A NOBLE GIFT.
'Under llio sanio roof with ilio museum in tho public library, whie'i is in il« nnlui'rt yory prcu'inr and viduablo. It would I'O invidi us (o say Ilinl Micro two volumes there so mre that, onn bcßnirlgos (hem lon distant, colony which mij'lit bo Hoi'verl us well by ordinary o!i i'ms us by Hi-iiivo and perhaps unremliMo mi ooiun'ns. Mut Mioh is tlio rco'iiuj wlticli ooinoH tip f'l.st lo tlio mind of n !«>vor of books wlion lio Inlfos cut. niul Immllos ftcnu of the treasures of Sir George Givy's a}\\, For if lias (o bo I old tlint a considcmblo portion of (lie Oipclowi) libi'iiry— or rnthor u siniill Fojv»ra!i> library, ilsoU' nntnbcvina about /5000 vf»!un»oH—- wns Riron lo Ibo Colony by I hat occonlri.f, but, mosfc popu'ur nnd niiiuiliuont Governor. Out why a MS. ol liiyy, or oV .Dan to should not, bo as scrvicciblii at Oipolown nn in sonif (Vinilmnni/s '•ounlry house in Rutland il, would l)i! hard In sny ; ami Iho iShnlic:)ponro folio of 1081) of ivluith Iho'library possoftics u fiopy, is no doubt ns oftnn liiolfod at, and as inuoh pettod and lovod »ind f.'lioiisli(>d in tlio on pi Lai of South Africa, as it U whon in (ho possession of a. 'British Dulio. There is also a wonderful qollorlion in t!t«so sholvns <^f tho nativo .litoi'alui'O of Afv-ica and Nciv IVrhnpH libra i'i;H f>l gvoaliH value harnbeon lofi by individuuls i;o Micir ooiinl ry, or to H|v.-.tril iivuituU'onM, but 1 do not tvMticrnher im-nhcr instanco of a man giving oway such a iroasuro i:i his life lima, and lenviim it wlioi-o in all lnimtm probability ho could nevor seo it ni^uiti.' — Ttollopo's 1 3outh Al'riL'fl.'
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Inangahua Times, Issue 94, 18 September 1878, Page 2
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284A NOBLE GIFT. Inangahua Times, Issue 94, 18 September 1878, Page 2
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