DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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Hastings, with its plantations of trees, its churches and comfortable homesteads, and its 

 flocks of long-woolled sheep ; Te Aute, with its native school ; Kaikora, on a plain 

 divided into numerous farms and backed by undulating downs ; Waipawa, with its 

 growing township and affluence of kahikatca timber ; Waipukurau, the picture of content 

 and plenty ; and Takapau, nestling amid groves of picturesque cabbage-trees, and with 





THROUGH THE SEVENTY-MILE BUSH. 



