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.