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Index.

• Abel, Mrs, 273.
• Acclimatisation centres, 321.
• Acland, Hon. John Burton, 349.
• Albert, Prince, 314.
• Alien animals, stocking of Tutira by, 307.
• Alien flora of Tutira, the naturalised, 242.
• Aliens (other) on Tutira prior to 1882, 314.
• Anaru, Kune, 52, 315.
• Anglo-Saxon, the, 365.
• Aparahama, 52, 315.
• Apley Run, 337.
• Arapawanui, 263, 278, 297, 302, 308.
• Auckland, 323, 336, 342, 345, 346, 347, 349, 363.
• Auckland Acclimatisation Society, 336, 338, 340, 345, 347.
• “Australian magpies,” 332.
• Australian quail, the, 333, 379.
• Avifauna of the station prior to settlement, the, 113.
• Bay of Islands, 273, 292, 320.
• Bay of Islands Mission Station, 271, 273, 311.
• Bay of Plenty, 346.
• Bee, F., 362.
• Bee, George, 241, 262, 268, 315, 360.
• Bennet, Rev. P. A., 52.
• Bible, translation of, into the Maori tongue, 265.
• Birch, W., 330, 354.
• Bird migrants, 324.
• Blackbird, the, 345.
• Black cricket, the, 319.
• Black Head stud bulls, 315.
• Black swan, 317.
• Blue duck—Waikoau, 148.
• Bluff in Napier, the, 336, 337.
• Bluff, South Island, the, 256, 303.
• Bon Gaultier ballads quoted, 71, 77.
• Brown, John Hunter, 346.
• Bumble-bee, the, 349.
• Burdens of sin, 275.
• “Burnt-Blanket” range, 91.
• “Bushrangers,” white and black, 131.
• California quail, the, 333, 379.
• Cambridge, 342.
• Campbell, Sir Norman, Bart., 338.
• Canterbury, 314.
• Canterbury settlement, 254.
• Canterbury, South, 349, 373.
• Carrier pigeons, 339.
• Carter, J. R., 314.
• Carter's station, 314.
• Carterton, 334, 337.
• Caterpillar, the, 380.
• Chaffinch, the, 347.
• Chambers, Bernard, 278, 337.
• Chartographers of the station, the, 180.
• Cheeseman, T. F., 347.
• Chief named Tamairuna, 70.
• Children of the Church, 265.
• Christianity, introduction of, into New Zealand, 265.
• Church Missionary Society, 268.
• City of Glasgow bank failure, 143.
• Coastal Hill, 291, 293, 295, 296, 297, 298, 300, 303, 304.
• Cockayne's (Dr L.) ‘New Zealand Plants and their Story’ quoted, 103.
• “Combs” of West, Centre, and East Tutira, 8.
• Conglomerate cave, 70.
• “Conical Hill,” the, 37, 308.
• Cook, Captain, 307, 307, 351.
• Cook's Straits, 257, 310.
• Country Boundary Hill, 291, 293.
• Cunningham, Arthur M., 146, 161, 220, 330, 393.
• Darwin, Charles, at Mission garden, Paihia, 269.page 402
• Darwin's (Charles) ‘Voyage of the Beagle’ quoted, 266.
• Davies, Mrs, 273.
• “Dead Man's Hill,” the, 38.
• Discovery of the country, 307.
• Dolbel's Big Face, 296.
• Dolbel, Philip, 118.
• “Dome,” the, 37, 38, 255, 350.
• Domestic animals, “Wild,” 351.
• Doune, Captain, 309.
• Doull, Mr, 121.
• Earth-bubble, 196.
• East Cape, 346, 348.
• Eel-fishing on Tutira, 87.
• Eel-house or eel-lodge, 86.
• Eel-weirs, rights to, 87.
• Endeavour, the, 309, 310.
• Fabulous tales and legends, 85.
• Fern-crushing, 162.
• Fern-grinding, 134.
• Ferns of Tutira, the, 110.
• Fire and flood weeds, 282.
• Flora of New Zealand, 100.
• Forest of the past, the, 46.
• Frazertown, 298, 299, 300.
• Frimley, 342.
• Fulton, Fred, 253.
• Galway, Sir Henry, letter from, quoted, 272.
• Garden escapes, 259.
• Geese, “Wild,” 339.
• Geology of Hawke's Bay district, 2.
• George, Henry, 220.
• Gisborne, 292, 299, 334, 348, 349, 372.
• Gleason, Dr H. A., 257.
• Grasshopper, the, 380.
• Great South Road, 342, 345.
• Greenfinch, the, 332.
• Greenstone Tiki, 96.
• Grey, Sir George, 317.
• Griffin, Mr, 298.
• Hangaroa, 371.
• Hard times, 132.
• Harrier hawk, the, 333.
• Hastings, 301, 323, 328, 330, 333, 338, 340, 342.
• Havelock North, 268, 371.
• Hawke's Bay, 1, 8, 14, 50, 116, 117, 119, 120, 133, 134, 135, 138, 142, 156, 202, 203, 223, 230, 253, 254, 255, 262, 270, 280, 288, 295, 297, 301, 315, 316, 317, 318, 320, 323, 328, 333, 334, 336, 338, 341, 342, 344, 354, 368, 377, 379, 380, 390, 394.
• Hawke's Bay Acclimatisation Society, 328, 330, 333, 336, 337, 340.
• Hawke's Bay Provincial Council, 332, 333, 387.
• Hawke's Bay Rabbit Board, 369.
• Heathendom and Christianity, 56.
• Herstwell, W. R., 314.
• Heru-o-Turea block, 241.
• Heru-o-Tureia, 315, 359, 362.
• Heru-o-Tureia block, 262, 301.
• Heru-o-Tureia forest, 310.
• Heru-o-Tureia, the comb of Tureia, 3, 36.
• Hindmarsh's Rakamoana station, 356.
• Hine-kino—wise woman or priestess, 66.
• Holnicote, 349.
• Homestead of the 'eighties, 150.
• Homestead of the 'seventies, 118.
• Honey bee, the, 320.
• Horse-trails, 189.
• Ikaroa, Board of the Maori Land District, 387, 392.
• Image Hill, 286.
• Image Paddock, 285.
• Invasion from the north, the, 340.
• Invasion from the south, the, 328.
• Kahikanui swamp, 26, 253.
• Kai-tera-tahi swamp, 303.
• Kaiwaka, 351.
• Kawau, 317.
• Kells, J. B., 335.
• Kiernan, T. C., 120, 122, 132, 133, 154, 155, 159, 161, 220, 259, 260, 273, 343, 349.
• Kiernan's diary, 121–130.
• Kitchen midden, ancient, 57, 69.
• Kokopuru, 57, 94.
• Kowhio, poetess, 64.
• Kumara, or sweet potato, 63.
• Lakes, the, 12.
• Lambton Quay, 314.
• Lament for Te Mautaranui, 78.
• Lament of Koa for Ti Waewae, 78.
• Land's End, 360.
• Landslip in 1905, 42.
• Landslips, 41.
• Lincoln-Romney ewe flock, 357.
• Langlands, 339.
• Lyttelton, 314.
• Macandrew, Mr, 357.
• M'Hardy, Leslie, of Black Head, quoted, 315.page 403
• M'Kenzie, C. A., 145, 146, 154, 161, 220.
• Mackinnon, John, 278.
• MacMahon, Mr, 315, 317, 346, 347.
• Maheawha ford, 90.
• Mahia, 363.
• Malaspina, 307.
• Malcolm, Admiral, 273.
• Malcolm, Mrs, 273.
• Mangatu stream, 348.
• Manning's ‘Old New Zealand’ quoted, 69.
• Maori—
• Alphabet, 53.
• Ancient foot-trail, 1.
• Ancient settlement, 56.
• Arrival of the, 307.
• Character, 271.
• Clearings, 50.
• Cultivation grounds, 139, 294, 296.
• Drainer's camp, 257.
• Fort builders, 59.
• Landlords, 229, 239.
• Language, 52.
• Life, relics of, 60.
• Life, two periods of, 52.
• Race, the, 71.
• The ancient, 50.
• Tribal custom, 70.
• Villages, 301, 352.
• Maoris, the, a fine race, 241.
• Marl or “Papa,” sandstone, &c., of Tutira, 9.
• Matamata estate, 349.
• “Mata-te-Rangi,” 37.
• Maungaharuru, 266, 267, 268, 270, 308, 317, 370, 393, 399.
• Maungaharuru block, 255.
• Maungaharuru forest, 310.
• Maungaharuru range, 2, 269.
• Maungahinahina, 295.
• Maungahinahina, the valley of, 41, 42, 269.
• Maungaraki range, 314.
• Meanee Mission Station in Hawke's Bay, 273.
• Merritt, Ben, 121.
• Merritt, G. J., 119, 120, 121, 155, 157, 158, 159.
• Migration of blackbird and thrush, 346.
• Migration of chaffinch, 348.
• Migration routes, 321.
• Minah, the, 330.
• Mohaka, 299, 300, 304, 305, 347, 360, 373.
• Mohaka chief, Popoia, 69.
• Mohaka district, 338.
• Mohaka massacre in the 'seventies, 266.
• Mohaka River, 25.
• Moore, John, of Rakamoana, 334.
• Morris, William, 117.
• Morrison, John, 314.
• Motu-Mangahamia-Arawhona, 348.
• Motu - Mangatu - Maungahamea - Arowhona-Aorangi range, 346.
• Motu River, 348.
• Nairn, Mr, 298.
• Napier, 116, 118, 119, 145, 147, 222, 240, 247, 276, 288, 289, 290, 297, 300, 301, 303, 305, 312, 339, 340, 372.
• Napier-Tutira-Wairoa road, 331.
• Napier-Wairoa road, 246.
• Napoleon's tomb at St Helena, 273.
• National Mortgage and Agency Co., 155, 222.
• Native avifauna, the future of, 203.
• Native birds, cause of diminution of, 205.
• Natural Paddock Hill, 317, 350.
• New Plymouth, 320.
• “Newton Paddock,” 41.
• Newton range, 2, 4, 12, 225.
• Newton, T. K., 117, 133, 161, 220.
• New Zealand bird-life, 398.
• Ngai-Tatara and Urewera at Kokopuru, 92.
• Ngata, Mr, 386, 387.
• “Nobbie's” range, the, 36.
• North Island, 365, 373.
• Northern bay, 1921, 20.
• Omaranui, battle of, 266.
• Opepe, 340.
• Opoiti, 300.
• Oporae and Taupunga, 80.
• Opotiki, 348.
• Opouahi, 357, 359, 360, 362.
• Opouahi block, 356, 358, 399.
• Opouahi Educational Reserve, 393.
• Opouahi forest, 310.
• Opouahi Lake, 5, 13.
• Orakai Lake, 5, 12, 13, 260.
• Pack-horses, 161.
• Packing-posts, 233.
• Pack-trail, sinuosities of a, 190.
• “Pa Hill,” the, 37.
• Paihia, 271.
• Paihia, Church of England Mission Station at, 266.
• Paihia, Church of England Station at, 272.
• Pane-Paoa, 293.
• Papakiri, 4.
• Paradise duck, 318.
• Partridge, the, 379.
• Patea country, 354.
• Patterson, Charlie, 384.
• Pea-fowl, 317.page 404
• Pedestrians, 287.
• Peel Forest Station, 349, 373.
• Pera's Flat, 268.
• Petane, 274, 290, 291, 292, 294, 297, 300, 301, 303, 305, 315, 347, 371.
• Petane River, 298.
• Pheasant, the, 379.
• Pig, the, 351.
• Pig-hunting, 368.
• Pigeons, native, 339.
• “Placer” sheep, the, 384.
• Plagues of caterpillar, grasshopper, and black crickets, 332.
• Plants, list of, naturalised on Tutira—
• Prior to 1882, 248.
• Between 1882–1892, 249.
• Between 1892–1902, 250.
• Between 1902–1920, 250.
• Port Ahuriri, 288, 298.
• Porter, Sir Bruce B., 399.
• Poverty Bay, 26, 39, 272, 304, 319, 323, 335, 336, 346, 348, 371, 376, 379.
• Puke-Mokimoki, 291.
• Puraho-tangihia, the skirmish of, 91.
• Putorino, 241, 254, 255, 260, 267, 299, 300, 304, 356, 399.
• Queen Charlotte Sound, 309.
• Rabbit, the, 322.
• Racecourse Paddock, 320.
• Rainfall of Eastern Tutira for 1917 and 1919, 5–7.
• Rangitata River, 374.
• Rat, the, 307.
• Ray, Sidney H., letter from, quoted, 52.
• “Razorback,” the, 37, 360.
• Red-deer, the, 338.
• Red-deer introduced in '62, 314.
• Redpole, the, 347.
• Regnier, Rev. Father, Meanee Mission Station, 270.
• Resolution, the, 309, 310.
• Rimutaka Range, 314.
• Rise and fall of H. G.-S. and A. M. C., 147.
• Rissington, 333.
• Robison, James, 314.
• Rock, Tautenga, the, 84.
• Roy's Hill, 337.
• Ruahine Range, 346.
• Ruamahanga, 314.
• Russell, Sir William, 156, 160, 276.
• “Sandhills,” the, 36, 51.
• Scinde Island, 336.
• Sea-floors on eastern Tutira, 11.
• Sealing and whaling industries, 313.
• Shakespeare Hill, 288.
• Sheep-paths, 181.
• Sheep viaduct, 193.
• Ship Cove, 309.
• Shirley poppies, 349.
• Smith, Harry W. Guthrie-, 146, 319, 339, 387.
• Smith, Major-General, 273.
• Smith's (Percy) ‘Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century’ quoted, 66.
• Smith, W. Cunningham, 146.
• “Smother” Creek, 253.
• Soils of Tutira, the, 22.
• South Island, 390.
• Sparrow, migration of the, 344.
• Sparrows, imported, 340.
• Starlings, 336.
• Stocking and Scour, 198.
• Stout, Sir Robert, 386, 387.
• Stowaway seeds, 252.
• Stuart, C. H., 119, 120, 121, 122, 132, 145, 161, 220.
• Stuart, T. J., 119, 120, 121, 122, 146, 161, 220, 259, 274.
• Stuart, W., 145, 146, 161, 220.
• Table Mountain, 225.
• “Taipo”—goblin crossing, 91.
• Tancred, Sir Thomas, 315.
• Tangoio, 271, 273, 280, 289, 290, 292, 293, 294, 295, 297, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 315, 337, 339, 378.
• Tangoio-Tutira road, 297.
• Taranaki Plains, 314.
• Tarawera, eruption of, 14.
• Tarawera, eruption of '86, 25.
• Tarewa-o-te-whenua, 94.
• Taupunga peninsula, 259, 261, 274.
• Tauranga-kaou, 72.
• Tauranga-koau Island, 59, 71.
• Tawa Bush, 98.
• Te Awhiawhi, 63.
• Te Hata-kani, 52, 67.
• Te Maru Lake, 5, 13.
• Te Mata, 278, 337.
• Te-Poa-Kore, 63.
• Te Puna, 340.
• Te Rere-a-Thumata Falls, 5.
• Te Rewa, 59.
• Te Roto-a-Tara Lake, 13.
• Te Uku, 291.
• Thrush, the, 346.
• Tinoroto, 304.
• Titi-a-Punga, capture of, 95.
• Ti Waewae, the death of, 71.page 405
• Tobacco plant, 264, 267.
• Tohungas—wizards or priests, 65.
• Toogood, Edward, 119, 161, 220.
• Trails from the coast to Tutira, 62.
• Travelling sheep, mob of, 376.
• Tribal warfare, 72, 266, 305.
• Turkeys, “Wild,” 339.
• Tutira-Heru-o-Tureia track, 274.
• Tutira homestead, 382.
• Tutira in former times, 98.
• Tutira Lake, 5, 12, 13, 16.
• Tutira Station, 1.
• “Tutu Faces,” the, 36.
• “Twenty Acres” Paddock, 278, 301.
• Tylee, J. C., 119.
• Umungoiro ford, 62.
• Underground drainage system, 35.
• Vancouver, Captain, 307.
• Villers, William, 147, 161.
• Volcanic mountains, 25.
• Waiapu, 323, 345, 371, 379, 387.
• Waiapu River, 346, 347.
• Waiapu, the late Bishop of, 272, 346, 347, 363.
• Waihua, 299, 300, 346, 348.
• Waikareiti Lake, 13, 309.
• Waikaremoana, 299, 309, 370.
• Waikaremoana forest, 350.
• Waikaremoana lake, 13.
• Waikari, 299, 300, 304, 305, 356.
• Waikato River, 342.
• Waikoau, 356.
• Waikoau Bridge, 303.
• Waikoau, estuary of past and present, 200.
• Waikoau River, 4, 41, 42, 43, 62, 262.
• Waikoau valley, 294.
• Waikopiro lake, 5, 12, 13, 274.
• Waipaoa River, 348.
• Waipopopo, 351.
• Waipukurau lake, 13.
• Wairarapa, 13, 314, 315, 316, 323, 328, 334, 337, 365, 377.
• Wairoa, 299, 300, 304, 323, 340, 346, 347, 348, 350, 370, 371, 379, 387.
• Wairoa County Council, 298, 334.
• Wandering cat, 355.
• “Waterfall” Paddock, 36, 349.
• Wax-eye, the, 363.
• Weasel, the, 372.
• Wellington, 314.
• Whakawhitira farm, 319.
• Whatatutu, 299.
• Whatley, George, 274.
• Whatley's Paddock, 278.
• Whitmore, Sir George, 333.
• Wild dogs, 354.
• “Wild Horse” country, 338.
• “Wild” sheep, 118.
• Williams, Archdeacon Henry, 268, 273.
• Williams, Archdeacon Samuel, 311, 317.
• Williams, J. N., 272, 276, 315, 318, 329, 336, 340, 342, 346, 347, 379.
• Woodlands of Tutira, the, 102.
• Yellow-hammer, the, 332.
• Young, Harry, 244, 258, 274, 276, 308, 339, 357, 359, 384.
• Young, Jack, 274, 308, 384.