Colonial Experiences ; Or, Incidents and Reminiscences of Thirty-four Years in New ZealandChapman & Hall, 1877 - 288 pagine Account of a Nelson settler in 1843, including a description of the New Zealand Company's relief works at Waimea East, breaking in land at Riwaka, boat building, the hazards of navigation in Cook Strait and the Marlborough Sounds and Pratt's first store in Lyttelton in advance of the Canterbury settlers. |
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Pagina 233 - These pioneers in New Zealand of the Australian squatters, finding the Canterbury plains eminently adapted for stock-grazing, and the climate of New Zealand promising an immunity from those periodic visitations of floods and droughts, which were frequently so destructive to stock in Australia, may be supposed to have summed up the prospective advantages somewhat in this wise—New and fertile pastures, more lambs, more wool, fewer casualties, and for some, perhaps many years, a good market for stock,...
Pagina 225 - market gardener," whose success in the vegetable line had enabled him to don a blue frock coat, black cloth trousers, Wellington boots, and a tall hat, found himself at a disadvantage as compared with his brethren in having no convenient receptacle for his share of the flour and sugar. He surveyed his hat, but replaced it on his head, evidently considering it unequal to the emergency, unless he chose to sacrifice a portion of the allotted quantity, when a happy thought struck him.
Pagina 233 - ... at a price computed according to the number of sheep, valuing the latter at from fourpence to sixpence per head; and this aggregate sum included station buildings, boiling-down establishments, and all the appurtenances of a first-class station.
Pagina 234 - ... prospective advantages somewhat in this wise : New and fertile pastures, more lambs, more wool, fewer casualties, and for some, perhaps many years, a good market for stock, dispensing with the boiling-down process. Favourable reports soon found their way into the Port Philip (Victoria) and New South Wales papers, particularly one written by Mr. Joseph Hawdon, a gentleman upon whose judgment and experience the greatest confidence was placed, and in consequence many of the squatters joined in the...
Pagina 10 - ... probably built by Maories, as it closely resembled the houses in their pahs, and being situate where their canoes could approach very near, had evidently been a place of frequent resort by them.