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sparkling; and the wiue merchants state that any amount 

 could be sold there in the best restaurants, provided it was 

 produced in sufficient quantity. Comte d'Abbans is confident 

 that Hawke's Bay could be made a great wine-producing dis- 

 trict, as the dry climate is especially suitable to the cultiva- 

 tion of the grape. As collaborator to the Comte, Father 

 Yardin, Superior of the Meanee Mission, has been awarded a 

 silver medal." I have quoted from a Paris correspondent to 

 a contemporary, whose name is unknown to me. 



I need not enter into the particulars concerning vine-grow- 

 ing and wine-making : that would go far be3"ond the object I 

 had in view in these simple observations. May it suffice to 

 say that they both require a good practical knowledge, and a 

 deal of careful labour, to secure a good return. With those 

 conditions, an acre of land, planted with vines and in full pro- 

 duce, could bring to its owner a yearly income of two or three 

 hundred pounds. 



I beg to conclude by some remarks on the restrictive, or 

 rather prohibitive, measures against the importation of gra^De- 

 vines from foreign countries. Eestrictions, to prevent the in- 

 troduction of infected vines, were vrise when the vines in the 

 colony were free from any infection ; but, now that the disease 

 exists, what is the good of those prohibitions ? It is absui'd 

 to shut up a sheep-pen when the wolf is already in. Those 

 prohibitive measures are not only useless, but in contradiction 

 of the intentions professed by the Government to favoiir vine- 

 culture, and contrary to the interests of the colony, and, 

 especially of the vine-growers, who could obtain from Europe 

 or elsewhere the best kinds of grape-vines, perfectly sound. 

 Perh'^pc they will do so, in spite of prohibition. 



Akt. LXII. — Curious Polynesian Words. 

 By Edward Tregeae, F.E.G.S., F.E.Hist.Soc. 



[^Rcad before the WcUbujton Pliilosopliical Society, 23rd July, 1800.'] 



Some years ago, when wishing to compare certain Maori words 

 with those of other languages used on the Continents of Asia 

 and Europe, one of the masters of modern philology assured 

 me that the Maori tongue was not in a position for comparison. 

 The Maori speech of New Zealand was but a dialect of the 

 Polynesian language,- the conditions of which did not permit 



* The Polynesians call themselves maori or viaoli, as "natives;" 

 but I shall, in this paper, confine the term iMaori to its vernacular use 

 —i.e., applying it to the New-Zealancler only. 



