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readily catch the eye being the branch offices of the Banks of New South Wales and 

 New Zealand. The noticeable three-storey block consisting of the Queen's Hotel and 

 shops forms about the finest pile of masonry in the place. From Thames Street one 



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proceeds by the intersecting thoroughfare of Severn Street to the Botanical Gardens, 

 amid which a charming fresh-water creek winds a very serpentine course. The Esplanade 

 is a spacious promenade facing the harbour, and there is a capital cricket ground near 

 the North Town Belt. Oamaru is the terminus of two branch railway lines, of which 

 one extends up the valley of the Waiareka twenty-four miles, and the other up the 

 valley of the Waitaki to Hakateramea, about fifty miles. The finest ecclesiastical building 

 is St. Columba's Presbyterian Church ; and the Waitaki High School is the chief scholastic 



