NOT WITHOUT VALUE

Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 7

NOT WITHOUT VALUE

EARLY HEW ZEALAND NEWSPAPERS Old New Zealand newspapers are apparently not without value if . one may judge by a recent London catalogue offering such publications for sale. In this is listed a set of this first four volumes 'of the ‘ Lyttelton' Times,' dating from January 11, 1851,'t0 December 13, 1854 (ten numbers missing). Tho price asked for these volumes, originally the property of Mr J. R. Godlcy, the first resident magistrate at Lyttelton, is no less than £BO. The ‘Lyttelton Times’ was “ designed not only to convey English, loreign, and local intelligence to the inhabitants of Canterbury, hut also to acquaint the English public with ..the progress of the colony.” It was first of all edited and issued weekly by JE. Fitzgerald and others, becoming by July, 1854, a bi-weekly. 1 The first nnrabe--* was published twenty-four days after the arrival of the. first settlers, and gives an account of the voyages of the four ships bringing the settlers and of tho rapid growth and progress of the settlement. For ,a smaller sum, six guineas to be precise, an incomplete set of the ‘ Auckland Weekly News ’ of 1804 and 1865 can bo purchased. . This contains full reports of the Alaori War, as well as accounts of -the American Civil liar.