INTERESTING OLD MANUSCRIPT.
(Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 17. Mr. Tanner, M.H.R., has in his possession a small manuscript book which is the original journal kept by Colonel W. Wakefield on board the “Tori?” on her voyage to New Zealand in 1839, this being the preliminary expedition for the settlement of the North Island. The journal was given by Colonel Wakefield to a clerk in the Lands Office at Wellington. (Mr. D. Lewis). Of late years it has been in the possession of Mr S. Lewis, who gave it to Mr. Tanner.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2188, 18 September 1907, Page 2
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