Word: zealand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...testimony of the century has been in favor of municipal suffrage for women.- (a) In many foreign countries she already possesses the power.- (1) England, Scotland, Wales.- (2) Australia and New Zealand.- (b) She possesses municipal suffrage in many States of the Union.- (c) Its extension has been favored, notably in Massachusetts, by many of the most eminent statesmen: W. S. Leaflet, Vol. I, No. 3 (Sept. 1888).- (d) It received 107,000 votes at the late referendum in this state...
...Owen Hall's first novel, "The Track of a Storm," has developed the fact that this gifted magazinist has been masquing under a nom de plume. He is an Englishman who has been for many years a traveller in the far east, has been a member of the New Zealand Parliament and a student of the British dominions in the Pacific. Hence the knowledge of these regions shown in his story, which shifts from the England of a generation ago to the penal settlements of the Orient...
...University has lately received a very generous gift from Professor Thomas Kirk, of Wellington, New Zealand. Two immense logs of the famous rata or so called sycomore, of New Zealand, have just been safely brought to the University Museum. The seeds of the rata germinate in the forks of lofty trees, sending down aerial roots which reach the earth and draw therefrom an increased supply of mineral matter, while the young plant above sends out branches with foliage to appropriate from the air the other requisite materials for food. The root increases in thickness, the branches contunue their growth until...
...Nash Lecture Room last evening, Professor Goodale addressed the Botanical Club on the subject of Desert Vegetation. The numerous adaptations of plants to extremes of dryness were illustrated by stereopticon views of our South-western plains, the dry lands of Mexico, Egypt, North New Zealand, and central Australia...
Prof. Goodale gave the last of his course of twelve lectures on Australia and New Zealand at the Lowell Institute last night...