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Chapter XXIV.
DUNEDIN.
“A wild sea-rover, lined and grey,
To me long since a story told
Of meadows far and far away
That blossom into flowers of gold;
Of streams that were long lullabies
For ever flowing thro’ the vales,
Kissed by a low and loving wind
To music like the nightingale’s.
And I who listened felt the spell
Take hold of manhood on its throne,
And, careless then of Heaven or Hell,
Took ship unto the vast Unknown.”
The capital of Otago is about the same age as Christchurch, and just as Mr Godley’s Association desired to keep their colony purely Church of England so the Scottish Company that founded Dunedin meant to keep it entirely Presbyterian, but both of these plans proved impossible. The inrush of miners from other parts of New Zealand, Australia, and America in 1861, that followed the discovery of gold in Otago, while it greatly advanced the development of the
