Mesopotamia — (Runs 214, 242, 338, 348, 353, 367, 375, 376, 387, and 402)
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Mesopotamia occupies the country between the Rangitata River and the top of the Two Thumb Range, from Forest Creek upwards, and for many years included the Cloudy Peak forks of the Rangitata , which is now part of Stronechrubie. Nine people out of ten will tell you that it was first taken up by S...
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The Desert Station — (Run 39)
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The Desert Station was the next above Sandy Knolls on the Waimakariri . The eastern boundary ran in a line from the river past the present Aylesbury Railway Station, the western boundary ran through Kirwee. It was taken up in August, 1851, by Muter and Francis and contained about eighteen thousan...
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Homebush — (Run 41) - The Early Canterbury Runs: Containing the First, Second and Third (new) Series
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Homebush, the station above Racecourse Hill, ran from the Waimakariri to the Selwyn , the Racecourse Hill and Waireka boundaries being on the plain a mile or so in front of the downs. It took in Gorge Hill and ran back to Russell's Flat and the Pig Saddle, page 32 and contained thirty-three thous...
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The Sand Hills Run — (Runs 9, 72 and 239)
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This station took in the country on the coast between the Styx River and the Estuary. William Derisley Wood took up Run 9 on 31st January, 1852, and he and his partner and brother-in-law, William Chisnall, took up Run 72 on 14th January, 1853. In September, 1853, Wood and Chisnall sold the statio...
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Worlingham — (Run 119, and later 78) - Chapter 3 — Plains Stations North Of The Waimakariri
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Worlingham was the next station on the Waimakariri above Eyrewell. Run 119, fourteen thousand five hundred acres of country on the Waimakariri , was taken up in August, 1853, by Thomas Kesteven, who kept it until 1867 when he sold it to Thomas James Curtis. Kesteven was born in London in 1808. Be...
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Burnt Hill — (Run 1, and afterwards 135) - Chapter 3 — Plains Stations North Of The Waimakariri
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Burnt Hill ran from the Waimakariri to the Eyre and was bounded on the east by Dagnam and the page 56 Warren. It was taken up by Joseph Pearson in October, 1851. Although some twenty runs had been taken up before it, it was numbered 1 in the old run lists, because the original Run 1, which J. C. ...
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Ringwood — (Run 97) - The Early Canterbury Runs: Containing the First, Second and Third (new) Series
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Ringwood was a run of under ten thousand acres lying in the fork of the Ashburton. It came down almost to the present railway bridge. It was taken up by George Williamson Hall in August, 1853. Hall sold it, I think in 1863, to Charles H. Greenstreet, who carried 6500 sheep there in 1867. In the o...
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Longbeach — (Run 45 N.Z.R., afterwards re-numbered Run 247 under the Canterbury Regulations; and 51 N.Z.R.)
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The country south of the Ashburton was outside the Canterbury Block and for a few years the General Government administered it under a Commissioner of Crown Lands of their own in Christchurch . The Government let and sold land under different conditions and at different prices from the Canterbury...
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Cracroft — (Run 42 N.Z.R., re-numbered 499 in May, 1864)
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Cracroft took in the country between the Hinds and Rangitata above Maronan. On the west it was bounded by Shepherd's Bush. Shepherd's Bush, Valetta, Anama and Cracroft all met at a point near Mayfield. Run 499 contained fifty-four thousand acres and was the second largest single run in Canterbury...
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Malvern Hills — (Run 24) - Chapter 4 — Plains Stations Between the Selwyn and Rakaia Rivers
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Between the Selwyn and Rakaia lay some of the earliest runs selected by the Canterbury Pilgrims. On the foothills south of the Selwyn , opposite Homebush, Sir Thomas Tancred and his brother, Henry John Tancred, took up ten thousand acres in Henry Tancred's name in January, 1852. The eastern bound...
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The Name - Stronechrubie — (Originally Forest Hill and now called Erewhon ) — (Runs 374, 384, 395-6-7)
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Stronechrubie is the Gaelic for 'crooked nose' or 'crooked spur,' and McRae named the station partly after his birthplace in Scotland , and partly after a crooked spur which runs down to the Clyde near the original homestead. Some later owner has changed the name of the station to Erewhon, which ...
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Blue Cliffs — (Run 31)
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Blue Cliffs, originally supposed to be of thirty-five thousand acres, ran up the south side of the Otaio River from a point just below Hendry's Road, and was bounded on the east by a line from there to a point on the Black Line Road near the present site of the Teschemaker School. The Findlay Dow...
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Acton — (Runs 87 to 91, and 128, 129 and 132)
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The Rakaia river delayed occupation of the country to the south of it for a year or more. A few runs were applied for in 1852 but most of them were abandoned again, and generally speaking, the runs there were not allotted until 1853. I do not think any station between the Rakaia and Rangitata was...
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Camla — (Runs 46, 47 and 94) - Chapter 4 — Plains Stations Between the Selwyn and Rakaia Rivers
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Camla lay on the Selwyn below Haldon, which also bounded it towards the Rakaia. It ran down the Selwyn to about the present main south railway and contained nearly thirty thousand acres. Runs 46 and 47 which were the lower or eastern part of Camla were allotted to Rowland Campion on 11th June, 18...
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Gebbie's Run — (Runs 12 and 431) - Chapter 12 — Stations On Banks Peninsula — (This chapter was written in 1945)
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This is another station started before the Canterbury settlement. It lay between the Purau, Kaituna, and Ahuriri stations and ran right back to Lake Ellesmere . The homestead was on the flat at the head of Lyttelton Harbour, where Teddington is now, and where Captain Thomas at one time proposed t...
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Mt. Pleasant - The Early Canterbury Runs: Containing the First, Second and Third (new) Series
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Mt. Pleasant was not taken up in one or two large pastoral runs as the other Canterbury stations were, but was made up of a number of small Class I and Class II runs, which were bought and united by Major Alfred Hornbrook in the first few years of the Settlement, so if I had been consistent, I sh...
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Opuha Gorge — (Run 30, N.Z.R., later 548)
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This run of twenty-two thousand acres, between the Kakahu and Fourpeaks Stations, was first allotted as Run 47 by Colonel Campbell to William Hornbrook, on 1st November, 1853. William Hornbrook was a brother of Major Hornbrook, and like him had served in the Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil Wa...
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Homebrook — (Run 100) - Chapter 4 — Plains Stations Between the Selwyn and Rakaia Rivers
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This run of ten thousand acres was taken up on 1st August, 1853, by Thomas Rowley, who transferred it almost at once to a man named Twiggs, of whom I cannot find out anything except that he was drowned in the Rakaia in the very early days and that his representatives sold the station to Charles J...
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Price's Station — (Runs 79 and 432) - Chapter 4 — Plains Stations Between the Selwyn and Rakaia Rivers
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Run 79, of five thousand acres, lay along the sea coast between the lake mouth and Homebrook. It was page 93 taken up by Joseph Price in May, 1853. Price started a dairy station and by March, 1855, he was milking thirty cows and making sixty pounds of cheese a day. In March, 1862, Price took up R...
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Benmore — (Runs 230 and 258)
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Benmore lies on the south side of Porter's Pass and runs back to Lake Lyndon. It joins both Highpeak and the Black Hills of Snowdon. The homestead, of which almost all trace has disappeared now, was on the old Porter's Pass Road in the gully just below the ruins of the old hotel, near where the n...
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