ANCIENT MASONRY REMAINS.
Mr F. W. Christian, 8.A., delivered last night, before the Wellington Philosophical Society, a lecture on the remarkable masonry remains found in Western Polynesia. In the discussion which followed MiHarding remarked that it was strange that so little, if any, ancient stonework had been found in New Zealand, when it was so abundant elsewhere in the Pacific. He mentioned the extraordinary stone rampart seen by Mr Colenso many years ago when crossing Ruahine, on the summit of that range. Though it might have been a natural feature it was so suggestive of human handiwork that Mr Colenso regretted that heavy snow and failing provisions compelled him to hurry past without giving it careful examination. Sir James Hector said stone fortifications were not wholly unknown to the Maoris, and he described a. remarkable example in Taranaki. Other ancient works of the kind doubtless existed in New Zealand buried, like those already described, in forest growth.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9816, 27 August 1897, Page 5
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