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• Abandonment of mission enterprise, 148.
• Absconders in Dusky, 172.
• Absconding seal gangs, 107—Ships crews, 128.
• Acquisition of land, 41.
• Acreage of colony, 97.
• Agony and death, 167
• Akaroa, land speculations, 97—Settlements, 54.
• Alarm, false, 51.
• Alligator (ship), capture, 103.
• American and French war ships, 49—Shipping preponderance, 64—Whale fisheries, 120.
• Analytical mineral teste, 178.
• Ancient Maori customs, 111.
• Anglo-Zealand Lottery— Investing in N.Z. lands—First township, 30—Native rights conserved—The tenths, 31.
• Annexation of Bounty Islands, 163.
• Aparima: Tuhawaiki's boat purchase trans action, 114.
• Apathy of Britain, 121.
• Asserting British rights, 51.
• Auckland Island trade, 79—Discovery—Exclusive possession—Southern whale station project, 155.
• Free ports—Facilities for settlement— Financial prospects of settlement, 156.
• Endorby, chief commissioner—Progress report — H.M.S. Phantom — Disbandment, 157.
• Investiture—Geo. V. Printz—Maoris from Chatham Islands, 158.
• Rookery catastrophe—Crew lost—Characteristic adventure, 159.
• The Harriett—Mark Shaw—Rich rookery
• —Left destitute, 160.
• French whalers rendezvous—Jean Bart— Ship's mishap—Wreck disaster, 162.
• Auction sale, N.Z. lands, 37.
• Austrilia del espiritu Santo, 8.
• Awarua whale station, 133.