Cassell's Picturesque Australasia, Volume 4Edward Ellis Morris Cassell & Company, 1890 - Australasia |
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Adelaide arrived Auckland bank beautiful bush bushrangers called Cape Captain centre chief Church coach coast colony copper Creek Diemen's Land distance district English feet fern fire forest gold Government Governor Grey ground gullies gum-trees harbour Hau Haus Heke hills Hinemoa Hobart hundred island journey Kororareka labour Lake Lake Wanaka Launceston lies MAORI WARS Maryborough Maui Maui-potiki Melbourne miles mines Moonta Mount Bischoff Mount Cook mountain natives neighbourhood Norfolk Island north-west party passed Peninsula Perth picturesque plains population Port pretty prisoners Pukaki railway range reached rich rises River road rock runs scenery schools seen settlement settlers shore side South Australia South Wales southern stands station steamers stream Sydney Tasmania Tawhaki town township traveller trees Tutanekai valley Van Diemen's Land Victoria Waikato Waitara Wallaroo Wanaka Wanganui Western Australia winds Wollongong wounded Zealand
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Page 117 - England's dead. The warlike of the isles, The men of field and wave ! Are not the rocks their funeral piles, The seas and shores their grave ? Go, stranger ! track the deep, Free, free the white sail spread ! Wave may not foam, nor wild wind sweep, Where rest not England's dead.
Page 58 - That sly-boots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind: Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote...
Page 211 - ... while the shuddering iris stoops in tremulous stillness over all, fading and flushing alternately through the choking spray and shattered sunshine, hiding itself at last among the thick golden leaves which toss to and fro in sympathy with the wild water; their dripping masses lifted at intervals, like sheaves of loaded corn, by some stronger gush from the cataract, and bowed again upon the mossy rocks as its roar dies away...
Page 112 - Again and again during the last twenty-six years, where there has been danger and difficulty in the administration of colonial affairs, your Excellency's aid has been invoked by the most eminent statesmen of the day. Sacrifices you have disregarded, and trials have served as opportunities of evincing devotion to public duty, and we cannot but regard it as indicative of the indifference, if not positive disfavour, with which the colonies of the empire are regarded when loyalty, zeal, and high intelligence...
Page 211 - ... leaps hissing out of the fall, like a rocket, bursting in the wind and driven away in dust, filling the air with light; and how through the curdling wreaths of the restless crashing abyss below, the blue of the water, paled by the foam in its body, shows purer than the sky through white rain-cloud, while the shuddering iris stoops in tremulous stillness over all, fading and flushing alternately through the choking spray and shattered sunshine...
Page 211 - ... and how all the hollows of that foam burn with green fire like so much shattering chrysoprase; and how, ever and anon, startling you with its white flash, a jet of spray leaps hissing out of the fall like a rocket, bursting in the wind and driven away in dust, filling the air with light ; and how, through the curdling wreaths of the restless...
Page 106 - I at that moment believed was ebbing with my blood away ; the loveliness of nature was around me, the sun rejoicing in his cloudless career, the birds were filling the woods with their songs, and my friends far away and unapprehensive of my condition, — whilst I felt that I was dying there.
Page 106 - The effect was electrical. The tumult of the combat had ceased: not another spear was thrown, not another yell was uttered. Native after native dropped away, and noiselessly disappeared.
Page 119 - The cockswain then fired a second musket over their heads, but of this they took no notice; and one of them lifting up his spear to dart it at the boat, another piece was fired, which shot him dead. When he fell, the other three stood motionless...
Page 235 - Listen, all men ! The house of New Zealand is one. The rafters on one side are the ' pakehas ; ' those on the other are the Maoris ; the ridge-pole on which both rest is God. Let, therefore, the house be one.