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River alone is estimated at about fifty-three million tons, and there is another bed in 

 the same locality sixty feet thick. A capital view of Nelson is obtainable from the 

 Zig-zag Hill, and one of the pleasantest roads out of the town is that to the water- 

 works, about an hour's drive. 

 The road skirts the Matai, here 

 as elsewhere fringed with wil- 

 lows, and spanned by rustic 

 bridges. Villas and cottages 

 embosomed amid, trees and gar- 

 dens fill in the prospect, and 



LOADING COAL AT GREYMUUTII. 



the ear is regaled with the 

 songs of English birds from the 

 hedge-rows. Or the walk up 

 Zig-zag Hill may be prolonged 

 to the Cemetery, two miles out 

 of town. Church Hill, not far 

 from Trafalgar Square, is also 

 worth a visit. A few miles to 

 the eastward lies the village 



of Whakapuaka, where the Australian cable touches dry land. The chief townships of 

 the province are Richmond, in the agricultural district of Waimea, and eight miles south- 

 west of Nelson ; Motueka, in the district of the same name on the western side of Blind 

 Bay ; Collingwood, at the mouth of the Aorere River, in the north-east corner of Golden 

 Bay ; and Charleston, Reefton and Westport, in rich mineral country on the west coast. 

 The Amuri is a valuable pastoral district on the borders of the province of Canterbury. 



THE INCLINE NEAR WESTPORT. 



