Contents

	Introduction	page 9
	Preface	11
	Illustrations	17
1	Youth	19
	Apprenticed to Engineering—Club Cricket—Hat Trick in First Match—Canterbury XI at Sixteen—The Fun of the 'Nineties.
2	First Cricket Tour	28
	1897 Canterbury XI Tours North Island—Hawkes Bay Gives Us a Fright—Good Match Against Auckland—A Seasick Cricket Team—Wellington Spoils Our Unbeaten Record.
3	First Overseas Tour	35
	New Zealand Team Visits Australia—Tasmania—Victoria—Dropped Catches—New South Wales—Trumper's Brilliant Batting.
4	Apprenticeship Completed	56
	Gold Dredging Makes Engineering Boom—Melbourne Club Team Tours New Zealand—Some Keen Canter bury-Otago Matches—Football Plays a Part.
5	Off to Australia	64
	The Wrench of Leaving Home—Cricket in Melbourne—A Great Club Eleven—Famous Australian Players.
6	Maclaren's English Team	81
	Australians Cricket Mad—Test Match Atmosphere—Two Great Games in Melbourne—Record Hail-storm before Match.
7	An Historic Event-Australia a Commonwealth	92
	A Dream Come True—Duke of York Opens First Parliament—Empire Joins in Celebrations—Problems and Personalities.
8	Life and Work in Melbourne	110
	Anxiety in Finding Work—Howard Smiths—Co-operation Between Companies—Shipping Office Cricket Matches—Planning Ships.
9	A Visit to Northern Queens-Land	120
	A Race up the Coast—Sugar Plantations and Sugar Mills Loading Bananas—A Chinese Opium Den.

10	Lord Hawke's Team	136
	New Zealand Tour—Attractive Batting—English Public School Style—Warner Potential All England Captain—Albert Trott Joins Team for Matches in Australia.
11	My Departure for England	154
	Cape Horn — Montevideo — Teneriffe—Plymouth—English Channel—The Thames.
12	First Days in London	160
	The East End as well as the West—Historic Buildings— Famous Places—Great Men—The Derby.
13	Cricket in England	169
	Tottenham Club—London County—Remarkable Match at Lord's—Grace and Murdoch—Crystal Palace.
14	W. G. Grace	187
	A Personal Sketch.
15	To the Far East	193
	Engineer in British Tramp—Suez and the Red Sea—Monsoon in Indian Ocean—Aground on Sumatra—Hong Kong— Cock Fighting at Manila.
16	The Return Voyage	215
	Heat in Red Sea—Straits of Messina—Stromboli in Action—Bull Fighting at Marseilles—Iron Ore From Spain—South Shields.
17	The Tyneside	228
	Claverhill Laid Up—Newcastle and Surrounding District—Shipbuilding Activity—The Coming of the Turbine—The Jovial Geordie.
18	The West Indies	234
	The Real Bay of Biscay—Madeira—St. Lucia—Grenada—Trinidad—British Guiana—Return via Le Havre.
19	More Voyages to the Indies—British Honduras	247
	Barbadoes—Antigua—Pitch Lakes of Trinidad—Loading Mahogany at Belize—Amsterdam—Antwerp and Brussels—Board of Trade Exam.
20	Canada and the St. Lawrence	265
	Pageantry at Gibraltar—Queen and Emperor—Sydney, Nova Scotia—Pack Ice in the Gulf—Quebec and Montreal—Shipboard Discussion and Argument—All Blacks' Rugby Tour—Two Famous Matches.

21	Nova Scotia and Boston	285
	Bay of Fundy—Halifax—Snow and Ice—St. John, New Brunswick—Niagara Falls—New York—the Lucania.
22	County Cricket in England	299
	Essex XI—Great County Sides—Famous English Players—Visit to Wales.
23	Life on an Oil Tanker	320
	A Typical British Tanker—Philadelphia—The Atlantic in all its Moods—A Hard Life in Winter—Farewell to the Sea.
24	Shipmates	329
	Britain's Men of the Mercantile Marine—Messroom Stories.
25	The World's Shipping	334
	Progress in Marine Engineering—Science Lends a Hand—International Rivalry—Famous Ships—The Mauretania and the Blue Riband—Mammoth Liners.
26	Last Days in Britain	345
	Edinburgh and Glasgow—Motherwell and Wishaw—Loch Lomond—Land o' Burns—The Genial Scot—Fleeting Visit to Paris—Epping Forest—Goodbye to the Old Country.
27	Homeward Bound	357
	Suevic Leaves Liverpool—Shipboard Cricket—Capetown—A Captain's Superstition—Albany—Adelaide—Melbourne— Home.
28	Early Plunket Shield Matches	363
	Auckland Leads the Way—Importation of Professionals—Improved Standards of Play—Great Public Interest—Stern Contests—Canterbury Wins at Last.
29	More Years of Strenuous Cricket	376
	Harry Trott Revisits New Zealand—Armstrong Leads First Board of Control Team—Canterbury's Turn to Stand at Bay—Otago and Wellington Challenge—Sensational Finish Against Auckland.
30	Second Cricket Tour of Australia	389
	Queensland—New South Wales—Victoria—South Australia—Fast Wickets Worry our Batsmen—Too Late in Striking Form.
31	My Last Years of Cricket	402
	Arthur Sims's Team of Giants—Auckland Again on Top—Cricket Administration—New Zealand Cricket Council—Lancaster Park Board of Control.

32	The World's Cricket	409
	How the Game Spread—Great sides of the Past—Famous Matches—A Glimpse of the Cricket of Empire Countries.
33	The Game's Greatest Players	443
	From Grace to Bradman—Spofforth Withstands Many Challenges—from Blackham to Oldfield—Vernon Royle and Syd. Gregory.
34	Commerce and Industry	454
	A Flying Start—What a Name Means—There is Sentiment in Business—Close Calls at the Bank—Up to and over the Limit—A Loyal Team.
35	The Timber Industry	469
	Selling Timber—Through Canterbury on a Bicycle—Markets Further Afield—We Begin Sawmilling—Australia takes Part of the Output—Many Visits Across the Tasman.
36	Ships and Shipping	486
	Opouri, Orepuki, Opua—Wreck of the Opouri—The Story of the Opihi—Romantic Career of New Zealand Tramp Steamer—Extraordinary Troubles Develop—Crew Goes on Strike in Foreign Port.
37	Port Craig	508
	Venture and Adventure—Great Expectations—Tragic Happenings—Anxieties—Hopes Revived—Then Disaster.
38	Sawmilling on the West Coast	531
	Another Contest for Bush—Same Early Struggle—The Industry in Difficult Times—Combined Effort—An Uphill Fight—Devastating Fire—We Rebuild the Mills—Success Again—Coaching Accident in Otira Gorge.
39	Railways Board and Personal Anecdotes	548
	A Great Government Department—Valuable Experience—Glimpses into the Past—Sir George Grey—Golf and Cricket Stories—Humour of the Links and the Playing Field.
40	The End of the Innings	556
	Index of Cricketers	559
	Index of Persons and Places	564

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