuttle covering the entrance to the small cabin was pushed forward, and Dog's-ear and Scotty, standing up in the said small cabin, l...
The area in which the artillery waggon lines were situated afforded a striking and pleasant contrast to the quarters in which the battery...
AVOIDING relations of little importance I shall begin by stating, that on the 18th of Sept. 1805, we made the North Cape of New Zealand, ...
THE bay of islands, so called, in all probability, from a number of small rocky islets situated about its entrance, lies in 35 deg. 6 min...
THE capital of this part of the country, which is situated partly on the main land,and partly on a small island, is called Tippoonah, and...
AS this country is divided into small principalities, whose chieftains are almost constantly at war with each other, the wandering of the...
I believe the form of government of this part of New Zealand, and perhaps of the whole island, to be aristocratical, and hereditary. On t...
AN New Zealand, as in all uncivilized countries, the passions are the principal guide to the actions of its inhabitants: but in this isla...
POLYGAMY is permitted among these people, and a man does not appear to be satisfied in all cases with one female of a family, but in some...
THE inhabitants of this part of the world are by no means unskilled in arts and manufactures: among the former is their cultivation of th...
