New Zealand

More often the tourist gains the volcanoes and thermal springs by coming thither southward from the town of Auckland. And here let me observe that Auckland and its surroundings make the pleasantest urban district in the islands. Within thirty miles of the city there is much that is charming both on sea and land. Nor will a longer journey be wasted if a visit be paid to the chief bays and inlets of the northern peninsula, notably to Whangaroa, Whangarei, Hokianga, and the Bay of Islands. Still, nothing in the province of Auckland is likely to rival in magnetic power the volcanic district of which Roto-rua is the official centre. To its other attractions have now been added a connection by road with the unspoiled loveliness of Lake Waikarémoana and the forest and mountain region of the Uriwera tribe, into which before the ’nineties white men seldom ventured, save in armed force. Rising like a wall to the east of the Rangitaiki River the Uriwera country is all the more striking by reason of the utter contrast it affords to the desolate, half-barren plains of pumice which separate it from the Hot Lakes. These last and their district include Taupo, with its hot pools and giant cones. But the most convenient point among them for a visitor’s headquarters is undoubtedly Roto-rua.

Index

• Acclimatisation, 59
• Acclimatisers, 65
• Adams, Arthur, 21
• Akaroa, 190, 201, 215
• Albatrosses, 213
• Alps, 6, 160, 166, 179
• Antipodes Island, 206
• Aorangi, 163, 164, 165, 167, 170, 173, 175, 233
• Ara-tia-tia Rapids, 123
• Art, 20, 21, 49
• Auckland, 19, 28, 75, 90, 101, 104, 114, 129, 132, 142, 193, 231, 232, 234
• Isles, 91, 94, 184, 191, 204, 205, 206, 222, 223, 225
• Australia, 5, 10, 11, 20, 37, 73, 101, 165
• Australian stock-riders, 68
• Bay of Plenty, 115, 116, 117, 120, 140
• Beech, 87
• woods, 161
• Bell, Dr. Mackintosh, 176
• Bell-bird, 192
• Bidwill, 128, 136
• Blackwell, 24
• Blue duck, 64
• Bounties, the, 206, 207
• Bowen, the 182
• British trees, 7
• Broadleaf, the large or shining, 94
• Brunner, 177, 193
• Buddle, Mr., 117
• Buick, 24
• Buller River, 160, 233
• Bush-fire, 105
• lawyer, 99
• settler, 40
• Butler, Samuel, 162, 163
• Butter, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17
• factories, 11
• Caddell, James, 196, 197
• Campbell Island, 227, 228, 229
• Canoe, 76, 77
• Cape Maria Van Diemen, 133, 204
• Carrick, Mr., 24
• Chapman, Mr. Justice, 200, 206
• Charles Edward, the young Pretender, 228
• Chatham Island lily, 222
• Chatham Islands, the, 190, 204, 211, 212, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221
• Cheese, 12, 13, 14, 17
• Chief towns, 18
• Christchurch, 28, 132, 162, 232, 233
• Clematis, 37, 94, 95
• Climate, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 14, 35, 36, 38, 52, 165, 170, 187, 222
• Clutha River, 202
• Cockayne, Dr., 24, 191
• Colenso, 95, 97
• Contrasts, 6
• Cook, Captain, 168, 180, 195
• Coprosma, 100
• Country labourers, 50
• life, 28, 29, 32, 35, 39
• life tendencies, 46
• Cowan, Mr. James, 24, 130
• Craddock, Colonel, 53
• Cricket, 72, 73
• Decentralised colony, 19
• Deer-stalking, 61
• Department of Public Health, 44
• Disappointment Island, 204, 226, 227
• Domett, 21, 138, 155
• Douglas glacier, 176
• Drummond, Mr. James, 24
• Dundonald, the barque, 225
• Dunedin, 28
• Dusky Sound, 180, 186
• Sound in 1771, 195
• Eels, 65, 213, 214
• Egmont, Mount, 105, 125, 165, 234
• Elingamite, 211
• English trees and flowers, 2
• Eruption of Tarawera, 139, 144
• Factories, 26
• Factory hands, 26
• Fairies, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83
• Fairy-tales, 80
• Farm labourers, 14, 51
• Farmers, 8, 13, 17, 29, 30, 31, 46, 47, 50, 106
• Farming, 32
• Fern, 55, 86
• Ferns, 38, 85, 116, 119
• Fiords, 179
• Fire, 77, 102, 106, 107, 108, 110, 125, 183
• Fish, 65
• Fishing, 49
• Fitzgerald, E. A., 171, 172, 173
• Flax, 12, 13, 37, 86, 95, 99, 202, 213
• Flightless birds, 184, 186, 188
• duck, 184, 204
• Football, 71, 72
• Forests, 104, 105
• Freeholders, 48
• Freezing, 13
• factory, 15
• Frozen beef, 17
• mutton, 11
• Fuchsias, 94
• Garden, 34, 49, 107
• Gardening, 36, 85
• General Gates, the, 197
• General Grant, the, 224, 225
• Gentians, 94, 223
• Gerard, Mr. George, 61
• Geyser, 116, 119, 139, 148, 150, 151, 152, 164
• Goats, 52, 53, 54, 104, 191, 223
• Godwits, 62, 192
• Gold-mining, 13
• Grafton, the, 224
• Grass, 2, 7, 41, 72, 102, 106, 107, 108, 120, 121, 124, 125, 163, 222, 226
• Green, Mr., 166, 168, 171, 175
• Green’s climb, Mr., 169
• Greenstone, 200
• Grey, Sir George, 80, 129, 155
• Grey duck, 62, 64
• kiwi, 184
• Hamilton, A., 24
• Hardie, Mr. Keir, 27
• Harewood, 215
• Hauraki Gulf, 74, 186, 192
• Hau-roto, 160, 177, 179
• Hawke’s Bay, 104, 232
• Hazard, Mr., 145
• Healing waters, 154
• Health Department, 45
• Hemp, 12, 13
• Henry, Mr. Richard, 187, 188, 189
• High Alps, 57
• Hinemoa, 155
• Hochstetter, 136, 163
• ice-fall, 176
• Hongi, 156, 157, 158
• Hooker glacier, 172, 174, 176
• Hori Haupapa, 157
• Horo-Horo, 126
• Horses, 68, 69, 71
• Hotels, 20
• Hot Lakes, 134, 234, 235
• Lakes District, 118
• House-sparrow, 60
• Howitt, Mr. Charlton, 193
• Huka, 123
• Hutton, 24
• Inter-colonial trade, 10
• Island sanctuaries, 186
• Jean Bart, the, 218, 219
• Journal of the Polynesian Society, 24, 219
• Kahikatea, 101
• Kahukura, 80
• Kaka, 57, 63, 84, 96
• Kakapo, 184, 186, 189
• Kapiti, 186, 190, 191, 217
• Karaka, 37, 95, 96, 97, 98, 191, 212, 214
• Kauri, 11, 88, 89, 90, 91, 101, 103, 106, 192
• gum, 13
• Kea, 57, 58, 167, 186
• Kermadecs, 133, 204, 207, 208
• Kirk, 91
• Kirk’s Forest Flora, 24
• Kiwi, 186, 188, 189
• Kowhai, 87, 94, 95, 96
• Krakatoa, 141
• Laing, 24, 92
• Lake Taupo, 116, 127, 234
• Tikitapu, 144
• Lakes of the South Island, 177
• Lance-wood, 88, 100
• Likeness to England, 2
• Literature, 21, 22, 23
• Little Barrier Island, 75, 186, 191, 192
• Mackay, Miss, 21
• Manapouri, 177, 179, 187, 192, 232
• Mannering, Mr., 170, 171
• Manuka, 37, 55, 95
• Maori—their belief in fairies, 77, 78, 79
• boys, 96
• burning of forest, 103
• cannibalism, 126
• canoes, 198
• chief, 141
• children, 44
• cooking, 153
• of Cook’s Strait, 215
• dogs, 57, 220
• drink, 44
• fairy-tales, 80
• fight, 192
• their food, 83
• gentleman, 128
• guide, 134
• guns, 84
• their health, 43
• history, 199
• Horo-Horo, 126
• hunters, 184
• karaka, their use of the, 97, 98
• kindness, 210
• Lake Taupo, 116, 122, 123
• their lands, 44
• as minstrels, 130
• myths, 76
• their numbers, 43, 218
• offerings to Tané, 77
• their outlook, 45
• poem, 131
• prophets, 159
• their qualities, 45
• race, 129, 158
• ruins of stockade, 118
• solitary family, 195
• tradition, 115
• travellers, 125
• tribe, 40, 157
• villages, 152
• warrior, 158
• woman, 133
• women, 100
• Matai, 87
• Matipo, 37
• Mayor Island, 118, 119, 120
• Meat, 13, 14, 16
• freezing, 14
• Middle class, 25
• Milford Sound, 180, 181, 182, 183, 200
• Mistletoe, 94
• M’Kinnon, Quintin, 193
• M’Nab, Mr., 24, 198
• Moa, 184, 199
• Mokoia, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159
• Moriori, 190, 212, 213, 214, 216, 217, 218
• Motor-driving, 49
• Mount Cook, 163, 175
• Ruapehu, 95
• Tasman, 164
• Mountain-lily. See Shepherd’s lily
• Murchison glacier, 176
• Music, 21, 49
• Mutton, 13, 16, 34, 41, 58
• Mutton-bird, 84, 206, 213
• Names of lakes and mountains, 178
• Napier, 232
• National parks, 183
• Native pigeons, 62
• Nei-nei, 100
• Nelson, 28, 74, 142, 177, 233
• Newspapers, 22, 23
• New Zealand harriers, 69
• Ngaitahu, 199, 202, 203
• Ngata, Mr. Apirana, M.P., 45
• Ngatimamoe, 199, 203
• Ngatoro, 115, 116, 146
• Ngauruhoe, 116, 128
• Nikau, 37, 88
• Ohinemutu, 118, 133, 145, 152
• Orchids, 94
• Otira River, 233
• Over-sea trade, 10
• Palm-lily, 37, 88
• Palm-tree, 86, 99
• Panax, 88
• Paradise duck, 64
• Parrots, 62, 96
• Parrot’s-beak, 94
• Passion-flower, 94
• Pelorus Jack, 66
• Picton, 233
• Pigeon, 84
• Pigs, 233
• Pink and White Terraces, 136, 137, 150, 164
• Poetry, 21
• Pohaturoa, 126
• Pohutu, 151
• Pohutu-kawa, 37, 87, 91, 192
• Polack, 158
• Polo, 49, 70
• Pomaré, Dr., 45
• Potts, Thomas, 24, 57, 104, 213
• Products, 10
• Provinces, 18
• Pukeko, 63
• Pumice, 120, 121, 124
• Puoho, 201, 202
• Puriri, 88, 90, 91, 93
• Rabbit, 53, 59, 185
• Rata, 76, 77, 87, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 187, 191, 223
• Rauparaha, 190, 199, 201, 203, 215, 217
• Recreations, 49
• Red-deer, 60
• Resemblance to Scotland, 2
• Resolution Island, 186, 187, 196
• Rewa-rewa, 88
• Ribbon-wood, 95, 161
• Riding, 49, 68
• Rifleman, the, 219
• Riggs, Captain Abimelech, 199
• Rimu, 77, 87, 91
• Roa, 184
• Rodney, the, 215
• Ross, Mr., 24, 130, 170, 174
• Roto-ehu, 121
• Roto-iti, 121, 144, 156
• Roto-kakahi, 121
• Roto-ma, 121
• Roto-mahana, 118, 120, 121, 133, 136, 137, 140, 141, 143, 145
• Roto-roa, 179
• Roto-rua, 66, 67, 117, 121, 126, 133, 136, 145, 147, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154, 156, 175, 234, 235
• Rua, 159
• Ruapehu, 118, 119, 125, 126, 140
• Salmon, 65
• Saw-miller, 110, 112, 114
• mills, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106
• Scenery, 5, 6, 10, 52
• Scenic reserves, 105
• Selwyn, Bishop, 3, 128, 158, 214
• Settlement, 8, 41, 160
• Settlements, 18
• Settler, 42, 106, 107, 162
• Settlers, 49, 108, 128, 142, 207
• Shand, Mr., 24, 214
• Sheep, 11, 15, 45, 53, 56, 58, 59, 98, 103, 107, 109, 144, 163, 170, 220
• stations, 33
• Shepherd’s lily, 95, 161
• Shipping companies, 15
• Shipwrecks, 224
• Shooting, 49
• Smith, Mr. Percy, 24, 104, 116, 119
• Snares, 205, 206, 207
• Snaring, 83
• Societies, 25
• Society, 24
• Sophia, the guide, 141, 147
• Sounds, the, 179, 180, 182, 193, 195
• Southern Alps, 14, 59, 163, 165, 233
• Sparrows, 185, 187, 188, 191
• Spearing, 67, 83
• Sport, 50, 52, 66, 67, 70, 71, 149
• Stack, Canon, 78, 199
• State sanatorium, 153
• Station, 35
• hands, 39, 58
• Steamship companies, 10, 19
• Stewart, the sea-captain, 212, 228, 229
• Stitch-bird, 192
• Stoats, 59, 60, 185
• Supplejack, 99
• Sutherland Falls, the, 181, 182, 192
• Falls to Milford Sound, 233
• Takahé, 184
• Tané, 78, 83
• Tapu, 197
• Tarata, 95
• Tarawera, 120, 121, 136, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 151
• Tasman, 194, 195, 208, 209
• glacier, 175, 176
• Sea, 5
• Taupo, 116, 119, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 133, 134, 148, 149, 153, 235
• Tawa, 87
• Te Anau, 177, 178, 179, 187, 192, 233
• Te Heu Heu, 127, 128, 129, 130, 137, 158
• Te Kanawa, 81, 82
• Te Kooti, 219, 220
• Terrace, 140, 143
• Terraces, the, Pink and White, 136, 137, 150, 164
• Te Waro, 151
• Thermal Springs District, 118
• Three Kings, the, 204, 208
• Tikitapu, 121
• Timber, 101, 103, 106, 108, 113, 125
• cutting, 13
• Titoki, 91
• Toé-toé, 37, 95
• Tohunga, 82, 158
• Tongariro, 116, 119, 126, 127, 137, 146
• Totalisator, 71
• Totara, 77, 88, 90
• Tourist Department, Government, 24, 175, 231
• Towns, 19, 20, 22, 24, 28
• Transactions of the N.Z. Institute, 24, 116, 200
• Tree-felling, 109, 111
• ferns, 38, 88, 191, 223
• Tregear, Edward, 24, 77, 158
• Trout, 66, 67, 109, 149
• Tuhawaiki, 190, 202
• Tukoto, 146, 147, 158, 159
• Tutu, 95, 98
• Union Steamship Company, 9
• University, 18
• Uriwera, 159, 235
• Vegetable sheep, 58, 99
• Veronicas, 37, 161, 223
• Vogel, Sir Julius, 102, 104
• Volcanoes, 6, 120, 234
• Von Haast, 163, 166, 193
• Hochstetter, 90, 164
• Waikarémoana, 234
• Waikato, 81, 123, 126, 150, 190, 232
• Waikité Geyser, 150, 151
• Waimangu, 150
• Wairakei, 149
• Wairoa, 145, 146
• Wakatipu, 177, 178, 194
• Walkenshaw, Clementina, 228, 229
• Wall, Arnold, 21
• Wandering albatross, 38, 206
• Wanganui, 105, 125, 128, 234
• Weasels, 59, 60, 185, 186
• Webb, 74
• Wekas, 188, 189
• Wellington, 19, 28, 74, 132, 231, 232
• Harbour, 234
• Whaka-rewa-rewa, 147
• Whangarei, 75, 234
• Whangaroa, 75, 234
• White Island, 115, 116, 117, 119, 140
• Wild cattle, 54
• dogs, 56
• ducks, 63, 205
• ducks—flightless, 184, 204
• fowl shooting, 62
• goats, 52, 53, 54, 104, 191, 223
• parrots, 84
• pigs, 54, 55, 109
• Wood-fairies, 76
• pigeon, 63
• Wool, 10, 11, 12, 15, 34, 221
• Working gentlemen, 48
• Wreck of the steamship Elingamite, 209
• Yachts, 74