Bush News.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5253, 23 June 1888, Page 2

Bush News.

Mr T. W. Glover, a iwrnrer in the ployment of the H-.2. A Ui a noe .for tho * suppression of tho liquor traffic, delivered a lecture in the. Presbyterian Church, Danevirke, to ft small audience. His advertised subject was "Hard Times." He commenced his address by stating that Danovirke was an exception to all tho other towns he ever met with in New Zealand, inasmuch as it appeared not to feel or realis-j what hard times is or meant, although, at the same time, not less tbaa four large and thriving hotels wero flourish - mg in their midst. He then descanted mercilessly on the evils of spending money in drink, that these hotels would at least agrogate about £4000; annually paid their owners by the people of tho district and travellers for which exenditure they had, in his opinion, received no equivalent; that all the districts in which liquor was used were deeply involved in debts, and moreover heavily burdened with mortgages and producing many loafers and idlers who were - on the look-out for work. ' After an eloquent, though rather dry but interesting peromtion in this style, he gave a more pleasing contrast, whioh was rather refreshing to the small but appreciative audience, as it tended to somewhat excite and develop, their visible faculties. Tho contrast oon- ' sisted «n his description of «; district somewhere near Auckland called Albert Land • containing about 8000 people, a place which flourished for twenty-six years without hotels, without races and raoeoouisos,' had a cemetery where never a drunkard was buried; in fact, but few were _ interred there, as people lived thereto ""■ a fine ripe old:age. At present three individnals aggregated 250 yearn another old lady got her first lesson in riding when 70; she is now 73 years, and the lecturer thought when she would reaoh 80 she could ride a steeplechaser. There was a splendid co-operative Btaro at the port, on which prosperity shone without a shadow, which had been successfully woiked for the last twenty-six years without any debt and paying- a good dividend, for during tho lost six years tltere weronoS _5 of bad debts. No loafers wore to be foilnd in Albert Land, vulgarly called by the people "Snapper Land,'- ob tho land generally was of very . poor quality. Great many attondod to snapper fishing, which frequently was their staple food, and which probably may > account for the spondid physique of the young men and women raised there, mora especially the young girls, who are five feet eight inches to six feet two inches in stature, and besides being tall and beautiful they aro also unequalled iv their mental powers. A ' Miss Edger, the young lady who recently gained the highest marks ever attained ia the British Empire, was from this wonderful region. Theso stalwart young ladies were also trained to do all sorts of fanning , and domestic work, and, said tho lecturer, raising his sonorous voice to a delightful pitch and pathos, his altitude being melodrainic,-" Oh! it would do you young men present here good to see how thesu fine and strong girls would take hold of you and whisk you round so beautifully." Great sensation among the young men. So now those young men' have made up their minds to be off at once to Albert Land. The great V aud popular rinking -3-ninn. «l-ioh seems to \v be so dangerously '!. fasouiauug, is now *^ nothing to them, who are determined to i steer straight to the whisking game lately % discovered in Albert Land.