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NEW ZEALAND. '87
fields, occupied the chair three of the evenings. The daily
journals reported the lectures fairly and generously.
CHRISTCHUECH CITY.
Every street, in this city of some fifteen thousand inhabitants,
is named after an English bishop. The climate is
warm, dry, and inviting. Canterbury Plains, on which it is
situated, are one hundred and fifty miles in length, and from
forty to fifty in width. These fertile, undulating plains, a
very paradise for agriculturists, reminded me of our own
broad western prairies, that laugh with golden grains when
tickled with spade and plow. The harvests in this February
month had just been gathered, and rumbhng threshingmachines
were separating the chaff from the wheat. Half
circling Christchurch, runs a willow-shaded stream, clear as
a crystal. In the city proper, are five hundred Artesian
wells, with an average depth of eighty feet. There are also
six huge tanks within the city limits, ever full and bubbling,
as a safety against fires. Each tank holds twenty thousand
gallons. Here, too, is the choicest, and by far the most
extensive museum in the colony. Dr. Haast, the presiding
genius, is a scholar, a liberalist, thoroughly up in geology
and biological studies, and predisposed in favor of Spiritualism.
He attended our lectures. The museum is a stately
building, and has the finest moa skeletons in New Zealand.
The gardens in and about the city at this season, though
well cared for, and English-looking, were not rich in loquats,
scarlet pomegranates, and golden oranges ; neither were they
arrayed in the gorgeous blossoms of the tropics, but were full
of sweet, common flowers, such as we have seen in American
cities, and the Kew Gardens of London.
EANGIOEA.
Though mine is a missionary work, it is not for the
nature-children of New Zealand, the Maoris, but for the selfrighteous,
who while crying, " Lord, Lord !
" stone the