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• Sackful of Maori dried heads, 106.
• Sad disaster at Campbell Islands, 153.
• Sale of New Zealand-built vessel, 64.
• Sanguinary conflict— With natives—Brig Trial—Rush on deck— Opportunity for picking them off, 67.
• Maori seaman's treachery—Natives driven overboard—Lasted 26 hours, 68.
• Saving grace and Maori paganism, 165.
• School, First, 141.
• Schooner built in Dusky, 65, 176.
• Scorbutic disease antidote, 175.
• Scottish martyrs in the timber trade, 82.
• Scraped flax as a barter, 85.
• Sealing in the south, 12.
  • Absconding gangs—Their privations, 106.
  • Fur skins and oil—China market—Ships in the trade—market values, 115.
  • Large takes—Sealing disaster—Sealing gangs:—Equipment expenses, 117.
  • Statistics of pursuit—Gratifying intelligence—Seal oil—A neglected product— Cold drawn oil, 118.
  • Seal skins—London prices current—Seal oil ditto, 119.
  • Terrible disaster, 153.
• Second decade whale operations, 126.
• Seizure of brig Cyprus, 171.
• Settlement -(New-Zealand) Company, 62.
• At Auckland Islands, 157.
• Settlements, Foveaux Straits, 107.
• Shareholders, first colonial bank, 86.
• Shebeening in New Zealand, 150.
• Sheldon, H. T.—land claim, 95.
• Shyness of Dusky Sound natives, 177.
• Ships- and shipping—
  • Memoranda: 1821 record—Ships' spars, 62.
  • 1823 record: Increased activity—1826 record: Decided improvements — New trading crafts, 63.
  • 1827 record: Busy year—Piratical seizure —1830 record: Heavy tonnage—1831 record: Ship building—Sydney traders— American ships, 64.
  • Two handsome vessels, 65.
  • Disasters, 66
  • Outrage at Kawhia, 67.
  • Engaged in timber trade, 83.
  • Ship building by-missionaries, 146.
• Shore whaling stations—
  • Their advantages—Equipment and cost— Scale of payments—Non-resident owners, 132.
  • Excess charges for supplies—Rakituma— Awarua — Koreti — Aparima — Toi-Tois —Waikawa — Tautuku — Matu—Taieri, 133.
• Sickening details, 182.
• Simmonds, Isaac, land claim, 95.
• Sinclair, Sir George, re land companies scheme, 35.
• Sizemore, R., land claim, 96.
• Small capitalist preferred for settlement, 44.
• Smart naval Engagement, 70.
• Snares Island.—. Maroons—One death—Their escape, 151.
• Rutherford's nanrtive disproved, 152.
• Terrible seal gang disaster, 153.
• Social habits of southern natives, 107.
• Soil and timber excellent, 177.
• South and South Island—
  • The natives, 12.
  • Exposed to foreign Interference—Not appropriated in right of any particular chief—Population, 50.
  • South Cape—Wreck discovery—Supposed to be La Perouse, 100.
  • Terrible landslip—Gang imprisoned in cave, 102.
  • Distressed seal gang:, 106.
  • Whale fisheries, 120.
  • Enderby's project, 155—Its prospects— Expenses., profits, etc., 156.
  • "Source of wealth" in the oil trade, 128.
• Sovereign and sovereignty— Natives disposed to assumption by English, 28.
• Sovereignty and the missionaries, 138.
• Hecho and Robulloh "sovereigns of N.Z," 147.
• Spars, N.Z., for dockyard purposes, 62.— N.Z. timber most suitable, 82.
• Speculation in whale fisheries, 130.
• Spencer, James, land claim, 95.
• Stalagmitised human skeleton, 168.
• Stewart and Stewart Island—
  • Hobsons doubts re possession of island, 9.
  • H.M.S. Herald takes possession, 36.
  • Native land speculations, 97.
  • Rangi-ura, or Raki-ura—Dugald Stuart, or Stewart—Reproducing Emerald Isle, 98.
  • "Foveaux Straits discovery," 99.
  • Insularity of island in doubt, 104.
  • Stewart's settlement—Only mention of discovery —Stewart in England—An island of enormous wealth.—"The bubble burst" Trafficking in dried Maori heads—The soandal put a stop to, 106.
• Stewart of brig Elizabeth, 179.
• Stirling, William, land claim, 96.
• Strange animals on Campbell Islands, 155.
• Successful season in the oil trade, 126.
• Sunset glows, The land of, 99.
• Suspicious procedure of French vessels, 51.
• Sydney—
  • As a whaling centre, 121.
  • Whale ships, 129.