DEATH OF THE DAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN COOK.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1653, 7 June 1879, Page 3

DEATH OF THE DAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN COOK.

The 'Daily Telegraph* of the 26th September, 1867, thus alludes to this occurrence: —Fifty thousand gold diggers are working to-day in the New Zealand gullies. Sydney is a splendid capital, with palaces and railways. Victoria and Queensland have so many she/p that they boil whole flocks down for tallow. At the Society Islands the newsSapors are anxious about the health of His [ajesty the King—an ally of ours, and an highly eclightenod person. Somebody died last week who coull recollect when New Zeaand, Australasia, and OLaheite had no more existence for the world than " the undiscovered islands." A little old woman, Mistrejs Ann Rumsey, of Colchester, was a few says baok positively older than the very earl'oßt records of civilisation in any one of these rich young states. When she quavered out the words 'in the days when I was a girl,' he who was her father wrote tho names of them all for the first time on the map. Mistress Ann Rumsey was the daughter of Captain Cook, and she died lately at the age of 104. Absent colonies will please take notice There are about ten millions of Anglo-Saxons and others, besides the thirty millions at home, who owe the flower of a reverent thought to this good old lady's resting-place.