Identifier: transactionsofro68roya (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Royal Society of New Zealand
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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ome, or on the Continent. 25. Spirituous liquors should be kept out of all purely Maori districtsand villages. Cook found the Maories happy:—are they happy now 1 Let usendeavour to make them so. Conclusion. &(S. The writer of this Essay has no hesitation in expressing his settledconviction ; that, (apart from any spiiitual Christian benefit,—a subjecthe has generally throughout this Essay carefully avoided,) taking allthings into consideration, and viewing the matter from a philanthropicas well as a New Zealand point of view,—it would have been far betterfor the New Zealanders as a people if they had never seen an European. De duro est ultima ferro.— —Fugere pudor, verumque, fidesque ; In quorum, subiere locum fraudesque dolique, Insidiseque, et vis, et amor sceleratus habendi. Ovid. CO to O JO bs to to tOtOtOtOUJtOt—i— l-JK-^-^_h-^-on *. to to H- O CO 00 ^ Ci Cn ►ji. CO to t-O «0 00 ^ Ci Or rfii. CO to I— H-l »2j H-l HO I—I hJHH l-H I—11—( H HH HH l-H a?
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APPENDIX TO THE TEANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. APPENDIX. I. YIELD OF GOLD THROUGHOUT THE WOELD From the Discovery or America in the year 1492 to the present TIME. Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, July 28, 1868. (See Proceeditif/s.) The following information respecting the yield of gold throughout theworld, from the earliest time of which we have any record, namely, thediscovery of America in 1492, up to the present time, has been collectedfrom various sources, in order to show the relative importance of theCalifornian, Australian, and New Zealand goldfields. Excepting perhaps in very early times, prior to that date, gold seemsto have been obtained principally by trade with the inhabitants of variousdistricts in Europe and Asia, so that the yield though small was uniform. From the time of the discovery of America, however, the amount ofgold obtained annually, has on the average steadily increased. The progress of the gold discoveries since t

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