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Otago Witness, Issue 3958, 21 January 1930, Page 21

NOW READY. NOW READY. A GREAT COLONISER: The Rev. Dr. THOMAS BURNS Pioneer Minister of Otago, New Zealand, and nephew of the poet Robert Eurns. By the Rev. Dr. E. N. Merrington, Master of Knox College, Dunedin. In this book the author traces the much to re-create the remarkable personality interesting tfe-story of the Rev. Dr Thomas of a Presbyterian minister to whom a noble Burns. It is an important contribution to column stands in the heart of Dunedin but the history of colonisation which has been whose real monument might almost be’ said called the romance of the nineteenth to be the churches, schools, colleges, and century. The letters or Burns to Cargill, even the university of the province which written during the four years which followed he did so much to establish, the Scottish Disruption, now published for the first time, reveal the apparently insur- It is well for students of Scottish mountable obstacles which confronted the history and future historians of the Empire leaders of the proposed Scottish enterprise, to note l^at > f rom Mossgiel, there emanated and the spirit in which the difficulties were not on^y s °ngs which have delighted the finally overcome. world, and have knit together Scotchmen T . k k J -v a. r > the world over - but also an earnest ’ H Yu L Voya§ * of , the Christian minister, with statesmanlike gifts, pioneers, the hardships of the early days, who played a most important part in exhe successful establishment of the church. tending and strengthening our Empire in a the school the town of Dunedin, and the far-away part of the globe.’’ The Rev Dr province of Otago. This biography will do Kirkwood Hewat, M.A., F.S.A. (Scot.). ' Now ready (with illustrations). Price, 7/6 (postage 4d extra). Address orders to Manager Otago Daily Times and Witness Co., P.O. Box 181, Dunedin.