The Rose Historic Chapel Got Built – 1910

In 1894, a small group of Catholic nuns, known as the Sisters of Mercy, arrived at Lyttelton from the West Coast of the South Island.  It had been deemed safer to for them to travel by sea as bad weather could have made the cross country journey unsafe and unpredictable.  They were led by Mother …

Rudyard Kipling’s One Day Visit To Christchurch – 1891

Although he was in the company of a news reporter, famous British author Rudyard Kipling refused to be interviewed during his one day visit to Christchurch in 1891.  He was doing a tour (mainly of the North Island) of New Zealand so that he could write his view on our way of life. He did, …