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Other striking buildings out of Queen Street are Sargood, Ewen and Co.'s fine 

 four-storey warehouse in Victoria Street, the General Post Office and Telegraph Office 

 and Telephone Exchange in Shortland Street, with heads of royal and vice-regal per- 

 sonages and Maori chiefs sculptured out of freestone; and, higher up the same street, 

 the offices of the Auckland Star and the New Zealand /'anna: In Prince's Street, on the 

 top of the ridge just to the eastward of Queen Street, stand the Museum, the Masonic 



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Hall, the Northern Club and the Jewish Synagogue. The Museum is well furnished with 

 natural curiosities, inclusive of a complete skeleton of the gigantic moa and a superb 

 Maori canoe and a carved house, and round the sides on the ground-floor are ranged the 

 various plaster-cast fac-similes of the most celebrated figures and groups of ancient 

 sculpture. The Supreme Court is a capacious building with rather squat towers, and is 

 situated in Waterloo Quadrant, about five minutes' walk farther to the eastward. Within 

 a glass case above the judge's bench are the battle-torn colours of the Fifty-eighth 

 Regiment, the first unfurled in the colony. They were presented by Major Bridge to 

 the city of Auckland. Just across the road stands the substantial Presbyterian Church 



