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• Haast River in southern invasion, 110.
• Mysterious wreck, 171.
• Habitable island of Snares group, 153.
• Haki-te-Kura, the Taieri River inamorata, 109.
• Harriett, in the capture of brig Wellington, 69.
• Her crew captured by natives, 160.
• Harris, invention re flax, 75.
• Hart, W., land claim, 93.
• Hasselburg, Captain, discovery of Camp-bell Islands—His death by drowning, 153.
• Hawea (Lake), southern invasion, 110.
• Heads, Traffic in dried, 50.
• Helen, Piratical seizure of, 101.
• Henrietta Bay traditions, 108.
• Hermoni, Rakitapu, last survivor of Tuturau, pa, 112.
• Hibernian Governor's device, 98.
• Hinchliff, W., land claim, 96.
• Hind's, Rev. Saml., evidence re colonisation, 34.
• Hirst, W., land claim, 96.
• Hobart Town— Trade with, 74.
• Flax plant in. Hobart, 78.
• Projects re New Zealand Whaling Company, 127.
• Hobblewith & Vickery, land claim, 94.
• Hobson, Captain R. N.—
  • Consular appointment—Land jobbing— North and south—Instructions to plaint English flag in latter—Proceedings taken therein, 36.
  • Land speculations prohibited—Treasury minute—Foundation of New Zealand national debt, 37.
  • Lieutenant-governor—His powers and instructions, 45.
  • Discretionary powers—Disposal of land— Restricted powers of administration, etc., 116.
• Hogs plentiful', 73.
• Also cheap, 84.
• Hongi Heke—His death—Sanguinary schemes curbed—Human sacrifices dispensed with, 143.
• Horse first Ianded in Port Nicholson, 32.
• Hostilities between English and French, 41.
• Between traders and missionaries, 135.
• Expedition against New Zealand, 162.
• House first erected in Port Nicholson, 31.
• Howell, Captain John, 68.
• Humane conduct of natives—Wreck of Cossack—Kind beyond expectation—Gave best they had, 68.
• Hurricane and Disaster—
• Fearful hurricane—Dismantling forests— Dangerous floods—Wolsely (Waiau) River, 101.
• Storm at South Cape—Seal gang imprisoned by land slip—Providential stream of water—Out, in time reckoning's, 102.
• Hutt, chairman of New Zealand Settlement Company, 35.
• Hyena species of animal on Campbell Islands, 155.