HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12283, 9 July 1914, Page 7

HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND.

DR M'NAB'S RESEARCHES. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, July 8. The researches of Dr R. M;Nab into the earlv history of New Zealand have • been advanced by his visit to Sydney, | whence he returned to-day alter t an> I absence of a month. Dr JE'Nflb told ' a Post- rpresentative that the first volume, of his .wo rk, ontho, history, ol ■: the -North'' Island^New Zealand was just about to lie issued, and he is nowbusy with the second. lh« faret volume covers a period from 1u42 to ISIB, and the_ second will run from ISP) to 1832. He has just visited Syclnev in order to obtain from newspapers there a quantity of materials relating , to New Zealand in the second period. He had to cut his visit short, but fie • was able to complete his search up till : 1880 In. addition to this -work he con-

tinned the investigation hist ve;ir oi' onrlv Supreme Court records in Svdnev. These papers contain much that relates to causes in the court: dealin" with New Zealand affairs at ;i. time before there wns any white settlement here, to say nothing of a court.