Elsewhere a tattered prayer-book was shown as the only relic of another.

One of the kind, Maning by name, who lived with a tribe on the beautiful inlet of Hokianga, will always be known as _the_ Pakeha Maori.

He was an Irish adventurer, possessed not only of uncommon courage and acuteness, but of real literary talent and a genial and charming humour.

He lived to see savagery replaced by colonization, and to become a judicial officer in the service of the Queen's Government.

Some of his reminiscences, embodied in a volume entitled _Old New Zealand_, still form the best book which the Colony has been able to produce.