. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. esire to improve their condition, though the Govern-ment maintains native schools among them at its own expense. This district, he continued, is much more pastoral than agri-cultural, and we think it is the best part of New Zealand for sheep andcattle. I wish you could be here at the time of our annual fair, sothat you could see for yourself what
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. esire to improve their condition, though the Govern-ment maintains native schools among them at its own expense. This district, he continued, is much more pastoral than agri-cultural, and we think it is the best part of New Zealand for sheep andcattle. I wish you could be here at the time of our annual fair, sothat you could see for yourself what we produce. The show of sheepis excellent, and the merinos, Lincolns, and Cotswolds exhibited cannotbe excelled anywhere in the whole colony. Our horses are certainlygood, and at the last show there was not an inferior animal in thecattle-pens. One class of eight heifers was so good that the judgescommended all that did not take prizes. Then we had ploughs, horse-rakes, grain - sowers, wagons, pleasure carriages, and other things, allmade in our own factories, together with jewellery and silver and goldwork from New Zealand metals, various manufactured articles, such asfarina, starch, glucose, and other products from the growth of our SCENE ON A SHEEP FARM.—OFF TO THE PASTURE. And here, said the gentleman, as he took up a curious lump thatresembled a dried and shrivelled mushroom, here is something thatwill puzzle you. The youths looked wonderingly at it, and confessed their ignoranceas to its character. 244 THE BOY TRAVELLEKS IN AUSTRALASIA.
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