Balclutha Main Topgallant Mast
Balclutha may refer to: * ''Balclutha'' (1886), a sailing ship built in 1886 and now preserved in San Francisco, California * ''Balclutha'' (genus), a leafhopper genus in the tribe Macrostelini * Balclutha, New Zealand, a town in the Otago region of New Zealand * Sir Charles Cameron, 1st Baronet (1841–1924), Scottish doctor, newspaper editor and politician * A small, short-lived settlement that occupied some of the same area as Louisa, Kentucky Louisa is a home rule-class city located at the merger of the Levisa and Tug Forks into the Big Sandy River. It is located in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in the United States, and is the seat of its county. The population was 2,467 at the 2010 ...

Balclutha (1886)
''Balclutha'', also known as ''Star of Alaska'', ''Pacific Queen'', or Sailing Ship ''Balclutha'', is a steel-hulled full-rigged ship that was built in 1886. She is representative of several different commercial ventures, including lumber, salmon, and grain. She is a U.S. National Historic Landmark and is currently preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California. She was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 7 November 1976. History ''Balclutha'' was built in 1886 by Charles Connell and Company of Scotstoun in Glasgow, Scotland, for Robert McMillan, of Dumbarton, Scotland. Her namesake is said to be the eponymous town of Balclutha, New Zealand, but her name also refers to her first homeport, Glasgow, Scotland, which is a "City on the Clyde" - the meaning of her name derived from the Gaelic ''Baile Chluaidh''. Designed as a general trader, ''Balclutha'' rounded Cape Horn 17 times in thirteen years. During this peri ...
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Balclutha (genus)
Balclutha may refer to: * ''Balclutha'' (1886), a sailing ship built in 1886 and now preserved in San Francisco, California * ''Balclutha'' (genus), a leafhopper genus in the tribe Macrostelini * Balclutha, New Zealand, a town in the Otago region of New Zealand * Sir Charles Cameron, 1st Baronet (1841–1924), Scottish doctor, newspaper editor and politician * A small, short-lived settlement that occupied some of the same area as Louisa, Kentucky Louisa is a home rule-class city located at the merger of the Levisa and Tug Forks into the Big Sandy River. It is located in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in the United States, and is the seat of its county. The population was 2,467 at the 2010 ...

Macrostelini
Macrostelini is a tribe in the Deltocephalinae subfamily of leafhoppers. Macrostelini contains 37 genera and over 300 species. The tribe has a cosmopolitan distribution. Some species in the genus ''Cicadulina'' are agricultural pests and transmit maize streak virus ''Maize streak virus'' (MSV) is a virus primarily known for causing maize streak disease (MSD) in its major host, and which also infects over 80 wild and domesticated grasses. It is an insect-transmitted maize pathogen in the genus ''Mastrevirus ... in Sub-saharan Africa. Genera There are currently 37 described genera in Macrostelini: References External links * Macrosteliniat bugguide.net Deltocephalinae Hemiptera tribes Taxa named by George Willis Kirkaldy {{Deltocephalinae-stub ...
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Balclutha, New Zealand
Balclutha ( mi, Iwikatea) is a town in South Otago, lying towards the end of the Clutha River, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is about halfway between Dunedin and Gore on the Main South Line railway, State Highway 1 and the Southern Scenic Route. Balclutha has a population of (as of ), and is the largest town in South Otago. The Clutha District Council is based in Balclutha. The major service centre for the fertile farming region around the lower reaches of the Clutha River, it is also the nearest large town to the Catlins, a scenic region of native forest, wildlife, and rugged coastline. History Known locally as "Clutha", Balclutha's name – and that of the river on which it stands – reflects the Scottish origin of the town's settlement. The name comes from Scottish Gaelic and would be spelt Baile Chluaidh in that language; this translates into English as "Town on the Clyde". James McNeil from Bonn Hill, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, who is re ...
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Sir Charles Cameron, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Cameron, 1st Baronet, (18 December 1841 – 2 October 1924), was a Scottish doctor, newspaper editor and Liberal politician. Cameron was born in Dublin, the son of John Cameron, newspaper proprietor of Glasgow and Dublin. He was educated at Madras College, St Andrews, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He also studied at medical schools in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, but never practised medicine. He became editor of the ''North British Daily Mail'' (later incorporated into the '' Daily Record'') in 1864, and was managing proprietor of the paper from 1873. At the 1874 general election, Cameron was elected as one of the three Members of Parliament (MPs) for Glasgow. The constituency was broken up under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and he was elected at the 1885 general election as the MP for the new Glasgow College constituency. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1895 general election. Cameron was created baronet Cameron of Balclutha, Renfrew, on 7 Augu ...
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