Letters from Harry R. Parker (Pera, Suez, Benares, Yowen Hill, Christchurch, Omeo, Dunedin, Waitaki, Waitangi Waihau, Waimate, Temple Rothley Loughborough)

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Subjects include: voyage on Pera; other passengers 'are not of the first order'; tiresomeness of overland route; Aden; fine sunsets; staying on Danglish's sheep station 130 miles from Melbourne; the diggings; extracting gold; profitability of Victorian stations; looking for a station in New Zealand; bad roads in Otago; voyage on Omeo to Melbourne; has bought a run from Pike on Waitangi River; Christmas in Otago; stock on the run and labourers; plan of house; diggings at Inapeka drawing all farm hands; shearing 'fancy having about twenty ruffians to look after for a month'; buying cattle; unsuitability of Queensland appointment; visit from Bishop; training a horse for Timaru races; visit to England 1863/1864; new mail arrangements; effects of wet summer; price of wool; marriage to Emily Kitchener; birth of son, 1871; meeting of New Zealand synod 'who seem to devote themselves to persecuting poor Bishop Jenner'; change in partnership with brothers; buying land and borrowing money; George in attendance on Governor; deprived of large portion of run by freeholders; business and family matters after return to Temple Rothley, 1877-1912. (226p., some faint letters).

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