Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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Cottage Rock
We all know Cave Rock (was once known as Cass Rock, named after Thomas Cass, a surveyor)very well; is there a Cantab out there who hasn’t climbed up its south side to look down over Sumner Beach? BUT who really noticed the smaller rock formation to its right? I know of it, I can picture …
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Second To None – William Rolleston
“He was second to none of New Zealand’s public men in learning, knowledge of literature, and administrative capacity…he showed the same soundness of judgement as in every office which he filled in the [Canterbury] Provincial Council, in the General Assembly, and in the Senate of the University, apparently without effort and with no superficial display. …
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GOVERNOR’S BAY – Sir George Grey (1812 – 1898)
As the ‘Charlotte Jane’, the Canterbury’s Association first ship sailed into Lyttelton Harbour on the morning of the 16th December 1850, another ship – named the ‘Fly’ – sat at anchor at the head of the harbour belonging to the New Zealand Governor, Sir George Grey. He, like John Robert Godley – the Founder of …
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Simple And Unpretentious – Professor G.S. Sale
“There was a simplicity, a freshness and a raciness about those early times, notwithstanding some discomfort, that made life far more enjoyable then than it is now, or ever will be again. The difference is mainly this, that in those days our life was simple and unpretentious. Now it is for the most part absurdly …
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