STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND
By Lady Barker.
1883
CONTENTS
[ 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