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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7220, 8 January 1885, Page 4

mo country subscribers •'A V 'to" , y'T: * "THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD." all subscriptions TOB THE CURRENT QUARTER, i/' PAID BEFORE THE 21 ST INSTANT, ' ■WILL BE CHARGED I : r C 'T EN HILLINGS; * AFTER that date, ~,Slt i) J*, it ■' * . . TWELVE SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE. • a id : ii. — — - u-'ii.-T *[rX ■ i it,.-11, 1 0L D A U C K LAND. THE CITY THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. THE FOUR VIEWS OF OLD AUCKLAND, • With Leitehpress Description', Which appeared in the Herald of December 24, Have been reprinted and may be had at the Herald Office, Queen-street, and of the Booksellers . Price -Tworzscr. WEATHfR ' XCHaNGE.—Wednesday. New Zetland : Fiue weather with iteidr pressure; Highest in North; 'winds moderate and fine, S.W. 1 nil S.W. Australia : Slight depression south cf T»»ma.n ; wind N. E.: southerly wind at Srdney »nd high pres«ur.. Bir"ine en— New Zoalin ! : Kusitl, 30'2 ; "Wellington, 21) 9 ; Bluff, 29 '8. Australia : Ho'oar!, 297 ; Sydney, 30"1. TO CORRESPONDENTS. - W. H. Carter, Flat Bush.— Yonr lsttar is quite unintelligible. If yon want anything published, please write i; so ih it it can b * uncuntoo'l. Ignoramus, Auckland, writes "To decide a bat, would jon iindly state from what cause did the r.rer Amazon derive its name ?"—We believe th* name was derived from a mistake made by rho old geographer;. After the conquest of a portion of South America by the Spaniards, they stated that in a certain district which now forms a portion of the Empire of Peru and Brazil, they found a race of amazDns, or female warriors. This disttict was at one time named " Amaz nil" in the old maps, and as the Amazon River was supposed to have its source in this district, the name mar have been thus derived. Anxiotb Stcde-Vt, Auckland, "writes " Being a* out to commence the study of lAtin and French, 1 beg you to answer in your 'replies to correspondent*,' which of the two subjects' (in an educationally protra sive sense) would be the hetur one,to start with*'' —Latin, as a good knowledge of it will greatly aid the study of the languages derived from the od Romtn tongue. ' "

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