CAPTAIN BARRY AT HOME.

Temuka Leader, Issue 165, 30 July 1879, Page 3

CAPTAIN BARRY AT HOME.

££ On Tuesday, April Bth, last an audience was entertained in the Lecture Hall by Capt. W. J. Ban-y (a native of Melbourne, Cambs.) on his recounting his fifty years’ experience of Colonial Life in New South Wales and New Zealand. The lecture detailed much personal adventure of Captain Barry in the early history of colonization amongst the convict settlements of New South Wales end the early periods of New Zealand goldfields enterprise, and the lecture being delivered in a plain unvarnished manner, made it, no doubt, the more reliable to the audience. To summarise we find the Captain shipwrecked in 1838 on the Coast of New Holland, and afterwards in the hands of the notorious bushrangers, the bold Jack Donoghue and Jackey Jockey : and then experiences some early whaling life and he tells ns what he saw on the New Hebrides, and the rescue of the emigrants in the Modoc Pass California ; and then we have his arrival in New Zealand with horses and then his tour years Mayoralty in Cromwell. He then dilates on the advantages of the colony as fields for emigration to the rising generation of this country, and finally the Captain gives an outline of his new book which he is about to publish on the colonies and which he hopes to place in the hands of his subscribers, 5,800 of which he obtained in New Zealand, 150 he obtained on his voyage to England and about 50 on the night of his lecture, in the course of. thi\je months, and the price of which will be about 3s 6d. each in England and the title will be ££ Ups and downs of captain Win. J. Barry’s Fifty Years’ Colonial Life in New South Wales, New Zealand, California ami Queensland; —Cambridge Express.