Letters from George B. Parker: Folder 2 (Greenock; Atrato, Tobaga, Waitiu, Waimate, Melbourne, Oamaru, Christchurch, Waihou.) (118p.), 11 April 1866-30 November 1867

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Visit to Scotland; voyage to Tabaga on Atrato 'a splendid vessel', 2 August - 30 August 1866; lack of coals; voyage on Ruahine from Panama, September 1866; quarrels between neighbours; electing a road board; demand for produce from west coast diggings; new domestic staff, 'what awfully high wages this must sound in England'; visit to Melbourne; hunting kangaroos 'rather slow after English hunting'; walking with the Governor; W.Cunningham Smith to go to the North Island to look for a run; provincial politics; intends to stand for Timaru in General Assembly.

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