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Wellington Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 2896, 30 September 1869, Page 3

' The Centbnaiiy oj? Captain Cooic'a Landing-. —The" Daily Times" concludes ah article advocating the celebration of the Centenary of the landing of Cajtain Cook in New Zealand, as follows :— From the day when his' bones were committed to the oceat> lie hud traversed with so

much daring, down to the present hour, little or ;nothirig has been done either to honor hie memory or to commemorate his "actions. ,A hundi-ed years have rolled away since he — first of ' UU'whire in en— landed 6H the shoree'of Englishmen. Since that time, new communities have, 'sprung up on these shores, and are rapidly (developing 'the germs of a new empfre: ".' the lust few months, a'statue has been erected to "the memory of Cook at " Botany Bay I .'* We , hope that his services will non bo forgotten in .'this 1 country; and how, on the eve of tk<* .hundredth anniversary of its diacoTPry, wr take r lie .'liberty t6 BQggeat that the' event dfesorves com- "' memoration throughout Now Zealand. / V