The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . readily obtainedin the latest and most official form. Not to enumerate other publications, the Official Handbook of New-Zealand is an exhaustive treatise of this nature. 104 THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. by whicli it shall be guidcil. lu the town of Christehurch there is not nearly sostron a Church bias as may be seen in any cathedral town in England, and there aresi-iis that in a few years the very recollection of the province having originally been intendedas on
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . readily obtainedin the latest and most official form. Not to enumerate other publications, the Official Handbook of New-Zealand is an exhaustive treatise of this nature. 104 THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. by whicli it shall be guidcil. lu the town of Christehurch there is not nearly sostron a Church bias as may be seen in any cathedral town in England, and there aresi-iis that in a few years the very recollection of the province having originally been intendedas one of a single denomination will be lost to the colonists themselves, unless, indeed,the foundations of a cathedral which remains unbuilt should perpetuate the memory ofa vani^^hed enthusiasm. The area of the province is 8,(593,000 acres, of which 2,500,000constitute a great plain, sloping down to the sea. There are also other tracts capable ofcultivation, though a considerable portion of the country is hilly, the hills—as in the Banks,Peninsula—being mostly the remains of extinct volcanoes. Christehurch, the capital of the. THE TVI OK PAESON BIRD (Prosthoimclfra Novce Zcatandiic) OF NEW province, is built on a plain about five miles from the sea, on the banks of the littleriver Avon. The Port is Lyttelton, connected with Christehurch by a railway, whichruns part of the way through a tunnel under the hills, this tunnel—made at the cost of£200,000—being rightly considered both by the New Zealanders and their visitors as anextraordinary prnof of the energy of the colonists. Christehurch Mr. Trollope describesas not so handsome a town as Dunedin—indeed, not a handsome town either positivelyor comparatively—but comfortable and thoroughly English, as the New Zealand citiesmore than those of any other colony are. Most of the houses and churches are builtof wood, l)ut as usually happens in the wooden constructed colonial towns, the banksare fine stone buildings
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