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Otago Witness, Issue 2387, 30 November 1899, Page 48

A GREAT HISTORICAL PUBLICATION.!-^ To be Published the First Week of December. Proprietors of the Ofcago Daily Times and Witness wish to lay before the readers of both papers a / Synopsis of the Contents of their 1899 Christmas Annual, which will be published at an early date, due Sm» notice of which will be given The main feature will deal with the engrossingly interesting subject of From the ante-settlement days up to the middle of 1899. The letterpress, the compilation of which has entailed many months' research among old newspaper files and records of various descriptions, is from the pen of the favourite "Witness writer, And though fact, not fancy, 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. The narrative will take the form of a Chronological Record, relieved with Half-tone Illustrations from Photographs, Sketches, Drawings, and Pictures of the most notable wrecks and incidents connected with coastal navigation in New Zealand. Among these may be enumerated the following : —

* The unfortunate father recognised his own child." Wreck of the Tararua. From a drawing by Miss Hodgkins. The s.s. Mataura, wrecked in Magellan Straits. From a painting by Mr. D. O. Robertson. Officers of the s.s. Mataura. Castaways' Huts, schooner Invercauld, Auckland Isles. , Wairarapa on the Rocks after the Wreck. From a painting by Mr. E. B. Hayward. £For Twelve Hours' 1 Clung round the Mast with my Hair twisted round it, and so kept myself Afloat in the Boiling Water. " Picture by Miss Hodgkins. B.c. Otago wedged between Rocks at Chaslands Mistake. "A. Ship Dwelling House in Wellington — ship Inconstant, wrecked 1850. Victoria Post Oiiice, Port Ross. fefiip, England's Glory, wrecked near Bluff . in 1881. B:8. Kakanui. The Uses of Affliction : The Green Cabin at Port Chalmers. Ketch Amateur, Manawatu River. From a drawing by F.E.C. Brig Graftou, wrecked at Auckland Isles, January, 1864 S.s. Royal Charter. From a drawing by Miss F. Hodgkins. Crew of the Zulieka. A Lonely Grave on the Auckland Isles. The Jessie Readraan, wrecked December, 1893. Shipwrecked Sailors' Giave, Auckland Isles.

GROUP OF 16G CAPTAINS WHO HAVE TRADED TO NEW ZEALAND PORTS. ■ " FABIAN BELL " has given her Interesting Compilation the telling title of — "THE TOLL OF THE SEA," And explains that it is a complete record of the chief wrecks which have occurred in New Zealand waters from the year 1795 to the present date, together with the most interesting events connected with them. -A.ZEIT PICTURES. On ttie Way to the Fair The Dog, Stoaw in Our Barn The Battle of Gravelotte Childhood Two's Company, Three's None The Stag at Bay A Family Party Stolen Waters are Sweet The story of. "The Maori Leap," told in connection with the projecting wall of rock which attracts the eye on the Taieri River soon after leaving Henley for the Taieri Mouth, has had many exponents, and this is the subject adopted by Mr. F. A. Joseph in his sketch entitled The facts dealt with in the narrative have been carefully gleaned from the lips of one or two of the survivors of the older generation of Maoris at Henley, and the writer has dealt with his subject in an interesting and pleasing manner. This sketch contains a number of illustrations from photographs of the various points dealt with. Another phase of South Island- Maori life is dealt with by Mr. A. W. Maurais in his sketch — "THE f?ETUSr4 OF }ilWl TR^ITAU," A reminiscence of the early whaling day?, in which some well-depicted characters are dealt with. This sketch has been f^^ Specially Illustrated by Miss F, Hodgkins, & fact which adds very materially to its attractiveness. « FEDORA" contributes one of her exquisite Children's Tales, entitled '■ "THE TRUTH TALISMAN." j This has also been specially illustrated *by Miss Hodgking. "DOT AND HER LITTLE FOLKS" is a household term amongst 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 has been carried into effect, and this will unquestionably be an interesting feature of the Annual. ' The Annual will as usual contain the PRIZE TALES, "Which have again been illustrated by Miss Hodgkins, and will form a most attractive feature of the Production. They are entitled — The Lighthouse Keeper's Christmas £1 el en's Peril * A Christmas Finding Bishop Goldie's Son The Purser's , I*ove Story Utu Fate's Finger A Crucial Test A Misapplied Principle I-Glasses PRICE. OISTE SHILLING-