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Fifty Years Ago in New Zealand.

A Commemoration: A Jubilee Paper: A Retrospect: A Plain and True Story.

Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, October 17th, 1887.

By William Colenso, F.R.S., F.L.S., etc., Honorary Member of the Institute.

(Published under the auspices of the Board of Governors N.Z.I., and with the approval of the Council H.B.P.I.)

"Build me straight, O worthy Master!

Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel,

That shall laugh at all disaster.

And with wave and whirlwind wrestle."

Longfellow: "The Building of the Ship."

"Quæque ipsi vidi, et quorum fui."—Virg.

—"We cannot express any truth without involving ourselves in some degree of error or occasionally conveying an impression to others wholly erroneous."

—Prof. Jowett.

Printed by R. C. Harding Napier Hastings-Street.

1888