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Title: The New Zealand Reader

Author: William Pember Reeves

Publication details: Samuel Costall, 1895, Wellington

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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The New Zealand Reader

Contents

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Contents.

^* Written expressly for this book.

^† Expressly for this work.

^‡ The note on page 62, relating to Shulitea, may require reconsideration.

	Page
The Voyage of Tasman in 1642-43—Introduction^* (B. Stocker)	1
The Voyage of Tasman in Tasman's Log (translated^† by B. Stocker)	6
Captain Cook (Walter Besant)	24
Animal Life (Edward Wakefield)	26
Geographical Sketch* (S. Percy Smith)	32
Rotomahana (J. A. Froude)	39
The Terraces (Alfred Domett)	46
Maori Arts in 1807 (John Savage)	48
Camping-out—Sunrise in the Hills (Lady Barker)	54
Visit of Nga-Puhi—Muru^‡ (Augustus Earle)	62
The Fireman (Charles Umbers, Dunedin)	68
Milford Sound (W. S. Green)	69
Muru and Tapu (F. E. Maning)	73
The Kea, or Mountain Parrot (T. H. Potts)	81
Tapu (F. E. Maning)	90
The Christmas Feast (W. Delisle Hay)	97
The Magician (Alfred Domett)	100
Memoir of Ruatara (J. L. Nicholas)	103
Fight between "Sounding Sea" And" "Angry Star" (Alfred Domett)	111
Travelling in the Kaipara in 1838 (W. R. Wade)	118
Settlement* (W. J. Habens)	126
The Lindis and Gabriel's Gully in 1861 (Vincent Pyke)	133
The Treaty of Waitangi (F. E. Maning)	140
Tribulations of a New Chum (D. Chamier)	145
The Flagstaff at Kororareka (F. E. Maning)	149
Bullock Journey in Canterbury (S. Butler)	155
History of Kororareka (W. Delisle Hay)	165
Heke at Te Kahika (F. E. Maning)	172
Death of Hauraki (F. E. Maning)	180
The Dunstan (Vincent Pyke)	185 page vi
The Taking of Ohaeawai, 1845 (F. E. Maning)	190
Ohinemuri Gold Rusk (W. Delisle Hay)	195
Visit to Taupo (A. Cox)	205
The Angel (Mary Colborne-Veel, Ckristckurch)	213
View of Mount Cook (S. Butler)	214
Hokitika ^† (Sir Charles Dilke)	217
Death of the Magician (Alfred Domett)	224
Dunedin to Christchurch in 1888 (Phil Robinson)	220
The Maori Spirit-Land (F. E. Maning)	233
Parewanui Pa (Sir Charles Dilke)	236
The Adventures of John Rutherford (G. L. Craik)	243
Doughtown Scrip (A. Forbes)	259
John Rutherford—Part II. (G. L. Craik)	264
Appendix.
The Seasons* (W. J. Habens)	272
Pronunciation of Maori Words^* (W. J. Habens)	277
Further Extracts from Tasman's Log	287

^† On page 221 "fifty or sixty" should certainly be "five or six."

^* Written expressly for this work.