. The official handbook of New Zealand : a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the colony as a whole and on the several provinces ; edited by Julius Vogel . ovince offers easymeans of procuring for their children, atthe lowest possible rates, a sound elementaryeducation, with opportunities of extensionto the highest branches. And, as regards social condition, it may besaid that all are more free here than athome. There is less interference of onewith another, and no excessive subservienceof class to class. Moreover, the popyla?ideal of colonial life wUl not be old days,
. The official handbook of New Zealand : a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the colony as a whole and on the several provinces ; edited by Julius Vogel . ovince offers easymeans of procuring for their children, atthe lowest possible rates, a sound elementaryeducation, with opportunities of extensionto the highest branches. And, as regards social condition, it may besaid that all are more free here than athome. There is less interference of onewith another, and no excessive subservienceof class to class. Moreover, the popyla?ideal of colonial life wUl not be old days, when it was considered rightto model behaviour partly on an Australianpartly on an American pattern—the daysof the blue shirt, the cabbage-tree hat, andthe stock-whip — the days of almost un-limited drinking and swaggering — havelong ago passed away. People in Canter-bury conduct themselves in the same manneras people do at home, the one great differ-ence being, that no rowdyism is tolerated,and that, in the streets or the fields, or inthe crowds at the various social gatherings,no rags, or beggars, or evidences of miseryand destitution, are to be met ( 157 ) THE PKOVINCE OF WE8TLAND. IN 1861 the whole of the land coinprisini^tlie Province of Westland wus purchasedby the Government froiu the original in-habitants. There were not more thanthirty of them in the Province at thattime (at the last census there were sixty-eight Maoris in the Province), The Nativesof this Province had formerly been subjectto frequent attacks from the Natives of theNorth Island, who made predatory excur-sions to the Middle Island in search ofgreenstone, for which this Province is years previous to the Govern-ment purchasing the land of the Province,two Native commanders, Niho andTakerei,after having served under Te Eauparaha inattacking the Native settlements on theEast Coast of this Island, proceeded withtheir followers down the West Coast as faras the Hokitika Eiver, ki
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