arger
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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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.
Chatham Islands Escape, 299.
Cheap Money Scheme, 396.
Chinese element, 398.
Christchurch founded, 235.
Church endowment in the South, 247.
Church Missionary Society, 114, 119, 172.
Church statistics, 400.
Chute, General, 292.
Civilization and the Maori, 55, 59.
Clean Shirt Ministry, 253.
Cliff scenery, 25, 26.
Climate, 11.
Clutha and Prohibition, 365.
Colenso's New Testament, 120.
Colonising companies, 157.
Commissioners and New Zealand Company, 197.
Conciliation Boards, 386, 387-390.
Confiscation of native land, 289.
Continuous ministry, 335, 336.
Contractors, 382.
Contrasts in scenery, 13.
Conveyance of land, 115.
Convicts and Maori, 98.
Coal Mines Act, 391.
Cook, Captain, 79-81.
Co-operative Contract System, 393.
Coromandel goldfields, 318.
Costume of the Maori, 45.
Creation of man,