Invercargill

Invercargill, a town in the province of Otago, New Zealand, capital of the county of Southland, stands on an estuary called the New River Harbour, 139 miles by rail SW. of Dunedin. It is regularly built, with fine wide streets, gas, and steam trams, and is unusually well provided with public parks. Besides the government buildings and schools and churches, it possesses an excellent athenæum and a hospital. There are some thirty sawmills in and around the town, besides foundries, steam flour-mills, breweries, and manufactures of boots, bacon, cordials, &c. There are extensive meat-freezing works at the mouth of the estuary, and much Southland mutton is now sent to England; other exports from Invercargill are wool, grain, cheese, and timber. Pop. 7962.