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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68

§ 8. Of other matters Printed in 1835

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§ 8. Of other matters Printed in 1835.

Having obtained a small supply of folio post writing paper from the Mission Store at Kerikeri (all there was!)—1000 copies of the Gospel of St. Luke, 67 pages, post 8vo., were printed and bound during this year. Also, some Proclamations and Circulars (or the British Resident, in both English and Maori, respecting the arrival and assumption of the Baron de Thierry and his party; and of the murderous night attempt on the life of the British Resident by a Maori, which, for some time, caused great sensation.* Some hundreds of old Maori books, (of the small 4to. edition printed at Sydney in 1833,) much worn, very dirty and ragged! were also strongly bound.—

* See Note C, Appendix.