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Preface.

In the present volume are to be found extracts from papers of great value by the following authors “Ue-nuku,” “Rongo-marae-roa,” “Tu-mata-uenga,” “Pou-ranga-hua,” “Kahu-kura,” “Rangi-whakaoma,” “Hau-iti,” “Rua-taupare,” “Tuere and Tangi-haere,” “Pukoro-au-ahi,” and “Hotu-ngakau,” by W. Colenso, Esq., F.L.S. (read before the New Zealand Institute).

“Rongo-i-tua,” “Tama-tea-pokai-whenua,” “Te-rapu-wai,” “Kahui-tipua,” “Wai-taha,” “Poua-kai,” “Nga-ti-mamoe,” “Nga-i-tara,” and “Nga-i-tahu,” read before the New Zealand Institute; and “Pa o Nga-tokoono,” “Para-kaka-riki,” “Tu-te-kawa,” “Last Migration from Ha-taitai,” “Wha-naunga-puraho-nui,” “Discovery of Greenstone,” “Raid on the South,” “Tama-i-hara-nui,” “Kai-huanga,” “Raid on Panau,” and “Capture of Tama-i-hara-nui,” from “Stories of Banks Penin-sula;” by the Rev. J. W. Stack.

“Tama-tea,” “Kahu-ngunu,” “Rongo-i-tua,” “Kahui-tipua,” “Tara-ki-uta and Tara-ki-tai,” and “Iwi-ka-tere,” by S. Locke, Esq., M.H.R. (also read by him before the New Zealand Institute).

The portion headed “Nga-ti-mamoe and South Island page iv History,” commencing on page 286, is derived from “Native Affairs, South Island,” by A. Mackay, Esq., Native Commissioner; and that beginning on page 307 is from a valuable paper, “Nga-ti-mamoe,” by James Mackay, Esq., Native Commis-sioner.

That entitled “Rangi-tama at Hataitai” is de-rived from a paper by Te Manihera, translated by Joseph Freeth, Esq., Interpreter and Clerk to the Resident Magistrate's Court, Masterton, and published in Vol. V. of “Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute,” page 398.