The Journal of History

Vol. 3, No. 1 April, 1969

CONTENTS

x. j. CATANACH Some Continuities in Indian History in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 1

D. H. SIMMONS A New Zealand Myth: Kupe, Toi and the 'Fleet' 14

D. B. WATERSON The Matamata Estate, 1904-1959: Land Trans- fers and Subdivision in the 32

DIANNE LEWIS The Tin Trade in the Malay Peninsula during the Eighteenth Century 52

NOTES Marion du Fresne and the Young Pretender (John Dunmore); Jean-Claude Colin and the Foundation of the New Zealand Catholic Mission (K. J. Roach) 70, 74

REVIEWS Andrew Sharp, The Voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman (J. C. Beaglehole), 84; W. P. Morrell, The Gold Rushes (Philip May), 87; P. R. May, The West Coast Gold Rushes (Patrick O'Farrell), 89; Charles Heaphy, Narrative of a Residence in Various Parts of New Zealand (Judith Binney), 91; John Tregenza, Professor of Democracy: The Life of Charles Henry Pearson (F. B. Smith), 92; W. H. Pearson, Henry Lawson among the Maoris (M. P. K. Sorrenson), 93; J. de V. Allen, The Malayan Union (M. R. Stenson), 96.

CORRESPONDENCE 98

NEWS 100

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Vo. 3, No. 2 October, 1969

CONTENTS

j. c. BEAGLEHOLE Eighteenth Century Science and the Voyages of Discovery 107

DAVID MACKAY British Interest in the Southern Oceans, 1782-1794 124

JUDITH BINNEY Christianity and the Maoris to 1840: A Comment 143

JANE THOMSON Some Reasons for the Failure of the Roman Catholic Mission to the Maoris, 1838-1860 166 j. CHANDRAN , Gladstone and the Vice- royalty of India, 1893-1894 175

NOTES New Zealand, the Australian Commonwealth and 'Plain Nonsense' (Adrian Chan) 190

REVIEWS 196 The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. The Voyages of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780, ed. J. C. Beaglehole (David B. Quinn); Colin Jack-Hinton, The Search for the Islands of Solomon, 1567-1838 (Andrew Sharp); Ian Wards, The Shadow of the Land: A Study of British Policy and Racial Conflict in New Zealand, 1832-1852 (Judith Binney); John E. Kendle, The Colonial and Imperial Conferences, 1887-1911: A Study in Imperial Organization (Keith Sinclair); Trevor Reese, The History of the Royal Commonwealth Society (John E. Kendle); W. K. Hancock, Smuts II: The Fields of Force, 1919-1950 (Janet M. Robinson); T. Scarlett Epstein, Capitalism, Primitive and Mod- ern: Some Aspects of Tolai Economic Growth (A. Ploeg).

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