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A two-storied Victorian dwelling that sits high above Rue Balguerie in Akaroa impressed a child so much that she thought it must be the home of a...

OPINION: Think about the past to make hanging in the sky more bearable

Akaroa wears its French history on its tricolor sleeve.

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Château de Chantilly, which was once a James Bond villian's lair, is at the centre of a row involving the descendant of France’s last king.

There is perhaps no more pervasive and widely known method of fortune telling than that of palm reading, also variously called chiromancy, chirosophy, or chirology. Far from the common image as a carnival parlor trick, the practice of divining information and future events through the lines of one’s hand has been practiced in cultures around the world for centuries, using a mind-boggling array of different methods and interpretations. In Europe it became so popular in the 19th century that th...

THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of The The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. Fifty years of being British was celebrated at Akaroa on August 11, 1890, half a century after the Union Jack was raised there to outflank the French. The glorious history was reiterated before “great crowds” at the Jubilee. “History told them how the French had contemplated taking possession of Akaroa, and how Governor Hobson​ had despatched​ the Britomart to s...