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Station Life in New Zealand

by Lady Barker

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  1. 1Contents — Preface
  2. 2Letter I — Two Months at Sea — Melbourne
  3. 3Letter II — Sight-seeing in Melbourne
  4. 4Letter III — On to New Zealand
  5. 5Letter IV — First Introduction to “Station Life”
  6. 6Letter V — A Pastoral Letter
  7. 7Letter VI — Society — Houses and Servants
  8. 8Letter VII — A Young Colonist — The Town and Its Neighbourhood
  9. 9Letter VIII — Pleasant Days at Ilam
  10. 10Letter IX — Death in Our New Home — New Zealand Children
  11. 11Letter X — Our Station Home
  12. 12Letter XI — Housekeeping, and Other Matters
  13. 13Letter XII — My First Expedition
  14. 14Letter XIII — Bachelor Hospitality — A Gale on Shore
  15. 15Letter XIV — A Christmas Picnic, and Other Doings
  16. 16Letter XV — Everyday Station Life
  17. 17Letter XVI — A Sailing Excursion on Lake Coleridge
  18. 18Letter XVII — My First and Last Experience of “Camping Out”
  19. 19Letter XVIII — A Journey “Down South”
  20. 20Letter XIX — A Christening Gathering — The Fate of Dick
  21. 21Letter XX — The New Zealand Snowstorm of 1867
  22. 22Letter XXI — Wild Cattle Hunting in the Kowai Bush
  23. 23Letter XXII — The Exceeding Joy of “Burning”
  24. 24Letter XXIII — Concerning a Great Flood
  25. 25Letter XXIV — My Only Fall From Horseback
  26. 26Letter XXV — How We Lost Our Horses and Had to Walk Home

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