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ford the streams, which are generally shallow with gravel beds. 

 The storm of the previous night had put snow caps on the hills 

 near Fairlie, which were bare when we passed up two days before. 

 At Pukaki we lunched, and as we got to Lake Tekapo before time 

 we had a good cup of hot tea in the hostess' private parlor. Behind 

 one of the abutments of the bridge was a thrift}- apple tree in full 

 blossom ; the broom also had largely blossomed out since we went 

 up and was more attractive than ever. We arrived at the Glad- 

 stone early and found the proprietor and also a much better room 

 than we had before. The drive was very cold all the way except 

 in the sun. The next morning left at 8:30; had a good run to 

 Timaru and sat in the train until the arrival of the Dunedin train 

 which was half an hour late. We passed a train with seventeen 

 cars crowded with passengers returning from the races, also two 

 supplementary trains. The hills were snow-capped all the way to 

 Christchurch and during the afternoon there was considerable hail. 

 Arriving at six we went to the United Service Hotel (not a fortu- 

 nate selection ) . 



Sunday, Nov. 10. All the forenoon was rainy and I sat in my 

 overcoat trying to keep tolerably warm, but at noon the weather 

 cleared and at two we took tram foi Mr. Bloxam's where we found 

 Mr. J. C. Adams, the chairman of the Board of Governors of Canter- 

 bury College (University of New Zealand); soon Mr. Waite, Mr. 

 Cocagne and another gentleman joined us, and after a pleasant chat 

 in the diningroom we had afternoon tea in the parlor, after which 

 Mr. Bloxam and I adjourned to the diningroom to discuss the collec- 

 tion of Hawaiian antiquities the Trustees of this museum wished 

 me to examine. The final price put upon the collection proved, as 

 I expected, greater than the museum cared to pay. We spent a 

 most agreeable evening, reaching our hotel at ten. Monday we 

 walked to the museum and spent a pleasant hour or two with Mr. 

 Waite ; then were taken to see the hall of Canterbury College, and 

 finally took the 5:25 train for Uyttelton where we embarked on the 

 Mararoa, the same steamer in which I had journeyed from Auck- 

 land to Melbourne twenty-four years before. There was the usual 

 overcrowding on New Zealand boats, greater than I have ever 

 seen allowed elsewhere, much rolling and many sick, but we both 



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