426 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



His work was for the natives, and he gave his whole energy 

 and skill to the performance of that work. As a printer few 

 have excelled him, and to-day his books will stand compari- 

 son with the best issued in the country. He played a part, 

 and he played it well, at an important period in the history 

 of his country. He ever strove to foster the welfare of the 

 natives, and no man can say that he ever used his vast know- 

 ledge of Maori customs for the advancement of his own in- 

 terests as against those of the natives. Of his ministerial 

 work nothing need be said, as it is outside the purview of 

 this paper. Suffice it to say that as a citizen, and as one of 

 the founders of this branch of the New Zealand Institute, his 

 name is held in honourable esteem, and among the historical 

 names that will pass down to posterity not the least one will 

 be the name of William Colenso, F.R.S., printer, scientist, 

 and philanthropist — the man who printed the first book in 

 New Zealand, who discovered more new plants than any one 

 else in New Zealand, and by his bequests has shown how 

 much he loved the outcast and the wanderer, whom he was 

 ever ready to help and succour. 



Art. LIT. — On Ancient Maori Belies from Canterbury, New 



Zealand. 



By W. W. Smith, F.E.S. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 27th February, 



1901.] 



Plate XVI. 



Having devoted much time during the last eighteen years to 

 visiting and exploring old encampments and rude dwellings 

 of the ancient Maori in the South Island, I would lay before 

 the members of the Philosophical Institute some observations 

 on stone implements and other ancient relics of the Te Rapa- 

 wai, Waitaha, and Ngatimamoe Tribes, now extinct. 



The numerous discoveries during the first fifty years of 

 English settlement in Canterbury of many valuable relics of 

 long ago have also furnished much valuable evidence of the 

 habits of these vanished peoples. Although remnants of 

 ancient pas, hunting encampments, and other rude habita- 

 tions of the ancient Maori occur in the South Island * from 



"Vide paper by Joshua Rutland "On the Ancient Pit-dwellings of 

 the Pelorus Sound District, South Island, New Zealand" (Journal of 

 the Polynesian Society, vol. vi., p. 77). 



