Buick, 24 Buller River, 160, 233 Bush-fire, 105 lawyer, 99 settler, 40 Butler, Samuel, 162, 163 Butter, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 factories, 11 Caddell, James, 196, 197 Campbell Island, 227, 228, 229 Canoe, 76, 77 Cape Maria Van Diemen, 133, 204 Carrick, Mr., 24 Chapman, Mr. Justice, 200, 206 Charles Edward, the young Pretender, 228 Chatham Island lily, 222 Chatham Islands, the, 190, 204, 211, 212, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221 Cheese, 12, 13, 14, 17 Chief towns, 18 Christchurch, 28, 132, 162, 232, 233 Clematis, 37, 94, 95 Climate, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 14, 35, 36, 38, 52, 165, 170, 187, 222 Clutha River, 202 Cockayne, Dr., 24, 191 Colenso, 95, 97 Contrasts, 6 Cook, Captain, 168, 180, 195 Coprosma, 100 Country labourers, 50 life, 28, 29, 32, 35, 39 life tendencies, 46 Cowan, Mr. James, 24, 130 Craddock, Colonel, 53 Cricket, 72, 73 Decentralised colony, 19 Deer-stalking, 61 Department of Public Health, 44 Disappointment Island, 204, 226, 227 Domett, 21, 138, 155 Douglas glacier, 176 Drummond, Mr. James, 24 _Dundonald_, the barque, 225 Dunedin, 28 Dusky Sound, 180, 186 Sound in 1771, 195 Eels, 65, 213, 214 Egmont, Mount, 105, 125, 165, 234 _Elingamite_, 211 English trees and flowers, 2 Eruption of Tarawera, 139, 144 Factories, 26 Factory hands, 26 Fairies, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83 Fairy-tales, 80 Farm labourers, 14, 51 Farmers, 8, 13, 17, 29, 30, 31, 46, 47, 50, 106 Farming, 32 Fern, 55, 86 Ferns, 38, 85, 116, 119 Fiords, 179 Fire, 77, 102, 106, 107, 108, 110, 125, 183 Fish, 65 Fishing, 49 Fitzgerald, E. A., 171, 172, 173 Flax, 12, 13, 37, 86, 95, 99, 202, 213 Flightless birds, 184, 186, 188 duck, 184, 204 Football, 71, 72 Forests, 104, 105 Freeholders, 48 Freezing, 13 factory, 15 Frozen beef, 17 mutton, 11 Fuchsias, 94 Garden, 34, 49, 107 Gardening, 36, 85 _General Gates_, the, 197 _General Grant_, the, 224, 225 Gentians, 94, 223 Gerard, Mr. George, 61 Geyser, 116, 119, 139, 148, 150, 151, 152, 164 Goats, 52, 53, 54, 104, 191, 223 Godwits, 62, 192 Gold-mining, 13 _Grafton_, the, 224 Grass, 2, 7, 41, 72, 102, 106, 107, 108, 120, 121, 124, 125, 163, 222, 226 Green, Mr., 166, 168, 171, 175 Green’s climb, Mr., 169 Greenstone, 200 Grey, Sir George, 80, 129, 155 Grey duck, 62, 64 kiwi, 184 Hamilton, A., 24 Hardie, Mr. Keir, 27 Harewood, 215 Hauraki Gulf, 74, 186, 192 Hau-roto, 160, 177, 179 Hawke’s Bay, 104, 232 Hazard, Mr., 145 Healing waters, 154 Health Department, 45 Hemp, 12, 13 Henry, Mr. Richard, 187, 188, 189 High Alps, 57 Hinemoa, 155 Hochstetter, 136, 163 ice-fall, 176 Hongi, 156, 157, 158 Hooker glacier, 172, 174, 176 Hori Haupapa, 157 Horo-Horo, 126 Horses, 68, 69, 71 Hotels, 20 Hot Lakes, 134, 234, 235 Lakes District, 118 House-sparrow, 60 Howitt, Mr. Charlton, 193 Huka, 123 Hutton, 24 Inter-colonial trade, 10 Island sanctuaries, 186 _Jean Bart_, the, 218, 219 _Journal of the Polynesian Society_, 24, 219 Kahikatea, 101