Other Southern Stations.

Waimate:

Dead water; a backwater; stagnant water.

Tokarahi:

Big rock.

Tapui:

Friend; close companion.

Ngapara:

Contraction of Nga-tepara, “the tables,” a curious combination of pakeha and pidgin-Maori. The owner of a sheep station wished to give it a Maori name equivalent to “Table-lands,” and so this hybrid form was coined.

Kurow:

Corruption of Kohu-rau, meaning “many mists,” the name of a mountain near this place, which frequently was covered with fog. There is a legend of a warrior chief of old who when retreating up this range, pursued by his enemies, by magic prayers conjured up a heavy fog, which effectually concealed him, enabling him to escape.