A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . s. The Exhibition is extraordinarily good for acountry so new, and a great credit to the wide-awakeenergy of New Zealand. We had one day to spend here,and could only take a birds-eye view of the great show,but were much pleased with what we saw of it; TheFernery particularly we thought the best exhibit we hadever seen of that kind ; the location and grounds are veryfine, and present a beautiful scene. After spending one day at Christ Church and theFair, we left that night by the steamer Maheno forDuNEDiN. where we landed early the next morning. Thisis on
A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . s. The Exhibition is extraordinarily good for acountry so new, and a great credit to the wide-awakeenergy of New Zealand. We had one day to spend here,and could only take a birds-eye view of the great show,but were much pleased with what we saw of it; TheFernery particularly we thought the best exhibit we hadever seen of that kind ; the location and grounds are veryfine, and present a beautiful scene. After spending one day at Christ Church and theFair, we left that night by the steamer Maheno forDuNEDiN. where we landed early the next morning. Thisis one of the big four towns of New Zealand, and isalso a beautiful growing city, located on a fine littleharbor. Our steamer, which is the largest of the UnionLine, comes alongside the wharf, so that her shippingfacilities are good, though her harbor is cjuite small. Theyhave a line of electric street cars, as good as the best inNew Zealand, also fine shipping houses and good population is mostly Scotch, and their churches, or 55. many of them, are Presbyterian, although they have a fewof other denominations. They have fine large retail storesand draw trade from a long distance, as they are thelargest town of the south part of the Southern , they have a public park, or Botanical Gardens, asthey call it, which would do credit to any city of 150,000population in the United States. Here, also, the mostbeautiful homes, with fine landscape gardens, are the rule,and when we learn that all the trees, shrubbery and hedgesare ever-gieen and the same all the year around, we canimagine what a beautiful appearance they always have. Dunedin is said to be the most wealthy city in NewZealand, and is in a prosperous condition at this time. Aswe are making a flying trip, we only spent one day here,and the next day, which was Sunday, at Port Chalmers, asmall town on the ocean which was at one time the harborfor Dunedin. Since then, the Dunedin Harbor has beendredged and put in s
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