mo | The Official Guide to the 
of the weapons and fishing hooks used by the native 
Maories, now almost extinct in New Zealand, were 
presented by Mr. S. Culley, the City Accountant, who 
was in his young days an agent for the New Zealand 
Government. Elsewhere will be found a large collec- 
tion of fighting clubs, a ceremonial adze, and various 
weapons, etc., used by the natives of the South Sea 
Islands, given by Lord Hastings. 
In the Gallery at the head of the stairs there hang — 
on the wall cases casts of engraved stones and 
electrotype copies of ancient coins from the British 
Museum. The engraved stones bear many of the 
mythological figures and emblems of ancient Greece 
and Rome. ‘The coins and medals are those of Asia 
Minor, Phoenicia, Syria, and Egypt; of Northern and 
Central Greece, the Peloponnesus, etc.; of Italy, 
Sicily, the southern shores of the Mediterranean 
and Western Europe, at different representative 
periods. Behind the angle of the wall stands an 
ancient cannon, supposed to have been made not many — 
years after the invention of gunpowder. ‘This curious 
gun 1s supposed to have been cast in the fourteenth cen- 
tury. On a ledge, in the northern wall, stand some 
leaden jars that came from Langley Priory, near Lod- 
don, Norfolk. The large circular-hollowed stones form 
ithe upper portions of a series of querns or handmills 
for grinding corn. A fine old cauldron stands in an 
Opening in the wall. On the walls of the Keep is 
a somewhat varied collection of armour, representing — 
a period extending from the fifteenth to the seven- 
teenth century. ‘These are all well-mounted and so 
clearly labelled that they need no description. 
The cases below the armour, on the north wall, 
contain, the upper, a grand series of sepulchral urns 
and ancient stone ware, and the lower an interesting 
collection of antiquities, ranging from the rude Celt of 
