The fact that nothing has hitherto been published concerning life in this part of New Zealand from the pen of a _bona-fide_ settler has induced me to write the following pages. Before commencing the undertaking, I had been at considerable pains to satisfy myself of the truth of this fact, and naturally so, for it is the life-buoy I cling to as I take this, my first dip, in the sea of literature; it is my one excuse for troubling the public, and in it consists my hope that they will consent to be troubled.…
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