NEW AUTHOR.
MEETB AVITH GRATIFYING SUCCESS.
(Special to “Times.”) WELLINGTON, April 14. Air Dngald (Ferguson has received word by the last mail that his historical novel “Tho King’s Friend” is selling well at Home. The first edit.on of two thousand was sold out some time ago and of a second edition of two thousand, only some three hundred odd remained when the ma : i left. The- publisher lias decided to bring out a third edition. Mr Ferguson has also received a letter Horn Alessrs Sands and Co., of Edinburgh and London, who have agreed to bring out another edition of his wellknown book “Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand.” This will bo tbe fourth, edition of tlio work. AVhiie travelling on tho railway from Waipawa to Hastings, Mr Ferguson had recently the misfortune to lose a case containing a. hundred copies of “The King’s Friend” which ho had consigned in tho ordinary way. O n his arrival at Hastings, 26 miles distant, there was no sign of the books nor can they be traced 1 at any of the stations along the line nor at either Hastings or AVaipawa, though both the railway officials and the police have made inquiries regarding them.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2166, 15 April 1908, Page 4
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203NEW AUTHOR. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2166, 15 April 1908, Page 4
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