Station Life in New Zealand (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Two months at sea. Melbourne; 2. Sight-seeing in Melbourne; 3. On to New Zealand; 4. First introduction to 'station life'; 5. A pastoral letter; 6. Society. Houses and servants; 7. A young colonist. The town and its neighbourhood; 8. Pleasant days at Ilam; 9. Death in our new home. New Zealand children; 10. Our station home; 11. Housekeeping, and other matters; 12. My first expedition; 13. Bachelor hospitality. A gale on shore; 14. A Christmas picnic, and other doings; 15. Everyday station life; 16. A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge; 17. My first and last experience of 'camping out'; 18. A journey 'down south'; 19. A christening gathering. The fate of Dick; 20. The New Zealand snow-storm of 1867; 21. Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai bush; 22. The exceeding joy of 'burning'; 23. Concerning a great flood; 24. How we lost our horses and had to walk home.