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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11452, 17 June 1899, Page 6

A Great Historical Publication. OTAGO DAILY TIMES AND ': WITNESS CHRISTMAS ANNUAL' * 1809. ' ' r «E PUBLISHED \i TIME FOR DELIVERY EVERY* ': WHERE lEFQRE CHRISTMAS. ' s The Proprietors of the Otago Daily Times and Witness wish to lay before the readers : or both.papers a Synopsis of the Contents of. 3 their 1899 CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, which will be published at a sufficiently early date » to enable its being ma-Led to the Old Country :" m time for receipt before Christmas. The ; main feature will deal with the v , ; Engrossing]}- interesting sftbject of ■ \ WRECKS OF THE COJ.OISY I From the ante-settlement days up to the - middle of 1899. \ The letterpress, the compilation of which, has entailed many months' research amongold newspaper, files and* recoids of various descriptions, is .from the pen of the favourite Witness writer, , * FABIAN .'BELL,' . . and though fact, not lancy, Las been the pie- \ vahng note of the compilation throughout, the - | narrative is written in,.a manner which cannot I fail to interest the readers from beginning to ; end. It is at this early stage scarcely possible X to give a full list of the photogravures wh lC h will illustrate the story df marine .disaster on ■ our "rugged coast-line,, but they will be worthy, J of the subject. The following 'incomplete I enumeration will give rteders an idea of the \ pictorial contents or this section of-our cofnin- I Christmas Annual; . c \ " The Father recognises his own Child." From f „ „ speclal dfawmg by Miss F. Hodgkins. f For hours I clung to the spar with mv hair t twisted round it." -From special drawing \ by Miss Hodgkms. \ , . ; "The Captain's Directions." From special " - drawing by Miss Hodgkms. ) '•They rigged a Flag on the Highest Point."- f From a drawing bj F. E. C. '■• . i "Abandonment.' From,a drawing by F. E. « "Steam to the Rescue." \ From a drawing by I F. E. C. » i • Allegro and Ammomer, ; two valuable' horses i swimming through the surf." From a drawing by F. E. C. "A Pathetic Tombstone."—Figurehead, Derry Castle. I "The General Grant's Castaways." An in- ' teiestmg group of passengers and crew I clad in their sealskins. i S.S. Pelham, wrecked at the Bluff. I S.S.^ Otago, wrecked at ,'Chasland's Mistake. r > "Relics of*the past"; present-condition $ of the wreck. . j, "Tararua Acre." • g City of Dunedm, wrecked in Cook Strait, Mot I 20, 1865. . J .j Wreck of the s.s. Otago. . " ' * I The Fifeshire saving Crew oi Patricia. k , " British pluck." > " *s ."Wreck of the s.s. Mataura. " , * Officers of the Mataura. ' " Wreck of the s.s. "fl air*rapa. " JThe Wairarapa s'Stewardesses. ' * £ The Green Cabinet Port Chalmers. ' ?■ Ths Cospatrick. ' * Wieck of the s.s.' Tararua. - ,' The Jessie Readman. . ' 2 Portrait of Captain' Matthew Gibson (Jesslt !« Readman). '^ Wreck of the s.s. Taranaki. • , f :Th'e s.s. Kakanui.,. * Stranded. ' I -1 I Wl-eck^of the s.s. Elginshire. ' ' I Wreck of the s.s. Taftroa. ■ ' Captain Garrard.' "' ' jl ' \ Boiler of the s.s.O'tago; relic of the past. " * I Benvenue and City ot' Perth, Timaru beaoS." ' 1882. . Ship Inconstant, wrecked on Te Aro- beach, \ August 10; 1850, (John Phmmer, fajher of S "Wellington," standing in foreground). '" ' " I Ship r Pleione, ashore 6n Waakanae 'beßcn,^' f March 19, 1888. > • j Ocean Mail ashore and s.s. Patea steaming out Patea River Heads, February 11, 1882. Stranding of the John. Gamble at Timaru,'May 1899. - ' Fairy Queen ashore at Timaru, Augu3t, 1873, ■ | Wreck of the City of Cashmere. j Wreck o"f the'Graf ton. \ Lonely Grave,' Auckland Isles. ! Dwelling-places of Shipwrecked Crews. Shipwrecked Sailor's Grave. Figurehead, Derry \Castle. Derry Castle Hut, Enderby Island. , j Victoria Post Office, Port Ross. " [ S.s. Wanaka, wrecked at Puketapu Reef, New \ , Plymouth. , r | U.S.S Suva, wrecked near entrance to "West- f port Harbour. J Wreck of the Surat at False Islet, Cailm'O > River. • t i The breaking up of" the s.s ; Tekapo. , Group of 14 Wellington Hulks. ', > Etc., Etc., Etc. ' ' ' - i "FABIAN BELL" has^given her interesSi j ing: xompilation 'the telling -title of . j "The Toll of the Sea,"' j and explains that it is a complete record oi ' I the chief wrecks which have occurred in Ifew' ? Zealand waters from the year 1795 to the pie- » sent date, together with the most interesting ', events connected with them. ' j OTHER FEATURES" \ OF THE PUBLICATION. * The story of " The Maori Leap," "told in*'' | connection with the projecting wall of rock. • which attracts the eye on the Taien. River soon ' > aflei leaving Henley for the Taieri Mouth, '. has had many exponents, and this is the sub- ,! ]ect adopted by Mr F. A. Joseph m hlis 'sketch I entitled . ... ; UTE REREN6A OTU HOKAI- i RANfii" V ' \ The facts dealt with in the narrative hays ,' been carefully gleaned from the lips of one \ or two of the survivors of the older generation of Maoris nt Henley, and the writer has dealt » with his subject man interesting and pleasing ! manner. This sketch contains a number ol : illustrations from photographs of the various j points dealt with, including one of Korako Matene, the Maori Leap, John Bull's Head, Moua Hill, besides viowb near Governor's • Chimney (Taieri Eiver). t . I .... j' Another phase of South Island Maori life ia i dealt with by Mr A. W. Mauraia in Ms sketch' , , _ • "THE RETURN OF HIM! < TAMITAU," . ' I a lemmiscence of the early- whaling days," in which. some well-depictedi characters are^dsalt \ with. -This sketch has been SPECIALLY ILLUSTRATED BT :l MISS F. HODGKINS, a fact which adds very materially to it 3 '. attractiveness. " FEDORA " continues one of her exquisite Children's Tales, entitled "THE TRUTH TALISMAN." This has also been specially illustrated by Mies Hodgkins. "Dot and her Little Folks" is a household term among Witness readers, and a happy suggestion made by one of the juvenile correspondents that a group should be-gathered together for reproduction in the Christmas Annual is being carried into effect, and'thi3 vill unquestionably be' an interesting feature of the.Annual. The .Annual will, as usual, contain ths TEN PRIZE TALES, which will be again illustrated by sfiE3 Hodgkins; While THE CH3ONOLOG!CAL RECORD will be brought up to date m the same macaw as was done last year. Price - ONE SHILLING.