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Otago Witness, Issue 2372, 17 August 1899, Page 46

. A GREAT HISTORICAL PUBLICATION. OtE&O PkWiN T\MES .... TO BE PUBLISHED IN TIME FOR DEIIVERY EVERYWHERE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. The Propietors of the Otago Daily Times and Witness ivifih to lay before the readers of both papers a Synopsis of the Contents of their 1899 CHRISTMAS l AN!NUAL, Tvhich will be published at a sufficiently early date to enable its being mailed to the Old Country in time for receipt before Christmas. The main feature "will deal with the Engrossingly interesting subject of WRECKS OF THE COLONY From the ante-settlement days up to the middle of 1899. The ktterpress, the compilation of which has entailed many months' research among old newspaper files and records of various descriptions, is from the pen of the favorite Witness writer, FABIAN IB^XalL., and though fact, not fancj , has been the prevailing note of the compilation throughout, the narrative is written in a manner which cannot fail to interest the readers from beginning to end. It is at this early stage scarcely possible to give a full list of the photogravures which will illustrate the story of marine disaster on our rugged coast-line, but they will be worthy cf the subject. The following incomplete enumeration will give readers an idea of the pictorial contents of this section of our coming Christmas Annual : « The Father recognises his own Child." From OTHER FEATURES . • • special drawing by Miss F. Hodgkins. *For hours I clung to the spar with my hair o f ffiie Publication. twisted round it." From special drawing by Miss Hodgkins. . . The story of " The Maori Leap," told in T taS a oy Mi^H^Sn, —«- ««, the projecting wall of rock " Th«y rigged a Flag on the Highest Point." the eye on the Taieri Eiver soon From a drawing by F. E. C. after leaving Henley for the Taieri Mouth, " Abandonment." From a drawing by F. E. has had many exponents, and this is the subC. ject adopted by Mr F. A. Joseph in hi 3 sketch " Steam to the Rescue." From a drawing by entitled F. E. C. " Allegro and Ammonier, two vahiable horses "TE RERENGA O TU HOKAlswimming through the surf." From a draw- AxrriT » ing by F. E. C. BANOrI. 10 Tomb3lone -"- Fi6Urehead Derry The facts dealt with in the narrative have « The^neral Grant's Castaways." An in- bee f ™?" U y S leaned f ~ m "P» of ° ne teresting group of passengers and crew clad or two of the survivors of the older generation in their sealskins. of Maoris at Henley, and the writer has dealt B.S. Pelhain, wrecked at the Bluff. with his subject in an interesting and pleasing S.S. Otago, wrecked at Chasland's Mistake, manner. This sketch contains a number of " Relics of the past " ; present condition illustrations from photographs of the various of the wreck. points dealt with, including one of Korako " Tararua Acre." Matene, the Maori Leap, John Bull's Head, City of Dunedin, wrecked in Cook Strait, May jj; ova jjill, besides views near Governor's 20, 1865. Chimney (Taieri River). Wreck of the s.s. Otago. rhe Fifeshire saving Crew of the Patricia. , " British pluck." ■Wreck of the s.s. Mataura. Another phase of South Island Maori life is Officers of the Mataura. dealt with by Mr A. W. Maurais in his .Wreck of the s.s. Wairarapa. sketch The Wairarapa's Stewardesses. ____ „ _ xrniin The Green Cabin at Port Chalmers. JLliU* RESI UItJN OJJ HIMI The Cospatrick. rp * T^TTm A TT " ■Wreck of tho s.s. Tararua. lAflll ■«.«-', The Jessie Readman. a rem i n iscence of the early whaling days, in Portrait of Captain Matthew Gibson (Jessie which some we ]i.d ep icted characters are dealt Headman). with Thfs sketch has been iWreck of the a.s. Taranaki. The s.s. Kakanui. SPECIALLY ILLUSTRATED BY Stranded. Wreck of the s.s. Elginshire. MISS F. HODGKINS, .Wreck of the s.s. Taiaroa. a fact which adds materially to its attracCaptain Garrard. tiveness. Boiler of the s.s. Otago; relic of the past. Benvenue and City of Perth, Timaiu beach, ■• • 1882. Ship Inconstant, wrecked on Te Aro beach, August 10, 1850 (John Plimmer, father of I FEDORA " continues one of her exquisite Wellington, standing in foreground). | Children's Tales, entitled Ship Pleione, ashore on "Waikanae beach, March 19, 1888 < C J^ JRUTH TALISMAN." Ocean Mail ashore and s.s. Patea steaming out Patea River Heads, February 11, 1882. This haß also been specially ili u6tra ted by Miss Stranding of the John Gamble at Timaru, May TT^^d-.^c. 1899. noagkjns. Fairy Queen ashore at Timaru, August, 1873. »-• •, Wreck of the City of Cashmere. Wreck of the Grafton. Lonely Grave, Auckland Isles. Dot and her Little Folks " is a household Dwelling-places of Shipwrecked Crews. term amon g at Witness readers, and a happy Shipwrecked Sailor's Grave. suggestion made by one of the juvenile corFigurehead Derry Castle respondents, that a group should be gathered Derry Castle Hut, Enderby Island. together for reproduction in the Christmas Victoria Post Office, Port Ross. " Annual 18 being carried into effect, and this S.B. Wanaka, wrecked at Puketapu Reef, New ?. lU be an interesting feature of Plymouth. the Annual. TJ.S.S. Suva, wrecked near entrance to West- i... ....... port Harbour. .Wreck of the Surat at False Islet, Catlin's j ■R^er. The Annual will, as usual, contain the She breaking up of the s.s. Tekapo. <*roup of 14 Wellington Hulks. TEW PRIZE TALES. Etc., Etc., Etc. which will be again illustrated by Miss ...-...-.'..i Hodgkins; while teSSS.Sa 1 - I"™'1 "™'- THE CHRQHOLO6IGAL RECORD "THETOLL OF THE SEA " «- *-"°' l>^ aa ' c i " ib "* mm ' mm ™ and explains that it is a complete record of lja the chief wrecks which have occurred in New Zealand waters from the year 1795 to the present date, together with the most interesting t* ■ _ riTTTTT TIT/i events connected with them. irrUQe - ONE SHILLINIT'