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• Pacific Ocean whale fisheries, 120.
• Earthquake belt, 169.
• Palmer (Scottish Martyr) and the timber trade, 82.
• Palmer, Edwin, land claim, 95.
• Palmer, Randolph, a Mexican, 168.
• Parangiaioa pa, 108.
• Parr, Elizabeth, her sad story, 154.
• Payments an land purchases, 97.
• Peacock, J. J., land claim, 96.
• Pearce, John, letter dated Wellington, April 6, 1840, 31.
• Peck, Richard, land claim, 95.
• Pelorus Sound in land transactions, 97.
• Penal settlement, French, 41.
• Penalities for neglecting shore gangs, 125.
• Percenean, wreck at Campbell Island, 155.
• Peter, Lord, and the company land scheme, 35.
• Petition re colonisation from the city of
• London, 39, 40.
• Phantom, H.M.S., dismantlement at Auckland Islands, 157.
• Piratical—
• Seizure of the Helen—Heard of in Dusky— Eventually found in Tucopia, 101.
• Piratical nest, 171.
• Place of excessive drunkenness, 165.
• "Plant in a neighbouring lagoon," 114.
• Plate for first New Zealand bank note, 87.
• Plunder of Morgan's salvage, 113.
• Plunged headlong into abyss, 109.
• Point—Peur boys adventures, 159.
• Polack, J. S., in evidence re New Zealand, 25.
• Times' criticism thereon, 33.
• Polar region discoveries, 165.
• Polynesian company, 74.
• Land Claims, 94.
• Pork trade—
• Voyages in the, 63.
• Dr Bass in the trade—Hogs reported plentiful—Large trade in pigs and potatoes, 84.
• Port levies on whale ships, 28.
• Position of Bounty Islands, 165.
• Possession in name of King of France, 49.
• Potato culture, 13.
• Potatoes and pigs, 84.
• At Snares Islands, 152.
• At New River, 165.
• Paunamu or poenamu country, 111.
• Powers in amity with Britain, privileges in re whale fisheries, 124.
• Precautione against native outrage- to seal gangs, 117.
• Preservation Inlet—
  • Native land claims, 97.
  • In whaling pursuits, 131.
  • Rakituma — Sad accident — Agony and death, 167.
  • Stalagmitised human skeleton—Busy seaport, 168.
• Principal chiefs from the south, 107.
• Printz, Geo. V., Auckland Island record, 158.
• Privateering expedition, 174.
• Privations of seal gangs, 106.
• Produce stores erected in Sydney for New Zealand, 73.
• Profitable trade by missionaries, 147.
• Prohibition (liquor) for New (Zealand, 150.
• Prospecting for minerals (Dusky), 175.
• Protection sought by native chiefs against rumoured French interference, 51.
• Providence loads New Zealand spars, 82.
• Providential stream of water in re a seal gang disaster, 102.