CAPTAIN JACKSON BARRYS NEW BOOK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 7, 9 January 1903, Page 4

CAPTAIN JACKSON BARRYS NEW BOOK.

The Auckland Slur, in a recent issue, says:-"Our pioneer friend, Captain Jackson Barry, a colonial of seventy-five years, is one 3 more in evidence canvassing for his new book, which ia now in the hends of the printer. The explain i; a wonder .it bis age, 84 yearsr. To stand the fatigue he does is surprising. The veteran bad one of bin legs broken two years ago at New Plymouth, wii'.n; eaviDg a lady from being run ovnr by a train, and was under t!u fori about sixteen months. Ho is, !;-.-wevo>'. | able to get about, ?nd b<<> si tar been very successful in getting s. The captain r in well c!a ; ra ' > be one of the founders of three gre»fc British colo- • nies, fer he was born ia Melbourne in 1825, and stood where Queen-street, Auckland, now i», in 1837, wh»tj it was a fern-clitd gully, with cot a of a whitu nun's <1 -voliintr or t whitman's face to be se»u, and ab-.ut 'hn time also was at I'vrt Jk'.v South Walts, where he to-.k cittle for the settlement established thoro. 11: wae also in New Plymouth whin Mr F. Carrington, who was hyiaf; off that town in 1842, h ad to take shelter in Bickie Barrett's whare, a-; he was j •topped and threatened by the E?,tiv?3,

Several Auckland and southern friends havo read the manuscript of his new boolr, and tbey declare it will be one of the most inter.- s'.ing vo'u'oes ever published iu Ihfl colonies. Photographs of no fowci' thau eighty leading men of the color.ies, including four Governors, and short au'o-biogr-tphies of oach, ar.d cf Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Z?a'and, will appear, and photographs! of the Hon. 11 J. S9ddon, Premier,' and bis Ministry, aud Premieis end members of eirlier Ministries." Tho publishers, "The Brafct Pub'i hing Ocuopany," of Auckland, intima'e that tho first (dition will be wdy for itsue early in J lijuaiy.