1 n I 8 Lo\ i: of — 1 iwas a true lover of tlio country and of the beauties of nature, though, of course, he had very little lei.suns to indulge tni.' taste. At Jiohvood lie had a C"ppice wood of about thiitv or forty acres, with many l,ne timbered ti.es seattered throughout-it ; and lit;* shov.-'d Lis s]..i!| in landscape gardening, by carrying ]iaths tlirou-h it in ■such a way as to bring the Jim;.-1 lues int.. full view. Ollcn have 1 seta him and JjOid (Jrciiville at work in this wood, each with an axe in his hand, happy and as busy as possible, it was much to (in nville's h"iiour that he never tlattcicd l'ilt, which J cannot say ol many others ot liis associates. Thev disagreed in their opinions upon parliamentary reform, of which (ircnville was a decided A ticliv»s tf IVilhrJ'brvt,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 325, 26 November 1864, Page 6
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