Victoria University of Wellington Library
A Romance of Lake Wakatipu
Contents
Contents.
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Chapter
I. The Otago Goldfields—Bill Fox, the Arrow River Discoverer—Full and correct Account of his Adventures as told by Himself—The Dunedin Gaoler—The Lakes Trade—The Devil's Staircase—The Little Old Man with a Grizzly Beard
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II. The Devil's Staircase—Wakatipu Trade—Footing it to the Nevis—Getting over the Devil's Staircase—The Old Man's Shanty—Daddy Campbell, of the Arrow—The "Nancy" creeps up alongside Queenstown Wharf
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III. A Goldfields Community—Law and Justice on the Goldfields—The Mining Agent—Duncan Campbell
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IV. Resident Magistrate's and Warden's Courts
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V. Social Usages on the Goldfields
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VI. A Journey to Dunedin—The Kawarau River—Cobb and Co.
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VII. A Typical Goldfields Teamster—Camping out—Stalactite Caves—The Natural Bridge—Kawarau and Clutha Junction—Eighty-seven Pounds weight of Gold
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VIII. A Typical Goldfields Township—The Urban Centre of the Dunstan—The Bar and Bar-parlour—Coach Night—The Warden's Lecture in Aid of the Hospital Fund—Rock-and-Pillar—Rattray Street Corner, Dunedin
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IX. The Free Kirk of Scotland Settlement—Dunedin in a Transition State—Extension of the City—Glasgow Arms Inn—The First Church—The Rev. Dr. Burns—Intestate Estate worth a Million and a half Sterling
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X. Josiah Begg, of San Francisco—Early Enterprise—Glasgow Fair—San Francisco in the "Forties"—"A Packman or Pedlar on Wheels"
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XI. A Little Love Affair—"A Faded Flower with a Bruised Stem"—Merchant Prince of the Golden City—The Colossal Fortune and the Hazel-nut Period—A Still, Small Voice
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XII. The Portioner, or Bonnet Laird—The Kirk and the Covenant—The Family Disgrace—A Provincial Practitioner—Kirk and Market—"A Bit Burky Callant"
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XIII. A Home Mission fulfilled—The Manufacturing Centre—Transfigurations of the Commercial Centre—The Clyde as it is and was—A Last Glimpse of the Distant Hills—The Young Men's Christian Association
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XIV. He made his Will—A Thankless Task—Mr. Begg's Mind is much exercised—Josiah's Domestic Economy—Jean Stewart—The Last Will and Testament
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XV. A Strange Hallucination took Possession of his Mind—Two Strings to the Bow—"Leave all and Follow Me"—The "King of Terrors"—A Flood of Light—Two Solitary Conspirators
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XVI. The Faro-table—A Hebrew named Isaac, or Old Iak—Sam Perkins, the Little Old Man with a Grizzly Beard—How Josiah Begg's Will got to Otago—An Irregular Marriage in Scotland—The Story of a Celebrated Lawsuit—"Entitled to succeed
quâ
Relict"
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XVII. Sam Perkins
en route
for New Zealand—"Sticking up" and robbing the local Bank—Surprise and Capture—The Legal Document of some Importance—A Distinguished Arrival in Otago
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XVIII. A Systematic Course of Black-mailing—The Road to Gabriel's Gully
viâ
West Taieri—Stuck up—The Release, and how effected—Garret, the Bushranger—Tracking and apprehending the Gang
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XIX. Muster of Outraged Victims—A Day's Appropriation by the Bushrangers—First Precursory of an Urban Centre—Exchange or Barter, and its Modes—A Novel Consignment of Merchandise—Jock Graham's Cats
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XX. Sam makes a Footing—Sam makes a Fall—The Blue Mountain Rush—Trial by Lynch-law—Rescued by the Police
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XXI. A Memorable Sunday Morning in Invercargill—Startling Intelligence—Hoards of Mineral Wealth—Bill Fox again—"It's not all Gold that glitters"—A Man with more Enterprise than Honesty—The Mokomoko Jetty—A "Wooden-headed" Railway Scheme—Sam Perkins in Exile—He starts for the New El Dorado—The Nevis
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XXII. The Little Old Man disappears—Distinguished Visitors from San Francisco—Tracking the Old Man—Over the Staircase headlong into the Lake—Back to the Golden City—The Arrowtown Lawyer again—Believes in the
Bona Fides
of the Will; and what was done in Consequence
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Appendix.
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1. Otago
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2. Otago Harbour
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3. Arrow River
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4. The Lakes Trade by Southland
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5. The Lakes Distric
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6. Ben Lomond
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7. Bluff Harbour
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8. The Devil's Staircase
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9. Queenstown
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10. The Timber Question
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11. The Natural Bridge
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12. The Clutha and Kawarau Junction
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13. The Kawarau River
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14. Wanaka and Hawea Lakes
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15. Clutha River
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16. River (Gold) Dredging
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17. West Coast Pass
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18. Dunedin
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19. Sabbath Observance
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20. The First Church, Dunedin
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21. The Rev. Dr. Burns
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22. A Character not always Deserved
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23. The "Bloody Clavers"
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24. Gabriel's Gully
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25. Molyneux Bay
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26. Waipori Flats
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27. Invercargill
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28. Bill Fox reaches the Out-station
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29. Southland
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30. Mokomoko Jetty
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31. The Wooden Railway
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