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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 135, 9 June 1891, Page 6

TSTQWJBEINQ PUBLISHED, BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY. Early History of New Zealand' $ Strange Story of British Pluck and Adventure, of Love and Hate, of Crime, ofjj Warand Bloodshed, and of Peaceful Christian Effort and Self-sacrifice. THE VOLUME WILL CONSIST OE FROM IN FOUR PARTS 700 TO Ho© FAGrES « N p O« R PARTS WITH NEARLY TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS; Executed in first-class style, pourtraying the incidents referred to in the narrative, DEPICTING HISTOKICAL SCENES, ILLUSTRATING MAOBI MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND SHOWING THE PEIMITIVE CONDITION OE THE EUEOPEAN SETTLEMENTS, WMdi have since grown into the SPLENDID CITIES OF TO-DAY. fßome of these sketches have never before been published, having lain in the possesaion of old settlers } others are taken feom old works that are now extremely rare, and inaccessible to the ordinary reader. Asaong the subjects treated pictorially are the following IIiLTJS T.EATI OIsTS

Part I. {FRONTISPIECE: FERN GULLY.—A beautifully • executed Chromo - Lithograph in Eight Printings, drawn from the Original Water-colour Painting by Sturtevant. Cabman's Anchorage, Admiralty Bay. lMubder ov Tabman's Boat's Crew at ' Massacre Bat. The Threk Kings, as sighted by Tasmao. poetrait of captain cook. Relics of Captain Ccok. Facsimile of Cook's Record of the Transit of Venus. Fortified Village, Poverty Bay, in 1836. Landscape of Poverty Bay. Tβ Ariuru, where Cook landed. Perforated Rook, Tolago Bay. Shakespeare Head and Cook's Bat, Mbroury. Bay, Auckland. JDbcorated Head of the Chibf Rattparaha's Canoe. CJabvkd Head of Canoe at Kaiwarawara. Ship Cove, Quekn Charlotte Sound. Tomb of the Chief Huriwenua. Family in Dusky Bay. Maori Carved Knife, or Saw. A Dead Chibf. Ma<oki Tombs. The Ceremony of Hongi, or Pbessing Noses. Interior of a Maori Hippah. Whatas or Patukas (storehouses for food}. Cook's Chasjt or New Zealand* 'A MaobS Wai»-IJSmioe. Stage E£sc*»e» a Maori Festival. Governor Phillip, First Governor of New South Wales. Bydney Cove in 1788. A Survey of the Settlement in N.S.W. A Chain Gang. Governor King. Norfolk Island, ehowing Convicts' Quarters and Nepean Island. The old Military Barracks, Norfolk I. IWaitangi, Chatham Island. IMap of Chatham Island. Btone Weapons of the Moriori. I Whaling off the North Cape op N.Z. Sydney, Norfolk Island, 1793. South View of Sydney, N.S.W., 1793. The Chief Te Pahi. Bust of Hongi. LA Maori War Expedition. JRev. Samuel Mabsden. Kangihu: Rev. Samuel Marsden's Cottage. Scene of the Boyd Massacre, Whangaroa Harbour, ijpot where thb botd drifted to after THE MaSSACBB. iWhalers at the Bay of Islands in 1820. ikororareka beach in 1836. Torirua Bat, Wellington, an Early Resorb for Whalers. Hangihaeata's Pα, with the Island of Mane. Thorn's Whaling Station, near Porirua. Portrait of 'Johnny , Jones, one of the Early Otago Whalers. A Maori Tiki, worn round the neck. Taupo Pα, Cook Strait, and Ngatitoa Village. The Great Chixp Raupabaha. The Chief Tβ Pzhi. Tattooing on Faob oj Tβ Pxhz.

AMONGST THE ABOVE WILL BE NOTICED SEVERAL PANORAMIC VIEWS OF EARLY SETTLEMENT) l IN BOTH ISLANDS, WITH SCENES AND SKETCHES OF THE FIRST STREETS AND BUILDINGS. ' ] ALSO, APPENDED TO THE BOOK, WILL BE PUBLISHED A Lkt of Early Settlers up to the Tear 1845\ ' % H. BRETT, Publisher. | a £