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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 185, 7 August 1890, Page 6

ffW BEINQ PUBLISHED, BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY, .. ■ . .. • • -a ■•» Earli History or New Zeilmd A Strange Story of British Pluck and Adventure, of Love and Hate, of Crime, of War and Bloodshed, and of Peaceful Christian Effort and Self-sacrifice. ■ THE TOLT7ME WILL CONSIST OF FROM !N FOUR PARTS 7©© TO 800 PAGES IN FOUR PARTS WITH NEARLY TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS Executed in first-class style, pourtraying the incidents referred to in the narrative, DEPICTING HISTOKICAL SCENES, ILLUSTRATING MAORI MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND SHOWING THE PRIMITIVE CONDITION OF THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS, Which have since grown into the SPLENDID CITIES OF TO3DAY. |Borne of these sketches have never before been published, having lain in the possession of old settlers j othersata taken from old works that are now extremely rare, and inaccessible to the ordinary reader. Among the subjects treated pictorially are the following ILLUSTBATIOIsrS %

Fait I. [FRONTISPIECE: FERN GULLY.—A beautifully • executed Chromo • Lithograph in Sight Printings, drawn from the Original Water-colour Painting by Sfcurtevant, JTabman's Anchorage, Admibaiatt Bay. lilurder oy Tasman's Boat's Crbw at I Mabsaobb Bat. !Tni! Thuet: Kixqs, as sighted by Tosman. PORTBAIX OF CapTAHC COOK. Rklics of Captain Cook. Facsimile oy Cook's Rkcobd o? tub Tkansit of Vbmus. 'FoHTiyiBD Village, Povrbty BAr, in 1888. Landscape of Povbhty Bat. Tβ Ahitjku, whwe Cook landed. Pbbbokatjsd Rook, Tolaoo Buakespeahs Head and Cook's Bay, mercury bay, at7ckland. Decorated Head of tub Chief Raufakaua'b Canoe. Ca&ved Head or Canos at Kaiwarawaba. Ship Cove, Qoben Charlotte Soukd. Tomb of the Chief Humwknda. Family is Ddsky Bat. Maori Oahvbd Kkzfe, ok Saw. A Dead Chikf. Maori Tombs. The CBHBMomr of Hohoi, ob Pbsbsino Noses. Interior of a Maobi Hippab;. Whatas ok Patdkas (etorehousee for food). Cook's Chabi or Nkw Zhaland. A Maori Wak Dance. Staq'k Eueotbd fob a Maori Festival. Governor Phiixup, Fireb Governor of New South Watoa. Sydney Covb Mr 1788. A SOBVEY OF XHB SfiTOUtMENT IN N.S.W> A Chain Qano. Qovebnob King. Norfolk Island, ebovring Convicts' Quarters and Nepeau Island. Ths old Military Babbaoks, Nobfolk L Wawanoi, Chatham Island. Map oir Chatham Island. Stone Weapons of thb Mokiorl Whaling off the North Capb of N.Z. Sydney, Norfolk Island, 1793. South View ob , Sydnby, N.S.W., 1793. The Chief Tβ Pahl Bust of Hongi. A Maori Wab Expedition. Rev. Samdbl Mabsdkn. Sanoihtt: Rev. Samuel Marsden 's Cottage. Scene of the Botd Massacre, Whangaboa Habbotjb. Spot whebe thb Botd dbitobd to aftbb THE MaSSACBB. Whalers at the Bat of Islands m 1820. KOBOBABEKA BSIAOH IN 1838. PORIBOA Bay, Wellington, an Early Resort for Whalera. Rangihabata's Pα, with the Island of Mana. Thorn's Whaunq Station, noab Poribua. Portrait of 'Johnky , , Jones, one of the Early Otago Whalera. A Maori Tiki, worn round the neck. Tappo Pα, Cook Stbait, and Ngawtoa VnxAGJs. Thb Great Orvbm RAnaisAßA. The Chief Tβ Pehi. TAMooura on Fach 0 »;»T3b Vast

; AMONGST THE ABOVE WILL BE NOTICED SEVERAL PANORAMIC VIEWS OF EARLY SETTLEMENT. IN BOTH ISLANDS, WITH SCENES AND<SKETCHES OF THE FIRST STREETS AND BUILDINGS. ; ALSO,APPENDED TO THE BOOK, WILL BE PUBLISHED 4 tis6otf Early Settlers up to the Year 1845^ •■."'■■'"■ : . ; - •■ :.'• ."- -- ; ■••'■■ •■ '"' ' ; ' :^ • . ; ■'■" ' •'• -:"' J ' ,,: '.V ■ . '■:■ .■■■'-■•.,.■ '■■ ■ ■■'■■■. ■ : - ' .; ■ . --. ■ •-■ . . ■.-.■' ;.; -v H. BRETT, Publisher.