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264 ANOTHER MAIL FEOM MISS BYE.
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modationif the situation is particularly good . The consequence of this is fire long that -p the flue lace town , chimney at the is side half ; others which tents , brown serves some , quite somehow battered white , for and , with chimney broken little - g and down lass oven windows , with all in a and niud one a .
such Yesterday a comical we noticed effect one and house looked built mi entirel htil y uncomfortable of tin biscuit . boxes Soon ! it after had seeing this extraordinary , abodewe stumbled gy on one of canvasnot much
, , larger ture house and uncommonl was so shrouded y like in Moses the ' flax cradle ( New in the Zealand bulrushes flax , is for just this like minia flags - scarcelitof these tent
settlement or bulrushes s are at home occupied ) that almost we could entirely by the women y see have . whose Some left husbands the stores are and off
to the the shops digg in ings the town ; but , it as is reported not true in the that Cornish Daily men Telegraph . The " them men at class the
b digg themselves ings are , as and a bod if y I , miners judge — by -many appearances , a men fine among class too . — Both a our y , them at different
times hosts , Mr as . Strode istrate and and Mr banker . Doug and las , both have agree lived that among they are not bad men as a bod , y . mag There are numbers of , and scheming not desi brute gning men is among them believed , but
would have the Since athletic miner been the do , handsome Wakati credit is here a man to , p a , gold and m soldierl agnificent has a brother y been anywhere set bod of found , men y , like , * the the with a our mounted costume a Hors bearing as e too police Guards is and generall very from a carriage at becoming y Melbourne home that , an * -
dark cloth trousers any white army well-cut coats ; , and white helmet caps with flaps , one of the prettiest , costumes I the have cut seen of ; nothing coat and to describe , I confess that , but the
the colour is so brilliantand cap so good , , effect All is our perfect English . flowers grow well here ; I need not call over the icture leasant lace in Kentand
th can Gardener ere see a a cow ' Dunedin s Calendar tree , with garden , so its please . long The to , thick onl p y , difference leafless a p brown that p I trunk can , see and is , bunch here you and of
b ( New ehind Zealand the bush ) flax ;— - , this like tree spik y is exactl leaflets by far like at the the the funniest to ] skeleton _D ; or we a grass have of tree seen umbrella pushing , for when up
it it hi is grows h about little it four remains drops feet one at hig the h rib it top is after to tell another y that , the and stem by the is still time alive an it is : twenty this is ; feet not as
great a g picturesque , rapidity , tree and you has may been be imported sure . The to some Australian extent gum . The grows peculiarity here with of if it is the celebrated lant which the
this gum tree ( I wonder pup equally that celebrated near the 'Possom trunk from is mid said they trunk to are climb broad to the ?) , is and that not the unlike leaves an grow unserrated exactl sideways like edible , and
chestnutwhile -top they are shaped y a tar feet cymitar shape high . , , for There the then smell is all a the of still the leaves further bark become too change is uniform hi when hlaromatic in this size , tree and and gets all take I some expect the twenty cymi good
-. resinous matter ; could be extracted from it g but y the wood , is too porous to be worth much for building purposes ; on , the whole , the forests about here not fine as our dear old English woodsfor there are so many leafless
branches is are stopped so sticking after the up , first especiall glance dress y . at Society the tc tops he as , that said at , a all very and idea she low of said ebb luxuriant here is the ; nobod burden foliage y-
talks of all about their anything songs . The except barrack for , e the . ; " single women , Ti one , huge "
abomination sity to ; but repeat as I it shall here describe . I am this much in puzzled my letter how to the to rectif mes , there the thousand is no neces and - evils I too lainlsee require rectifing . The towndivided into two
factions one the Scotch p and y the English , alias " the old Identity , and the young , niteswho have made the lace
Iniquity , " _the latter chiefly Melpour , p , and who
264 Another Mail Feom Miss Bye.
264 ANOTHER MAIL FEOM MISS BYE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/48/
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