The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 78
Invercargill
Invercargill
Hotels.—Southland Club and Albion.
Club.—Invercargill.
Travellers from Australia who arrive at the Bluff proceed to Invercargill, which is 18 miles distant.
From here the tourist can visit the Cold Lakes, either by train to Kingston, and thence as already described to the Southern Lakes, or he inay go by train to Lumsden, or to Manapouri and Te Anau; or to Manapouri via Otautau by special arrangement for vehicle. Invercargill is a prosperous town the populatiou of which is about 10,000. It boasts the widest streets in New Zealand, and it is the chief town of an extensive agricultural and pastoral district.
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