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Introduction
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Preface
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Illustrations
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Youth
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Apprenticed to Engineering—Club Cricket—Hat Trick in First Match—Canterbury XI at Sixteen—The Fun of the 'Nineties. |
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First Cricket Tour
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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. |
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First Overseas Tour
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New Zealand Team Visits Australia—Tasmania—Victoria—Dropped Catches—New South Wales—Trumper's Brilliant Batting. |
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Apprenticeship Completed
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56
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Gold Dredging Makes Engineering Boom—Melbourne Club Team Tours New Zealand—Some Keen Canter bury-Otago Matches—Football Plays a Part. |
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Off to Australia
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The Wrench of Leaving Home—Cricket in Melbourne—A Great Club Eleven—Famous Australian Players. |
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Maclaren's English Team
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81
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Australians Cricket Mad—Test Match Atmosphere—Two Great Games in Melbourne—Record Hail-storm before Match. |
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An Historic Event-Australia a Commonwealth
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92
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A Dream Come True—Duke of York Opens First Parliament—Empire Joins in Celebrations—Problems and Personalities. |
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Life and Work in Melbourne
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110
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Anxiety in Finding Work—Howard Smiths—Co-operation Between Companies—Shipping Office Cricket Matches—Planning Ships. |
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A Visit to Northern Queens-Land
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120
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A Race up the Coast—Sugar Plantations and Sugar Mills Loading Bananas—A Chinese Opium Den. |
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Lord Hawke's Team
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136
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New Zealand Tour—Attractive Batting—English Public School Style—Warner Potential All England Captain—Albert Trott Joins Team for Matches in Australia. |
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My Departure for England
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154
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Cape Horn — Montevideo — Teneriffe—Plymouth—English Channel—The Thames. |
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First Days in London
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160
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The East End as well as the West—Historic Buildings— Famous Places—Great Men—The Derby. |
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Cricket in England
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169
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Tottenham Club—London County—Remarkable Match at Lord's—Grace and Murdoch—Crystal Palace. |
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W. G. Grace
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A Personal Sketch. |
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To the Far East
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193
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Engineer in British Tramp—Suez and the Red Sea—Monsoon in Indian Ocean—Aground on Sumatra—Hong Kong— Cock Fighting at Manila. |
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The Return Voyage
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215
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Heat in Red Sea—Straits of Messina—Stromboli in Action—Bull Fighting at Marseilles—Iron Ore From Spain—South Shields. |
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The Tyneside
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228
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Claverhill Laid Up—Newcastle and Surrounding District—Shipbuilding Activity—The Coming of the Turbine—The Jovial Geordie. |
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The West Indies
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234
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The Real Bay of Biscay—Madeira—St. Lucia—Grenada—Trinidad—British Guiana—Return via Le Havre. |
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More Voyages to the Indies—British Honduras
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247
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Barbadoes—Antigua—Pitch Lakes of Trinidad—Loading Mahogany at Belize—Amsterdam—Antwerp and Brussels—Board of Trade Exam. |
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Canada and the St. Lawrence
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265
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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. |
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Nova Scotia and Boston
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285
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Bay of Fundy—Halifax—Snow and Ice—St. John, New Brunswick—Niagara Falls—New York—the
Lucania.
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County Cricket in England
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299
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Essex XI—Great County Sides—Famous English Players—Visit to Wales. |
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Life on an Oil Tanker
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320
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A Typical British Tanker—Philadelphia—The Atlantic in all its Moods—A Hard Life in Winter—Farewell to the Sea. |
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Shipmates
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Britain's Men of the Mercantile Marine—Messroom Stories. |
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The World's Shipping
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Progress in Marine Engineering—Science Lends a Hand—International Rivalry—Famous Ships—The
Mauretania and the Blue Riband—Mammoth Liners. |
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Last Days in Britain
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345
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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. |
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Homeward Bound
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357
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Suevic Leaves Liverpool—Shipboard Cricket—Capetown—A Captain's Superstition—Albany—Adelaide—Melbourne— Home. |
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Early Plunket Shield Matches
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363
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Auckland Leads the Way—Importation of Professionals—Improved Standards of Play—Great Public Interest—Stern Contests—Canterbury Wins at Last. |
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More Years of Strenuous Cricket
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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. |
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Second Cricket Tour of Australia
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389
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Queensland—New South Wales—Victoria—South Australia—Fast Wickets Worry our Batsmen—Too Late in Striking Form. |
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My Last Years of Cricket
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402
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Arthur Sims's Team of Giants—Auckland Again on Top—Cricket Administration—New Zealand Cricket Council—Lancaster Park Board of Control. |
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The World's Cricket
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409
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How the Game Spread—Great sides of the Past—Famous Matches—A Glimpse of the Cricket of Empire Countries. |
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The Game's Greatest Players
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443
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From Grace to Bradman—Spofforth Withstands Many Challenges—from Blackham to Oldfield—Vernon Royle and Syd. Gregory. |
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Commerce and Industry
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454
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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. |
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The Timber Industry
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Selling Timber—Through Canterbury on a Bicycle—Markets Further Afield—We Begin Sawmilling—Australia takes Part of the Output—Many Visits Across the Tasman. |
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Ships and Shipping
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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. |
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Port Craig
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Venture and Adventure—Great Expectations—Tragic Happenings—Anxieties—Hopes Revived—Then Disaster. |
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Sawmilling on the West Coast
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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. |
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Railways Board and Personal Anecdotes
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548
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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. |
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The End of the Innings
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Index of Cricketers
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559
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Index of Persons and Places
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564
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