OLD TAHITIAN BOOK
LONDON, August 12. A book in the Tahitian language, translated by missionaries, was sold at auction for £l7 ss. It is believed that the commonwealth Government was the purchaser. The price would have beer, greater but that a second copy of the book had been discovered in the British Museum, where is also a copy of the Standing Orders of the Sydney Settlement printed in 1802. Research indicates that the first proclama tiou was printed m Australia in 1795. [The Tahitian book was discovered by Hodgson’s, book dealers, and it was at first believed to bo a copy of the first hook printed in Australia. It boro the imprint; “G. Howe. Sydney, 1814.” It is an epitome of Christ’s teachings, in the Tahi-' tian language. When the missionaries _ escaped to Sydney in 1812 from the cannibal Tahitians, they apre'pared a book with which they returned when the islanders-were'tran-quil.]
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Otago Witness, Issue 3205, 18 August 1915, Page 62
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