DEATH OF THE DAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN COOK.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 103, 1 May 1879, Page 4

DEATH OF THE DAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN COOK.

The Daily Telegraph of the 2G'.h September, 1867. thua alludes to this occurrence : — Fifty thousand polddiggers are working to-day in the New Zealand gullies. Sydney is a splendid capital, with palaces and railways. Victoria and Queensland have so many aheep that they boil whole flacks for tallow. At the Society Islands the newspapers are anxious about the health of his Majesty the King — an ally of ours, and a highly enlightened person. Somebody died last week who could recollect when New Zealand, Australasia, aud Otaheite had no more existence for the worl J than " the undiscovered island." A little old woman, Mistrest Ann Ruraßey, of Colchester, who was a few days back older than the very earliest records of civilisation in any one of these rich young states. Wheo she quavered out the words "in the days when I was a girl," she spoke the first sentence in the history of all these robust new thrones and nations ; (or "in the days when she was a girl," he who was her father wrote the names of them all for the first, time on the map. Mistress Ann Rumeey wea the daughter of Captain Cook, and she died last week at the age of 104. Absent colonies will please take notioe ; there are about (en millions of Anglo-Saxons and others, besides the thirty millions at Home, who owe the flower of a reverent thought to this good lady's restingplace.