* Curiously enough, only a few days ago, in looking over tho library of my lately deceased friend, Mr. Edward Catchpool (who for a lon(? time was the Collector of Customs at this port, and who was alsoono of tho first printers in Wellington, who, in i*" ' days, prlntod a newspaper there—which aeoi been wholly overlooked by Judge Chapman,. - - .... an interesting book, entitled "Tho British Colonii «"i of New Zealand," and published for the Ni land Association in 1837—which I had never j seen. At page 200 of that work is an pxti from ft letter of mine, written from Now March, 1835. in which I say,—" I have bt in printing 2000 copies of a book of 16 pages, containinn St. Paul's Epistles to tho Ephesians and Philippians. A printer in London cannot form a correct idea of tho disadvantages under which I labored In getting this up and sending it out. In """■»™»»™ of not having a single load." (which, paper and several other absol"'" 1 "' "•"' l had been left behind) "I w paper, and spaces" placed flat, " for blank linei,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4311, 14 January 1875, Page 3
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181Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4311, 14 January 1875, Page 3
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