IN THE ANTIPODES AN ANGLER'S SKETCHES IN TASMANIA AND NEW ZEALAND BY WILLIAM SENIOR ("RED SPINNER") 66 AUTHOR OF "BY STREAM AND SEA," WATERSIDE SKETCHES," "Oh monstrous! But one halfpennyworth of bread to this PREFACE. S47 WITH the exception of two chapters, portions of which have appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine, these sketches will, I believe, be new to English readers, though they are to some extent enlarged and rearranged from Notes from Tasmania published in The Week, and from Notes from New Zealand published in the Queenslander-both weekly journals issuing in Brisbane. Hereby, therefore, I tender to the several proprietors hearty thanks for permission, cheerfully given, to unearth produce which they might otherwise have padlocked in their own garners. Taking it for granted that Tasmania and New Zealand are in the main well known to the ordinary reader, I have not pretended to write of other than the particular localities I visited; and I am well aware that these did not comprise many-from a scenepainter's standpoint-famous places in those islands. W. S. BRISBANE, May Day, 1879. a 3 M311932 |