New Zealand has two commuter rail systems: in Auckland and in Wellington ( Tranz Metro ).

The university has also educated 26 foreign Heads of State, including President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, President of East Timor Jose Ramos Horta, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and other historical figures such as Wellington Koo, Gaston Eyskens, and T. V. Soong.

The Baron has an agent in the Atreides household: Leto's own physician, the trusted Suk doctor Wellington Yueh.

This praise has earned him a strong reputation in the modern world, and he was regarded as a great strategist by men like Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington.

In recent years, Victoria has had to expand out of its original campus in Kelburn, and new campuses have been set up in Te Aro ( architecture and design ), Pipitea ( opposite Parliament, housing the law, and commerce and administration schools ) and Karori ( education )-the Wellington College of Education, established in 1880, merged with the University to become its revived Faculty of Education on 1 January 2005.

Victoria University of Wellington has more than 40 research centres and institutes, including

In July 2011 a J D Wetherspoon public house opened in Withering's birthplace, Wellington, and has been named after him.

Wellington has retreated from Quatre Bras to Waterloo, but Ney returns to Napoleon to deliver his report on the Quatre Bras engagement, which angers Napoleon, who had expected Ney to pursue Wellington, who is now free to choose his own battlefield.

The Brown Corpus has also spawned a number of similarly structured corpora: the LOB Corpus ( 1960s British English ), Kolhapur ( Indian English ), Wellington ( New Zealand English ), Australian Corpus of English ( Australian English ), the Frown Corpus ( early 1990s American English ), and the FLOB Corpus ( 1990s British English ).

In the foreground, he has grouped the leading statesmen from the Lords: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 ), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 ) and the Whiggy ( British political faction ) | Whigs on the left ; and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ) and the Tories ( political faction ) | Tories on the right.

They are common in hilly cities, such as Wellington, New Zealand which has about 300.

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness has a presence in New Zealand, running temples in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch.

A colony of male fur seals has long been established near Red Rocks on the Makara Coast, west of Wellington.

The University has campuses in Palmerston North ( sites at Turitea and Hokowhitu ), Wellington ( in the suburb of Mount Cook ) and Auckland ( at Albany ), with the largest in terms of student numbers being the Turitea site.

Massey University has campuses in the Manawatu at Palmerston North ( sites at Turitea and Hokowhitu ), at Wellington ( in the suburb of Mt Cook ) and on Auckland's North Shore at Albany.

The Wellington campus primarily specializes in Design ( College of Creative Arts ) and Music ( New Zealand School of Music ), and has around 4, 000 students.

On Wellington Street the Woolwich Grand Theatre ( formerly the ABC Regal Cinema and Flamingo's Nightclub ) has recently reopened as an arts centre with a cafe.

Yarmouth has two piers, Britannia Pier and Wellington Pier.

Barbara O ' Keefe has served as mayor of the village of Wellington since 1993.

Wellington has one sister city, as designated by the Sister Cities International:

He has the late Duke of Wellington class of nose, and his eyes, which have a serious and almost sad expression, are rather sunken, or appear so from the prominence of the curve nasal appearance.

Mr. Wellington offers Peter a drink, and immediately afterwards, Peter realizes that he has been drugged, presumably because Mr. Wellington doesn't believe him and wants him quiet.

The town has a medical practice on Wellington Road, and a dental surgery on Bollington Road.

Less than two weeks after Wellington made the above remarks, he was forced to resign after an adverse vote in a Commons vote on a confidence motion.

He made a point of returning to Wellington on an annual basis for his high school reunions up until 1999 when his physical health worsened significantly.

Before reaching Wellington ( on New Zealand's North Island ), brief stops were made at Port Hardy ( on d ' Urville Island ) and Queen Charlotte Sound ( on New Zealand's South Island ) and Challenger passed through the Cook Strait to reach Wellington.

They eventually made up a large part of the populations of Concordia, Emma, Wellington, Napoleon, Higginsville, Mayview, and Lexington.

He made a point of returning to Wellington on an annual basis for his high school reunions up until 1999 when his physical health worsened significantly.

He had already urged Wellington into active interference in the Greek War of Independence, and he had made several visits to Paris, where he foresaw with great accuracy the impending overthrow of the Bourbons.

An attempt was made by the Duke of Wellington in September 1830 to induce Palmerston to re-enter the cabinet, but he refused to do so without Lord Lansdowne and Lord Grey, two notable Whigs.

Greater Wellington Regional Council is a statutory body made up of 13 regional councillors, representing six constituencies:

On 2 July, the Duke of Wellington made his headquarters at the commune.

Plans to close RNZAF Whenuapai ( and consolidate all operations to Ohakea ) made by the previous government, were overturned in March 2009., the RNZAF maintain 3 Air Bases ( Whenuapai, Ohakea, Woodbourne ) and Air Movements Terminals located at Wellington International Airport, and Christchurch International Airport.

Wellington boots are waterproof and are most often made from rubber or polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ) a halogenated polymer.

Wellington boots were at first made of leather.

The plot is made possible by the betrayal of the Duke by the family's Suk doctor, Wellington Yueh ; Duke Leto is killed, and House Atreides is essentially destroyed.

This production was made into a film in 1996, directed by David Wellington.

In April 1645 he superseded Sir Richard Grenville, being made colonel-general of the counties of Devon and Cornwall, took Wellington House, near Taunton, by assault, and then proceeded to invest Taunton.

It was built by the firm of Hill, Norman & Beard Ltd ( bought by Christie in 1923 ); after the Second World War John Christie made a gift of sections of the soundboards, pipes and structural parts to the rebuilt Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks ( which had been destroyed in the blitz ); the case and console remain at Glyndebourne.

In his last interview, given to the Herald on Sunday from his hospital bed, he made a potent intervention in New Zealand's 2005 election campaign by saying he " wanted to get out of bed and get a wheel-chair to Wellington " to stop any relaxation of his ban on nuclear ships.

In January 1828, he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Duke of Wellington ; like his leader, he disliked Roman Catholic emancipation, which he voted against in 1828.

In the Duke of Wellington's government of 1828, Ellenborough was made Lord Privy Seal ; he also took part in the business of the foreign office, as an unofficial assistant to Wellington, who recognised his talents.

This was his last service in the Peninsular War, because his liaison with Lady Charlotte, the wife of Henry Wellesley, afterwards Lord Cowley, made it impossible subsequently for him to serve with Wellington, Wellesley's brother.

A week was spent at Wellington Valley breaking in oxen and horses and on 7 December the real start into comparatively little known country was made.

But for first purchase made of the area that is now Wellington and the Hutt Valley, every effort was made to be scrupulously fair and open.

NICAM stereo was first made available on TV2 in the Auckland region in 1989, also during the early 1990s Simulated Stereo was available in Wellington on TV2.