The New Zealand Cross

Author : Dr. Brian L Kieran
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504945123
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Zealand Cross written by Dr. Brian L Kieran and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Zealand Cross There has been no comprehensive history of the award published in one place. Dr. Kieran explores the development of the creation and inauguration of the award, a listing of all the recipients and an outline of the New Zealand Wars from 1860 to 1872. The Victoria Cross and other decorations were being awarded to Imperial troops but the settlers in the Volunteers and Militia were not being recognised for carrying out similar acts of bravery. The recognition of acts worthy of the NZC were anticipated to become well known; however, the awards spand a period to 1910 and thus the impact of the bravery leading to an award of the NZC was not achieved. Personalities like King Tawhiao, Sir George Bowen, Sir George Grey, Lt. General Cameron, Te Kooti, Titokowaru, and Major General Whitmore were involved in the conflict. A major issue leading to battles arose due to land confiscation by the settlers. The battles were mainly restricted to the North Island; Taranaki and Wanganui on the West Coast, Waikato in the Central area and on the East Coast at, Gisborne, Napier, Tauranga, and the Urewera.

Author : Maturin Murray Ballou
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465548866
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Southern Cross: Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands written by Maturin Murray Ballou and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1888-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the author resolved upon a journey to the Antipodes he was in London, just returned from Norway, Sweden, and Russia, and contemplated reaching the far-away countries of Australia and New Zealand by going due east through the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and then crossing the Indian Ocean. But this is not the nearest route to Oceania. The English monthly mail for that part of the world is regularly forwarded from Liverpool to Boston or New York, thence across the continent of America, and by steamboat from San Francisco. These mail steamers touch at the Sandwich Islands, after which the course lies southwest into the island-dotted latitudes of the widespread South Pacific. Auckland, in New Zealand, is reached by this route in thirty-seven days from London; and Sydney, in Australia, five days later,—the two great English colonies being separated by over a thousand miles of unbroken ocean. The latter route was adopted by the writer of these pages as being both more comfortable and more expeditious. Having already experienced the sirocco-like heat of the Red Sea throughout its whole length, from Adin to Suez, the prospect of a second journey in that exhausting region was anything but attractive. The Atlantic Ocean was therefore crossed to the westward, and a fair start made from much nearer home; namely, by the American Central Pacific route. The journey by rail across our own continent was easily accomplished in one week of day-and-night travel, covering a distance of thirty-four hundred miles from Boston to San Francisco. Comfortable sleeping-cars obviate the necessity of stopping by the way for bodily rest, provided the traveller be physically strong and in good health. On a portion of the road one not only retires at his usual hour, but he also breakfasts, dines, and enjoys nearly all the domestic conveniences in the train, while it is moving at a rate varying from thirty-five to forty-five miles per hour, in such well-adjusted cars as hardly to realize that he is all the time being rapidly and surely forwarded to his destination. The pleasing variety of scenery presented to the eyes of the watchful traveller from the car windows is extremely interesting and peculiarly American, embracing peaceful, widespread, fertile fields, valleys of exquisite verdure, foaming torrents and mountain gorges, together with Alpine ranges worthy of Switzerland. Now the route skirts the largest lakes on the face of the globe, navigated by mammoth steam ships; now follows the silvery course of some broad river, or crosses a great commercial water-way, hundreds of feet above its surface, by iron bridges skilfully hung in air. For scores of miles the road may run parallel with some busy canal crowded with heavily-laden barges, slowly making their way to market. Besides winding through mountain gorges, plains, parks, and primeval forests, one passes en route through grand and populous cities numbering half a million and more of people each, as well as through pleasant towns, thrifty villages, pioneer hamlets, and Indian reservations, where the plains are as far-reaching as the open sea, the blue of the sky overhead and the yellow buffalo-grass which carpets the earth forming the only blending colors,—until by and by a distant glimpse of the waters of the Pacific signifies that the land-journey draws near its close, and soon after the young but wonderful giant city of the West, San Francisco, is reached.

Author : New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
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Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand written by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
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Download or read book The New Zealand Official Year-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 290 pages
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Download or read book The New Zealand Beekeepers' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Burton Silver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580082433
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book New Zealand Golfcross written by Burton Silver and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the innovative, daredevil country that introduced bungee jumping comes a revolutionary new take on golf: New Zealand Golfcross, a game where you shoot for a goal instead of a hole, with an oval, football-shaped ball. Author Burton Silver chronicles the evolution of this remarkable game, explains the unique flight properties of the oval ball, and offers shot-making tips and strategies to take onto the course.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199832706
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairness and Freedom written by David Hackett Fischer and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores why the political similarities between New Zealand and the United States--including democratic politics, mixed-enterprise economies, a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law and more--have taken on different forms.

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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Official History of New Zealand's Effort in the Great War: Drew, H. T. B. The war effort of New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1330 pages
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Download or read book The London Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New Zealand. Army. Headquarters
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book New Zealand Honours and Awards written by New Zealand. Army. Headquarters and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: