AS OTHERS SEE US.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2279, 22 September 1899, Page 7

AS OTHERS SEE US.

Mr Joseph Mulius, the father of English Hood Teinplary and a n.itive if Worcester, England, is on a tour of the world. Alter visiting the m eater portion of this colony he last week arrived at Munedin wheie he held meetings and dealt .iltii lae vaiious subjects connic-ted with Teiiipeiance.

j The ' Evening Star ' gives a report of an interesting interview, during which Mr Malms freely expressed his o[»ihion, giving the icsmts of hi.- obsenations in die countiies passed through by liim. A very prompt ami hearty answer ius rctiwiu.il tu the orthodox question, " Wh.'t do you think of New Zealand?"' Mr-Maims made the fallowing reniai!;.«: —"Ms iin pre- aiot sof the colony ate of the happiest possible kind. I ha' e visite't Amend iiftecti times; I have travi led Kun pe lrom tlie North to the Mediterranean : I have visited other countries; hut 1 have never felt so much among my own people as I do here. The New Zealanders appear to lie physically well Set up, and to lie in a condition of contented prosperity. Your country is evidently intenoed by Nature to be one of the food suppliers for other parts of the world, and the climate is wonderful, though it makes a man distinguish the variations when he has to hnniedly cover I,OUU miles in latitude. I iin.t that the people are very proud of their coin trv —that is a good sign ; and another indication of a high order of intelligence that everybody seems to read the papers and to take a.i interest in local public affairs. I should say that New Zealand probably produc s mule newspapers, that is to the percentage of population, than any other land 1 have visited. Since I have been here I have h-artied with intense interest of your advanced legislation. We hear a little about this in England, but it is only after coming to the colony that one is able to fully appreeiai tiie legislation that his focißS"d, so to speak, oneV tde is of what is po?siole to a ut- pie who are pally in oarne.-t. Really, if one summarises the democratic legislation ■if the colon*, it >ecms to have realised what politic 1 fen.liners in oilier lands still reeard as i.1e.l- t" !••• attained in the course ol fifty or a u..i.'lr- d years hence."