Mountaineers and lovers of scenery should read Green’s “High Alps of New Zealand,” and T. Mackenzie’s papers on West Coast Exploration.  Mannering Fitzgerald and Harper are writers on the same topic.  Murray’s guide book will, of course, be the tourist’s main stay.  Delisle Hay’s Brighter Britain deals in lively fashion with a settler’s life in the bush north of Auckland and in the Thames goldfields.  Reid and Preshaw have written of the Westland gold-seekers; Pyke of the Otago diggings.  Domett’s “Ranolf and Amohia” is not only the solitary New Zealand poem which has achieved any sort of distinction, but is also an interesting picture of Maori life and character.

The Official Year-Book is a mass of well-arranged information, and the economic enquirer may be further referred to Cumin’s “Index of the Laws of New Zealand,” and to the numerous separate annual reports of the Government offices and departments.  Historical students must, of course, dive pretty deeply into the parliamentary debates and appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives, into the bulky reports and correspondence relating to New Zealand published in London by the Imperial authorities, and into the files of the larger newspapers The weekly newspapers of the Colony are especially well worth consulting.  For the rest, Collier’s New Zealand Bibliography (Wellington), and the library catalogues of the N.Z.  Parliament and of the Royal Colonial Institute, London, are the best lists of the books and pamphlets on New Zealand.

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TRIBAL BOUNDARIES OF THE MAORI]

[Illustration:  (map of) NEW ZEALAND]

INDEX

Aborigines’ Protection Society, 291.  Absentee Tax, 374.  Adoption of children, 381.  Advances to Settlers Act, 376.  Agriculture of the Maori, 42.  Akaroa and the French, 192. Alligator brig at Taranaki, 160.  Alps of New Zealand, 29.  Annexation, 170, 179, 180.  Annexation proposals, 157, 163-165.  Arawa and Tainui, 37.  Arbitration, Court of, 387, 389.  Architecture of the Maori, 44.  Artistic development, 405, 409.  Athletic development, 402, 408.  Atkinson, Sir Harry, 272, 274, 286, 329, 342-344, 346, 351.  Auckland chosen as capital, 193.

  Ballance, John, 341, 345, 361, 369-371, 377, 378. 
  Barrett the Whaler, 126, 142. 
  Bird-snaring, 43. 
  Borrowing, Prevalence of, 331. 
  Bowen, Charles, 340.
  Boyd massacre, 104, 105. 
  Browne, Governor, 260, 264.
    recalled, 275. 
  Busby as British Resident, 158-162. 
  Busby’s Federation Scheme, 161.

  Cameron, General, 278-283, 290, 292. 
  Cannibalism, 41. 
  Canterbury settled, 234. 
  Cargill, Captain, 232, 233. 
  Cattle introduced, 15. 
  Canoes of Polynesians, 35. 
  Characteristics of Maoris, 34, 53-59. 
  Characteristics of New Zealanders, 399-414.