NEW ZEALAND HISTORY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6489, 8 April 1908, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND HISTORY

THE HON. E. McNAB'S WORKS. I-EESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHUECH, April ?. In conversation with a reporter this morning the Hon. R. McNab said that volume on© of the Government historical records, which .woe delayed on account of the index being destroyed in the fir© in Parliament Buildings, had., been finished. The whole book is now printed, and the last sheet, index, preface, and title page are all revised, and he had been, promised on his return after Easter to bo put in possession of the first lot of bound volumes. . yV , . In regard to the second edition of his own work, "Murihlku," he thought -that it would come out in June of next year. The work on it is done in spar© halfhours, and he did not get many of them out of a day. / The second edition would extend over the whole of the South Island. The first edition went of! very well, all the copies of it having been purchased. . , There was, he said, a comparative rush on early history works just now. Dr Hockeme book on the life of the ROv. S. Mareden, the first New Zealand missionary, wa© now in the pointer's hands, and it would be a classic work. There was also a bibliography from the Doctor's pen which was now in type In Wellington.