Ashburton,

an addhress is prisinted to us, expressin' loyalty, etcethra, an' we rush over to the Town Hall, where a very nate ray past greets our oilfactory narves. Afther breakfast we inspect a fine Bullock that tuk first prize at the Corporation Show a few days before. We jump aboord again, an' rush across the plains to Timaru. As we come close to this important say-port, Misther Wakefield points out the breakwather to us in the distance through the tiliscope av idayality. Arrivin' at