Price Five Shillings, by post Six Shillings aud Six- pence, handsomely bound in cloth, /~\LD NEW ZEALAND ; by a Pakeha-Maori. OPINIONS OF THE PKERS [FROM THE "lIAWKL'S BAY HERALD "] "The work befoie us is as unique in its subject as it is instructive and inteiesting in its det ills It presents a life-like picture of Maori hfo aud charactei in days of old — written by one whose experience among the nativ es and great powers of observation have eminently qualified him for the task A work of tins nature is the more valuable, inasmuch as the •ceues it so racily and humorously depicts are no longer to be witnessed— young New Zealand h*vmg »adly degenerated in many respects — and only live in the memones of a compara- tively few early tettlers and missionaries " [FKOM THE "OTAOO DAIIY TIMES'] "Tins i» a most entertaining, and at the same time a very remarkable book Written by a man who has passed the best years of his hfo among the native inhabitants of New Zealand, it gives an extraordinary clear idea of the state of society in ihe good old times, which the Pakeha-Maori in the true laudator tempons acti pathetically aments as gone, never to return The reader who expects to Hilda regulii tale will be disap- pointed, but we aie greatly mistaken if he will not find the book infinitely more amusing and fascinating than nine hundred and ninety nine cut of a thousand three-volume novels, or even than the spiciest of the sensation stories of the 'Bailway Library' school of fast literature " [FHOSI THE " CANTERBURY PRESS "] " 'Old New Zealand' is a work which, had it issued with the name of a fashionable London publisher, would have been one of the most successful books of the season "



SPEED the PLOUGH, or Colonial and New Zealand Faimei's Guide, puce o«. — To be had of Mr. WiW LE, and othei Bookselleis.
