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\/ ir ZEALAND. 



landed, aiul where all tin- shipping trat'lir i.iU<-> pi. i.e. The n.ad I nun " Tin- Spit" 

 upward in a long indine \\luVh lias l.eeii carried through steep <-inl..inUin.-ii' rrnn 



and rendered highly attr.u n\<- to the e\e hy a profuse -r.. \\tli nt i, . -pi. mi'. !. 

 with \aried hues. These i-inhanknu-iUs slope a-ain on their l.iriln-r si.lc intc, deep vales 



well planted with trees, 

 while church buildings 

 crown one of the heights. 

 THE TOWN oi F rom this point the road 



NAPIER. , 



descends right into the 

 heart of the town, opening up to the view, 

 ere we reach it, a fine prospect of the 

 expanse of ocean merging at the horizon 

 into the soft blue of the sky. As the traveller 

 wanders through the streets and notes their names, 

 every thoroughfare calls to mind one or other of 

 the master-minds of English literature Milton 



Road, Shakespeare Road, Chaucer Road, Tennyson Street, Browning Street, Carlyle 

 Street, Dickens Street, and so on. These names were given by Mr. Alfred Domett 

 (the author of " Ranolf and Amohia"), who laid off the city in 1855. Napier is 

 what the Americans would call "a live town," and it possesses all the requirements 

 and conveniences of urban life. It is the head-quarters of the Bishop of Waiapu. 

 in which connection it may be mentioned that a fine cathedral is in course of erection. 

 The buildings are mostly of wood, and the process of architectural evolution has not 

 yet advanced far enough to justify the people in aiming at much display. A capital 



