- 1985 edition. RARE 124 pages
- Publisher. Christchurch, 1985
- Softcover. Format B wide. Photos, maps, indexed
- Condition. Good. A little damage to a small part of the spine.
William Hough, Pioneer Preacher and Prospector
William Hough, who died in 1885, was a seeker and crusader. Pledging himself to help lead a primitive Pacific Island race to the Christian God, He forsook home and family in Yorkshire and uprooted wife and family to set sail in 1842 to New Zealand. Here he discovered an affinity with the Maori people and a facility with their language.
The damp climate and extreme privations of bush life in South Taranaki almost killed him with chronic bronchitis, but reviving in the healthier sunshine of Nelson, he found new avenues of usefulness among the white settlers. He kept up his Methodist preaching; and his exploring and his gold-hunting crusades were only the most strenuous of his many endeavours which kept him striving until 1885.
Behind the story of Hough (pronounced 'Howe') are telling glimpses into other colonist's lives, other missionaries' struggles, and interdenomonational tensions. The book also ventilates the passionate controversy behind the labours of the prospectors in Golden Bay's brief goldrush of the 1850s.
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