A US TRALASIA ILL US TRA TED. 



and took away exports comprising every description of New Zealand produce wool, skins, 

 leather, wheat, grass-seed, fruit, flax, and other goods, and two hundred and five thousand 

 six hundred and eighty-four carcases of mutton, seven thousand two hundred and eighty- 

 nine legs of mutton, and nineteen thousand and eighty-nine cases of meat. They also 

 purchased in the colony large supplies of coal. It is no wonder, under such circum- 

 stances, that the colonists consider it to be to their interest to support this enterprise. It 

 was arranged that the fortnightly service should be carried on conjointly with the steamers 

 of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Line, which now contributes in equal measure with the 



New Zealand Shipping 

 Company to foster the 

 trade of the colony. 

 Four daily papers 

 two morning and two 

 evening and a num- 

 ber of weeklies repre- 

 sent the fourth estate. 

 Sumner and New 

 Brighton are very 

 popular sea-side re- 

 sorts, and at Sumner 

 is also located the 

 Colonial Institution for 

 the Deaf and Dumb. 

 It is a charming little 

 watering-place, full of 



attractions for holiday-making and vacation-spending folk from Lyttelton and elsewhere. 

 One of the sights of Sumner is a striking natural feature known to local sight-seers' 

 fame as " The Cave Rock." It is a great mass of heaped-up crag that juts out from the 

 sandy beach, crowned by a signal-mast on the seaward side. Just beneath this flag-staff 

 is a large aperture hollowed out by the immemorial action of the sea. 



Returning to the city, and taking the train to Lyttelton, eight miles distant, the 

 traveller is enabled to visit the chief port of the province. The last stage of the trip 

 is through the tunnel that pierces the lofty hills between city and port, and commemo- 

 rates the spirit and enterprise of the late Mr. Moorhouse. It is two thousand eight 

 hundred and seventy yards long, cost one hundred and ninety-five thousand pounds in 

 construction, and is still the largest engineering work of the kind in New Zealand. 

 Lyttelton, as a town, can never be very large or extensive, owing to the formation of 

 the surrounding country. It is situated within the bight of a range of bleak, sombre 

 and lofty hills, ranged in the shape of a horse-shoe, the sides in most instances 

 descending in a steep and continuous slope to the water's edge, and the bight itself 

 sloping more gradually upwards from a contracted area of comparatively level land. It 

 was over the face of one of these bleak and barren hills that travellers who had occa- 

 sion to visit Christchurch in the early days were compelled laboriously to climb. The 

 entire extent of the fore-shore is bounded by a wooden breastwork, from which wharves 



THE CHKISTCHUKCH MUSEUM. 



