DEATH OF THE DAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN COOK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 149, 2 May 1879, Page 2

DEATH OF THE DAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN COOK.

o The Daily Telegraph of the 26th Sept., 18G7, thus alludes to this occurrence Fifty thousands 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 sheep that they boil whole flocks down for tallow. At the Society Islands the newspapers are anxious about the health of- his Majesty the King—an ally of ours, and'an highly enlightened person, Somebody died last week who could recollect when New Zealand, Australasia, andOtaheite had no more existence for the world than "the undiscovered islands," A little old woman, Mistress Ann Rumsoy, of Colchester, was a few days back positively older than the very earliost records of civilisation in any one of these rich young states. When she quavered out tho words "in the days when I was a girl," shs spoke tho first sentenco in the history of all these robust new thrones and nations; for "in the days when she was a girl," ho who was her father wrote the names of them all for the first time on the map, Mistress Ann Rumsey was tho daughter of Captain Cook, and slio died last week 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 Homo, who owe the flower of a reverent thought to this good old lady's resting-place,