Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the Otago Church and Settlement Discovery of New Zealand. - The Maori race. - Ear1y attempts at Coloni'sation. - Lawless Settlements - Origin of the New Zealand Land Company. - Capta1n Cargill. The Otago Association - The General Assembly commends the Otago Schema - The first minister of Otago. Despatch of the first Emigrant ships. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.