November 12 Tuesday – Four miles outside of Oamaru, Sam lunched with John F. Miles, probably on his sheep ranch. Afterward Sam and Carlyle G. Smythe traveled the 150 miles to Christchurch, N.Z., “the city of the plains.” He was met by President of the Savage Club and Savages; and by Joseph J. Kinsey and family, and Mr. A.J. Peacock. He reunited with Livy and Clara at the fashionable Coker’s Hotel. He was interviewed at the hotel by a “special reporter” from Lyttelton Times; and Press (Christchurch), which were both published Nov. 13.

Clara Clemens wrote to her cousin Samuel Moffett that she was reading Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life.

J.C. McLauchlan wrote asking to borrow $25 from Sam, who wrote on the envelope, “Begging letter” [MTP].

Sam’s notebook entry for the date contains an old nursery rhyme verse:

When the south wind doth blow, / Then we shall have snow; And what will the robin then do, poor thing [Gribben 511; NB 34 TS 39].