Full Text Search Details
... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...r that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patteson... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the afternoon. Coley was far more affected than he then had 20 ... ... things than the Vicarage of Feniton. Indeed, the subject was not entirely new to him, for Edward Coleridge was always deeply interested in mis- sions... ...ters from Australia, Newfoundland, &c. 21 Yo n g e When the Bishop of New Zealand came to take leave, he said, half in earnest, half in playfulness, ... ...a thoroughly good and complete place of education; the hall all lined with kauri pine wood, a large handsome room, collegiate, capable of holding two ... ...anesian isles—farm buildings, barns, &c. Last of all, the little chapel of kauri wood, stained desk, like the inside of a really good ecclesiastical b... ...t eleven high, all wood, not papered or painted, which I like much, as the kauri is a darkish grained wood; no carpet of course, but I am writing now ...

Full Text Search Details
...back of a building, in which there sat at a desk a greasy gentleman with a new hat on one side of his head, who might perhaps be about forty years old... ... WHARTON ON THAT SAME DAY Lopez dined with his friend Everett Wharton at a new club, called the Progress, of which they were both members. The Progres... ...he Progress, of which they were both members. The Progress was certainly a new club, having as yet been open hardly more than three years; but still i... ...one lover to another, by change of scene. Taking her to Dresden,—or to New Zealand, would only confirm in her passion such a girl as Emily Wharton. No... ...t, Arthur Warburton Ferdinand Lopez, Esq. 363 Anthony Trollope CHAPTER 43 KAURI GUM THE READER WILL no doubt think that Ferdinand Lopez must have bee... ...- ner had been pressing upon him for the last week. They bought a cargo of Kauri gum, coming from New Zealand. Lopez had reasons for thinking that Kau... ...n him for the last week. They bought a cargo of Kauri gum, coming from New Zealand. Lopez had reasons for thinking that Kauri gum must have a great ri... ...uri gum must have a great rise. There was an immense demand for amber, and Kauri gum might be used as a substitute, and in six months’ 370 The Prime ...

Full Text Search Details
...s mind to bear upon it during his walk, and he had come back to apply some new combination. He sat in his armchair, and pen in hand he began what look... ...nished my sentence when the Professor broke out into a cry, nay, a roar. A new revelation burst in upon him. He was transformed! “Aha, clever Saknusse... ...h part of its radius is known; science is eminently perfectible; and every new theory is soon routed by a newer. Was it not always believed until Four... ...even in the morning we landed at Korsor, a small town on the west coast of Zealand. There we were transferred from the boat to another line of railway... ...e Norwegian pine, the birch-tree of the north mingled its foliage with New Zealand kauris. It was enough to distract the most ingenious classifier of ... ...ian pine, the birch-tree of the north mingled its foliage with New Zealand kauris. It was enough to distract the most ingenious classifier of terrestr... ...a distance of a quarter of a mile, leaning against the trunk of a gigantic kauri, stood a human being, the Pro- teus of those subterranean regions, a ...

Full Text Search Details
... both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species, this relation is often broken: as one instance of this I may m... ...lt-lakes are inhabited by small crustaceous animals; and flamingoes (Edin. New Philos. Jour., Jan 1830) likewise frequent them. As these circum- stanc... ...ted in the museum of the Zoological Society. Mr. Gould, in describing this new species, has done me the honour of calling it after my name. Among the ... ... the steamer as paddles, and the os- trich as sails: and th Apteryz of New Zealand, as well as its gigantic extinct prototype the Deinornis, pos- sess... ...termined to take him back to the Beagle; and ultimately he was left at New Zealand, where his brother was a missionary. From the time of our leaving, ... ...ived at a far higher grade than another branch of the same people, the New Zealanders, — who, al- though benefited by being compelled to turn their at... ...ing in the bar- est spots, lumps of the kind of resin which flows from the kauri pine are frequently found. The natives had an evident motive in clear... ...s walked with me to a part of a neighbouring forest, to show me the famous kauri pine. I measured one of the noble trees, and found it thirty-one feet... ...all compared with the branches. The forest was here almost composed of the kauri; and the larg- est trees, from the parallelism of their sides, stood ...