Station Life in New Zealand
by Barker
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Chapters (28)
- STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND
- 1883
- Preface.
- Letter I: Two months at sea—Melbourne.
- Letter II: Sight-seeing in Melbourne.
- Letter III: On to New Zealand.
- Letter IV: First introduction to "Station life."
- Letter V: A pastoral letter.
- Letter VI: Society.—houses and servants.
- Letter VII: A young colonist.—the town and its neighbourhood.
- Letter VIII: Pleasant days at Ilam.
- Letter IX: Death in our new home—New Zealand children.
- Letter X: Our station home.
- Letter XI: Housekeeping, and other matters.
- Letter XII: My first expedition.
- Letter XIII: Bachelor hospitality.—a gale on shore.
- Letter XIV: A Christmas picnic, and other doings.
- Letter XV: Everyday station life.
- Letter XVI: A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge.
- Letter XVII: My first and last experience of "camping out."
- Letter XVIII: A journey "down south."
- Letter XIX: A Christening gathering.—the fate of Dick.
- Letter XX: the New Zealand snowstorm of 1867.
- Letter XXI: Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai Bush.
- Letter XXII: The exceeding joy of "burning."
- Letter XXIII: Concerning a great flood.
- Letter XXIV: My only fall from horseback.
- Letter XXV: How We lost our horses and had to walk home.
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