The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Other Canterbury settlers , like John Barton Acland and Charles George Tripp , had been pushing into the hill country of the west in search of suitable sheep country . By 1856 the outlying ranges had been penetrated , and the Mackenzie ...
Other Canterbury settlers , like John Barton Acland and Charles George Tripp , had been pushing into the hill country of the west in search of suitable sheep country . By 1856 the outlying ranges had been penetrated , and the Mackenzie ...
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In June of the same year , Howitt , while engaged in cutting a track over the great dividing range from Canterbury down the Taramakau to the West Coast , was drowned in Lake Brunner with two of his party .
In June of the same year , Howitt , while engaged in cutting a track over the great dividing range from Canterbury down the Taramakau to the West Coast , was drowned in Lake Brunner with two of his party .
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89 OTAGO AND CANTERBURY Wycliffe from Gravesend and the Philip Laing from Greenock . The progress made by the Association in selling land was very slow : less than 15,000 acres had been disposed of by the end of 1852.
89 OTAGO AND CANTERBURY Wycliffe from Gravesend and the Philip Laing from Greenock . The progress made by the Association in selling land was very slow : less than 15,000 acres had been disposed of by the end of 1852.
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