DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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Leaving the vantage point at the Cemetery, and retracing one's steps to the 

 Museum in Great King Street, the intersecting thoroughfare of Albany Street directly 

 carries one by the tram-route into George Street, a rather narrow but very busy artery, 



which at the open space 

 known as the Octagon takes 

 the name of Prince's Street, 

 and thence continues its per- 

 fectly straight course as far 

 as the boundary of Caver- 

 sham. These two streets de- 

 scribe a total length of two 

 and a half miles through the 

 city, and both commercially 

 and architecturally they are 

 the leading thoroughfares of 

 the place. Passing into 

 George Street from Albany 

 Street, the eye falls, at the 

 next corner, upon a fine church 



THE KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



with a lofty and symmetrical tower, resembling in its general outline and style First 

 Church, but built of stone of a more sombre hue. It is the Knox Presbyterian Church, 

 where the venerable and stalwart Dr. Stuart has filled the pulpit for many years past. 



This province of Otago, has a history as interesting as that of the sister province 

 of Canterbury. Its colonization was projected and carried out under the auspices of a 

 Scottish Presbyterian Association, formed at Glasgow, in May, 1845, f l a >' members of 

 the Free Church of Scotland, from the General Assembly of which Church the scheme 



