Books and Pamphlets. New Zealand Library.

The “New Zealand Journal,” 2nd October, 1841, pp. 243 and 244 (Sir F. R. Chapman's Collection), contains a list of books relating to Colonisation, Church Missionary propaganda, Cook's voyages, and adventures in New Zealand. An- page 368

Fig. 218.—Basin Reserve, 1877 (approx.). Showing the canal that flowed to the sea, via Cambridge Terrace. It was drained by prison labour. The artillery stables are on the hill to the left.

Fig. 219.—Basin Reserve, 1900. St. Mark's Church and School to the right of the picture. The locality of the Vice-Regal Residence is on the extreme right. The Molesworth Memorial, Dufferin Street, was then within the enclosure.

page 369 other issue of the same Journal, dated 1st February, 1845, gives an account of the Declaration of Independence, Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand Company's Titles and chronological events in New Zealand from 1814 to 1844. These journals may be seen at the Turnbull Library (Mr. J. C. Andersen). These lists, which are lengthy, may be recorded in a future volume, and only those books that the writer has referred to in this compilation are enumerated below:—

• 1839–40—Information relative to New Zealand, compiled for the use of Colonists by John Ward, Secretary to New Zealand Company.

• 1839–40—N.Z. Gazette and Wellington Spectator, the first number published in London, 1839, when the first Colony was on the point of departure. The second one issued from a tent on the beach at Pito-one, Port Nicholson, in April, 1840. (N.Z. Gazette and Britannia Spectator.)

• 1840—N.Z. Journal, edited by Mr. (Justice) H. S. Chapman.

• 1843—Wellington Almanac.

• 1843—Twelve Months in Wellington, by Lieut. Wood.

• 1843—New Zealand Tales, by “Koane,” Chapter I. (N.Z. Journal, 29th April, 1843.)

• 1844—Wellington Independent.

• 1847—Grimstone's Southern Settlements of New Zealand.

• 1847—Brees' Pictorial. New Zealand edition de Luxe.

• 1849—Cook Strait Almanac.

• 1852—Cook Strait Almanac. Bissextile, or Leap Year number.

• 1863—Bull's Wellington Almanac, first year of publication.

• 1865—Evening Post, first and other numbers.

• 1866—Wellington Directory (New Zealand).

• 1871—New Zealand Hymnal, compiled under authority of General Synod of the Branch of the United Church of England and Ireland, in New Zealand Sessions, 1862–1868, by A. G. Purchas.

• 1872—Te Rauparaha, Travers.

• 1875—Life and Recollections of a New Zealand Colonist, C. R. Carter.

• 1877 and 1883—Bishop's Guide to Wellington.

• 1879—Travels in New Zealand, J. C. Crawford, M.L.C.

• 1886—Manual of New Zealand, by J. Howard Wallace.

• 1886—Men of Mark in New Zealand, edited by Alfred Cox.

• 1889—Poems (The New World, etc.), Austral Mrs. J. G. (Lady) Wilson.

• 1890—Brett's Early History of New Zealand.

• 1892—Dictionary of Australasian Biography, P. Mennell, F.R.G.S.

• 1893—Seventy Years of Life in the Victorian Era.

• 1896—History of New Zealand, Alfred Saunders.

• 1897—Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Vol. I., McKee and Gamble.

• 1898—Colonization of New Zealand and Life of E. G. Wakefield, R. Garnett.

  

  Fig. 220.—Basin Reserve, 1928. Showing the new Pavilion, the Dixon Memorial Clock and the Mt. Cook Barracks (site of the proposed National War Memorial Art Gallery and Carillon) on the hill at the left.

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• 1900—Weekly Press, illustrated booklet (Wellington Number).

• 1900—New Zealand Free Lance.

• 1903–04—Evening Post Christmas Numbers (Old Wellington).

• 1907—N.Z. Mail, Special Wellington Number.

• 1908—Adventure in New Zealand, by E. J. Wakefield, New Edition.

• 1911—New Zealand, by the Hon. Sir Robert Stout and Mr. J. Logan Stout.

• 1911—An Old New Zealander, or Te Rauparaha, Lindsay Buick.

• 1912—Early Settlers Journal. Vol. I., No. 1.

• 1914—Historical Records of New Zealand, R. McNab, Vol. II.

• 1914—Early Rangitikei, by J. G. (Sir James) Wilson.

• 1919—Land of Tara, Elsdon Best.

• 1919—Year Book of the Wellington Harbour Board.

• 1920—Three Years with the New Zealanders (Wellington Batt.), by Lieut. Col. C. H. Weston, D.S.O.

• 1921—Old Redoubts, Block-houses, etc., Elsdon Best.

• 1924—Early Reclamations, etc., H. Baillie.

• 1925—Who's Who in New Zealand, by Dr. G. H. Scholefield.

• 1925—Territory of Lands, Wellington Diocesan Synod.

• 1925—The Veteran (South African War).

• 1925—Land Legislation and Settlements in New Zealand, W. R. Jourdain.

• 1926—The Polynesian Society; Its Genesis, Objects and Achievements, by Elsdon Best.

• 1927—N.Z. Wesleyan Jubilee Index, Rev. J. T. Pinfold, D.D.

• 1928—City Year Books, published by the City Council.

• 1928—Notes of a Naturalist in Port Nicholson (The Nelsonian, January and July, 1928), by H. A. R. Farquhar, Karori.