CAPTAIN BARRY AT HOME.

Dunstan Times, Issue 896, 20 June 1879, Page 3

CAPTAIN BARRY AT HOME.

(The Cambridge Express.) “On Tuesday April Bth. last, an audience was entertained in the Lecture-hall by Capt. W. J. Barry (a native of Melbourne, Combs.) on his recounting his thirty years’ experience of Colonial Lite in New South Wales and How Zealand. The lecture detailed much personal adventure of Captain Barry in the early history of colonization amongst the convict settlements of New South Wales, and 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 summarize the lecture, wo find the Captain shipwrecked in 1833 on the Coast of New Holland, and after cards in the hauls of the notorious bushrangers, the bold Jack Donoghue and Jackey lackey: and then experiences soma early whaling life, and he tells us what he saw on the Cannibal Islands of tlic New Hebrides, and the rescue of the emigrants in the Modoc Pass, California ; and then we have his arrival in Hew Zealand with horses, and then his four years’ mayoralty in Cromwell. Ho then dilates on the advantages of tire colonies 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 ho hopes to place in the hands of his sub scribors (5,800 of which he has obtained in New Zealand ; 150 ho obtained on his voyage to England, and about 50 on the night of his lecture here) in the course of about three months, anil the price of which will be about 3s. 01. each in England, an 1 the title will bo “ Ups and Downs of Captain Win, J. Barry’s Fifty Years’ Colonial Life, New S uith Wales, Now Zealand, California, and Queensland. ”