Station Life in New Zealand
by Lady Barker
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About this eBook
- Author
- Barker, Lady (Mary Anne), 1831-1911
- Credits
- Produced by P. J. Riddick, and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- S: Agriculture
- Subject
- New Zealand -- Social life and customs
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 6104
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6104
- Release Date
- July 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND
- 2.By Lady Barker. — 1883
- 3.Preface.
- 4.Letter I: Two months at sea—Melbourne.
- 5.Letter II: Sight-seeing in Melbourne.
- 6.Letter III: On to New Zealand.
- 7.Letter IV: First introduction to "Station life."
- 8.Letter V: A pastoral letter.
- 9.Letter VI: Society.—houses and servants.
- 10.Letter VII: A young colonist.—the town and its neighbourhood.
- 11.Letter VIII: Pleasant days at Ilam.
- 12.Letter IX: Death in our new home—New Zealand children.
- 13.Letter X: Our station home.
- 14.Letter XI: Housekeeping, and other matters.
- 15.Letter XII: My first expedition.
- 16.Letter XIII: Bachelor hospitality.—a gale on shore.
- 17.Letter XIV: A Christmas picnic, and other doings.
- 18.Letter XV: Everyday station life.
- 19.Letter XVI: A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge.
- 20.Letter XVII: My first and last experience of "camping out."
- 21.Letter XVIII: A journey "down south."
- 22.Letter XIX: A Christening gathering.—the fate of Dick.
- 23.Letter XX: the New Zealand snowstorm of 1867.
- 24.Letter XXI: Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai Bush.
- 25.Letter XXII: The exceeding joy of "burning."
- 26.Letter XXIII: Concerning a great flood.
- 27.Letter XXIV: My only fall from horseback.
- 28.Letter XXV: How We lost our horses and had to walk home.
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