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NEW ZEALAND,
(THE LAND OF PROMISE)
AND ITS RESOURCES
this Essay the Council of the Society of Arts awarded the Silver Medal.
BY
WILLIAM STONES.
LONDON:
BAR[?] AND STREET, CLEMENT'S LANE, CITY, AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE OFFICE; P. S. KING, PARLIAMENT STREET, WESTMINSTER, OF WHOM ALL PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENTS RELATING TO NEW ZEALAND MAY BE OBTAINED.
Price 4d. Post Free, 5d.
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Also, by the same Author,
MY FIRST VOYAGE,
A Book for Youth.
Seventy-five Wood Engravings, Two Coloured Plates, Three Tinted Maps, and, a Highly Finished Steel Engraved Frontispiece, 7s. 6d.
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & Co.,
AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.
"A more pleasant book has not fallen of late into our hands."-- John Bull.
"It may be very justly considered a valuable little work, for more than juvenile voyagers between England and her antipodes."-- Nautical Magazine.
"Whether or not this little Book is the actual record of a traveller's 'First Voyage,' we neither know nor care; certain, however, is it, that it contains more varied and instructive information than is usually found in works of this sort. The chaplain reads to them an admirable sermon from the text, 'This great and wide sea;' the doctor lectures upon the philosophy of a sea voyage. Then there are descriptions of the countries seen upon the voyage, and especially of that to which they are bound, New Zealand, and its past and present condition, occupying four chapters of the seventeen contained in this small volume, the plan of which is as original, as the contents are varied and instructive."--Art Journal.
"This small book contains a great deal of geographical information. Its chapters on some of the most important of our colonial possessions are also excellent." --Morning Herald.
"The parts of the globe visited, are America and Australasia; the long intervals of navigation being varied by anecdotes, lectures, convivialities, and pleasant little tales."--Athenaeum.
"This is an interesting little Manual, detailing, not simply the incidents of a voyage, as experienced by landsmen crossing from one country to another, with the view of settling on the shores to which they are bound, but the impressions of an incipient sailor. The captain's story is particularly entertaining. To that portion of the youth of England who have a longing for a mariner's life, 'My First Voyage' will present special features of attraction, whilst to all, it will afford no slight amusement and some instruction. We heartily recommend it, not only for the descriptive matter it contains, but also for the excellence of its illustrations."--Daily Telegraph.
"It was a zealous and highly commendable notion of Mr. Stones, while others may have been idly lounging about the ship that bore him to New Zealand, to take a note of all objects that presented themselves, and explain their causes and uses in a familiar and attractive style."--Morning Post
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NEW ZEALAND.
(THE LAND OF PROMISE)
AND ITS RESOURCES.
BY
WILLIAM STONES.
To this Essay the Council of the Society of Arts Awarded the Silver Medal.
1858.
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LONDON:
VARTY, Printer, 27--15, Camomile Street, Bishopsgate, E. C.
