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ITOW BEING PUBLISHED, BY BTIBSOBITTKOT JUSTLY, Early History of New zeaiahb ''■■■ it: A Strange Story of British Pluck and Adventure, of Love and 'Hate,* of Crime, War and Bloodshed, and of Peaceful Christian Effort and Self-sacrifice. THE VOLUME "V7ILL OONSIST OF TROM . in four parts 700 TO 800 PAGES 'W fqurpartsi WITH NEARLY TWO HUNDEED ILLUSTRATIONS! Executed in first-class style, pourtraying the incidents feferred to in the narrative,. ~ ,; DEPICTING HISTOKIOAL SCENES, ILLUSTRATING MAORI MANNERS.ANBI CUSTOMS, AND SHOWING THE PRIMITIVE CONDITION OF THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS, WMch hare since grown into the SPLENDID CITIES OF TO-DAY. )Bome of theae .ketches have never before bpep published, having Mn in the poeaesaion of old others taken from old works that are now extremely rare, and inaccessible to the ordinary reader. Among the subjects treated piotorially are the following ILXiTJSTE-^-TIOISrS

Part I. ■FRONTISPIECE: FERN GULLY.—A beautifully - executed Chrpmo - Lithograph in Eight Printings, drawn from the Original Water-colour Painting by Sturtevant. ITasman's Anohobage, Admiralty Bat. Mubdeb op Tabman'b Boat's Cbew at Massacre Bat. $he Thrbk Kings, as sighted by Taeman. Pobtrait of Captain Cook. Relics of Captain Cook. Facsimile ~ ..of Cook's Reoobd of the Transit of Vkkds. Fortified Village, Poverty Bay, in 1836. Landscape of Poverty Bay. Tβ Akiubu, where Cook landed. Pebfobated Rock, Tolaqo Shakespbabe Head and Cook's Bat, Mercury Bay, Auckland. Dkcobatbd Head or the Chief Raupabaha's Oanob. Carved Head of Canoe at Kaiwarawara. Ship Cove, Queen Chabloxte Sound. Tomb of the Chief, Hubiwbnua, Family in Dusky Bay. Maobi Oarved Kkife, ob Saw. ■ A Dead Chief. Maobi Tombs. The Ceremony of Honoi, ob Pressing Noses. Intebiob of a Maobi Hifpah. Wuatas ob Patuicas (storehouses for food}, Cook's Chart of New Zealand. A Maobi War Dance, Stags Erected fob a Maobi Festival. Governor Pmixtr, First Governor of New South Wales. Sidney Covk in 1788. . A Survey of the Settlement in N.S.W, A Chain Gang. Governor Kino. Nobfolk Island, showing Convicts' Quarters and Nepean Island. The old Military Barracks, Norfolk I. Waitangi, Chatham Island. Map of Chatham Island. Stone Weapons of the Mobiobi. Whaling off thb Nobth Cape op N.Z. Sydney, Nobfolk Island, 1793. South View of Sydney, N.S.W., 1793. The Chief Tk Pahl Bust off Hosgi. A Maori Wab Expedition. Rev. Samuel Mabsdbn. Uangihit: Rev. Samuel Marsden's Cottage. Scene of Tns Boyd Massacre, Whangaboa Harboub. Spot whebm the Boyd dbiftbd to aiter the Massacre. Whalers at the Bay of Islands in 1.820. iCoBOBABEKA BKACH IN 1836. Pobirua Bay, Wellington, an Early Resort for Whalers. Rangihabata's Pα, with the Island of Mana, Thorn's Whaling Station, near Poeibua. POBTRAIT OF 'JOHNNY , JONES, One of the Early Otago Whalers. A Maobi Tiki, worn round the neck. Taupo Pα, Cook Stbait, and Noatitoa VILLAQB, The Great Chihf Bavpabaha. The Chief Tβ Pehi, Tattooing on Facs o* Ta Pbhl

AMONGST THE ABOVE WIIiL BE NOTICED SEVERAL v PANORAMIC yiEWS OF EARLY SETTLEMENT) A . ..--' >■/«*. IN BOTH IShAUDfy '■-.;,. ... , ■ .-. . -"'v^& WITH SCENES AND SKETCHES OF THET FIRST STREETS AND BUILDINGS. ALSO, APPENDED TO THE BOOK, WILL BB PUBLISHED •'• A List of Early Settlers up to the Year 18451 8. BSIETT, Publisher.

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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 165, 15 July 1890, Page 6

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