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* at Rarotonga since the 1888 establishment of the British protectorate over the Cook Islands ; the third and last incumbent stayed on as first Resident Commissioner since 1901, at the incorporation in the British Western Pacific Territories ( under a single High Commissioner, till its 1976 dissolution, in Suva or Honoria ), until the abolition of the post at the 1965 self-government grant as territory in free association with New Zealand, having its own cabinet ( still under the British Crown, which after the 1976 appoints a special King's / Queens Representative as well as a High Commissioner ).
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These arrivals are evidenced by an older road in Toi, the Ara Metua, which runs around most of Rarotonga, and is believed to be at least 1200 years old.
Image: Titikaveka, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. jpg | White sandy beach at Titikaveka.
* Rarotonga at its best
He then combined farming with sandalwood trading in the South Pacific, where the captain of the ship died at Rarotonga and Wentworth safely brought the ship back to Sydney.
Located at north-north-east of Rarotonga, 9 degrees south of the equator.
* Photo of James Allen addressing Returned Soldiers at Rarotonga, 1919
Also Sarah Buzacott, the wife of Aaron Buzacott the elder, who was a teacher at the London Missionary Society college at Rarotonga in the South Seas.
Air Rarotonga Saab 340 on the tarmac at Rarotonga International Airport
File: Air New Zealand at Rarotonga Int Airport. JPG | An Air New Zealand Boeing 767 airliner at Rarotonga International Airport
File: Air Rarotonga Saab. JPG | Air Rarotonga Saab 340 inter-island airliner at the airport
File: Air New Zealand Airbus A320. JPG | Air New Zealand Airbus A320 awaiting passengers at Rarotonga International
File: Planes at Rarotonga Airport. JPG | Air Rarotonga Saab 340 and Embraer Bandeirante
File: Air New Zealand 777. JPG | Air New Zealand Boeing 777 at Rarotonga
Even the ubiquitous wild roosters are well adjusted compared with their dysfunctional cousins in Rarotonga who start crowing at 10pm and go right through the night as well as most of the next day.
Rugby League first came to the islands in 1986, with first international competition in the Pacific Cup in 1986 and it was held at Rarotonga and won by the NZ Maori.
at and since
I've noticed the way you've been looking at me ever since we met ''.
since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.
But, since they have rejected both narrative and emotional continuity, how are they to unify the impressive array of materials at their disposal??
The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.
At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;
You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.
But at the touch of Hume and Voltaire the noble or hideous visitations which had haunted the mind since Agamemnon's blood cried out for vengeance, disappeared altogether or took tawdry refuge among the gaslights of melodrama.
He seems to have at least a few 30- and 50-megaton bombs on hand, since we cannot assume that he has exploded his entire stock.
He had been at lessons in the schoolhouse since they returned from Harpers Ferry.
He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.
`` I have been waiting across the street at the post office since dawn.
He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.
There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.
Prior to and since 1960 the rest of the support allotment is matched at rates related to the fiscal capacity of the State, with a pivot of 40% State ( or 60% Federal ) participation in total program costs.
Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.
Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.
Last year Robert Harris, a leading Junior Handler entered the Dog Judging Contest ( Junior ) at the International KC of Chicago show and had the highest score in judging of any Junior since the Class' inception.
They did not complain at the inhuman hour of starting ( seven in the morning ), nor of the tariff, which was reasonable since it covered everything but the tobacco.
For one thing, the driver usually sees less and has less fun than his passengers since it becomes pretty necessary for him to keep at least one eye on the road.
Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.
But since the gourmet insisted that it is done that way at the most fashionable dinners, the girl reluctantly agreed.
We would have preferred, however, to have had the rest of the orchestra refrain from laughing at this and other spots on the recording, since it mars an otherwise sober, if not lofty, performance.
at and 1888
As he was bedridden at the end of his life, Alcott's daughter Louisa May came to visit him at Louisburg on March 1, 1888.
During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1888, many potsherds of the Mycenaean style were found ; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the temple site at Delphi produced nothing distinctively Aegean ( in dating ).
" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.
Starting from 1888, Lewis M. Norton taught at MIT the first chemical engineering course in the United States.
Coca-Cola founders Asa G. Candler and Dr. John S. Pemberton are seen together at Asa G. Candler & Co. pharmacy, 47 Peachtree St., Atlanta in the only extant albumen photograph from 1888.
* 1888 – Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
IX: an English translation of an Arabic text, published at Rome in 1888.
Inscriptions found at Nippur, where extensive excavations were carried on during 1888 – 1900 by John P Peters and John Henry Haynes, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, show that Enlil was the head of an extensive pantheon.
Thayer ’ s last piece, dated June 24, 1888, was a ballad entitled " Casey " (" Casey at the Bat ").
In 1888, Douglass spoke at Claflin College, a black college in Orangeburg, South Carolina and the oldest such institution in the state.
They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and, having shortened the name from Fulham Excelsior to its present form in 1888, they then won the West London League in 1893 at the first attempt.
The Flammarion engraving ( 1888 ) depicts a traveller who arrives at the edge of a flat Earth and sticks his head through the firmament.
He moved to Vienna with his family in 1888, and studied at the Vienna Conservatory ( composition with Robert Fuchs, cello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger and theory ( the counterpoint class ) with Anton Bruckner ), graduating " with excellence " in 1896.
In early 1888, Carver obtained a $ 300 loan at the Bank of Ness City for education.
In 1888, the old emperor William I died at the age of 90.
People gathered in the forest, at the passage of the steamboat “ Roi des Belges ” (“ King of the Belgians ”) in 1888.
Schliemann made a third excavation at Troy in 1882 – 1883, an excavation of Tiryns with Wilhelm Dörpfeld in 1884, a fourth excavation at Troy, also with Dörpfeld ( who emphasized the importance of strata ), in 1888 – 1890.
In 1888 he headed the commission that established the Official Table of Drops, listing how far a person of a particular weight should be dropped when hanged for a capital offence ( the only method of ' judicial execution ' in the United Kingdom at that time ), to ensure an instant and painless death, by cleanly breaking the neck between the 2nd and 3rd vertebrae, an ' exacting science ', eventually brought to perfection by Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint.
Keller with Anne Sullivan Macy | Anne Sullivan vacationing at Cape Cod in July 1888
File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 072. jpg | Edgar Degas, Dancers at The Bar, 1888, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.
* 1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time.
* 1888 – The poem " Casey at the Bat ", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
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