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Hector, `Handbook to New Zealand,' p. 204: The selector in a timbered country, without troubling himselfabout cause and effect, is aware that if he destroys the treethe grass will grow, and therefore he `ring-barks' his timber. 1: You should see him with Commodore Jack out in the teethof the `hard glad weather,' when a southerly buster sweepsup the harbour. He was grey and grizzled, but well fed,and he wore a Cardigan jacket, brown moleskin trousers, blucherboots, and socks, all of which were mended with rough patches.

In each case it meant the white mist precedinga shower, to which a flock of sheep bore a strong resemblance. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' p. name given toChoeropus castanotis, Gray, an animal about the sizeof a rabbit, belonging to the family Peramelidae,which includes all the bandicoots. Pimlico, n.