- A British protectorate has been proclaimed over the islands of the South Pacific, known as Cook’s Islands, or perhaps better as the Hervey Group,. The principal island is Raratonga, which is about eight days’ steaming from Auckland, It is a mass of mountains, about 2000 ft high. It is about 30 miles in circumference. The productions of this group of islands are cotton, coffee, arrowroot, cocoanut oil, copra, oranges, limes, bananas, pine-apples, barley, maize, sponge, shells, beche-de-mer, turtles, and valuable timber. The s.s. Richmond trades regularly between • Auck • land and the Hervey Group. There are ten of the islands inhabited, and now they are under British protection should be of great value to New Zealand.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 866, 5 October 1888, Page 28
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115Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 866, 5 October 1888, Page 28
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