NEW ZEALAND THE HEALTH RESORT OF AUSTRALIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 8, 10 January 1890, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND THE HEALTH RESORT OF AUSTRALIA.

Mofis. Baoul, son of the distinguished botanist of thai.name who died many years ago, is bringing out a French illustrated cdi tion of Mrs Hetley's " Wild Flowers of Now Zealand," in the joint names of himself and that lady, ■ There is a oharming actress on the London 9iag», says New York Truth, whose husband mysteriously disappeared seven or eight ypar? ago. Oa the first day of rvery month, from his disappearance up to date, the lady received an envelope containing £50 and a card i from her husband: "I am alive and well. God bless-you." Only that and nothing more. Tho last envelope reoeived contained £100 and a card : " Hereafter I will send you £100 n month until wo meet. I am alive and well. God bless you." From the date of the disappeartnoe his wif«, relations, friends, etc, never knew the whereabouts of the man, and the mys'ery is a? deep to-day as it was eight . yeara ago.

The ArOU», in a leader on New Zealand as a health resort, says :— lf England wants something and' wins something from Switzerland, how much more does Australia want from New Zealand t The heat whioh in all our great cities begins to scorch and wither, to relax and to enervate now, is practically unknown in Northern Europe. It drives ug out of our cities. Melbourne alone turns out her thousands every week,, and New Zealand might, if she saw her advantage in it, receive hundreds of them, where now she hardly gets ten, She has everything to offer us, which the uplands oi Europe provide for England tmd for the South. She would give to our youth tbat early lesson of the delight of walking with nature which never wholly passes away ; to our weary men and women a tonio and a reßt suoh as the they seek in vain throughout tha broad Australian continent ; letting, indeed, the strong spirit of her mountains breathe on the ardent genius, the passion and the fire of our youth. She might help to generate and mould and impress the Australasian raoe, whioh should ask no Indulgence when plaoed in competition o! any sort with th* finest people ot the world, and not in a physioal sense alone, The?a is a very great mission before New Zealand, Here is a broad Australasian duty whioh it is her privilege to ulfil, and it may not: perhaps be altogether out of place to point out how its fulfilment might bring a litilo present and praoliobl and appreciable advantage of an early sorr. The thousands who from the four great cities of our ocaaS would, if they could, quaff a draught of the Now Jseal-»nd elixir, would not travel aa beggar*" or na mean folks. They would give nothing equivalent of course to tho . grott and Eeimarient gifts receive!!, but; Brill a f-jw ondreda oi thousands of Australia's sovereigns might not be unacceptable in the' South. Island, which is not too well supplied in that sort. ' But whether it be more blessed to give than to receive, it is certain that neither. can be accomplished without some effort, aSd right efforts will only follow a fair, understanding. New Zealand must understand what she really haa to give, and what Australia will gladly receive ; and though it may possibly seem unkind just 'now, it is necessary to say that cities and villages, and fair fields and pastures new, and even the weird and wonderful treasure houses in the North are not, and will not be, moat sought after. Bub if

New Zealand can in eaoh year ice Australia's cap of life and bone, the benefit will be great ndeed in the. growth of commerce and industry. We must all rejoice that they strengthen Rnd arm the hands which we trust will be. for ever knit in broherhood, but the gift and the pace of the snow land and the cold lake land have yet to be given and received, and ii seems that New Zealand's share in the giving, whioh is yet to fee accomplished, is in .the' clearing oi the way, and perfeoting tbo means of conveyance. The Union Stetim $hip Co. have fairly bridged the oc^au. In three days twelve hours the passengers can be taken from the Queen's Wharf to the Bluff ; the New Zealand train . cornea alongside the steamer there, and fibould in sis hows more land the traveller on the shore of Lake Wakatipu, the very heart of the country wherein the elizir is found, and then there should be no jnore " doing" or hurrying. Withina radius of 70., miles are ell the lakes, the great glaciers, the virgin, peaks, the fiordß— all, indeed,, that the. Australian traveller desires . and requires to help him to drink of the "water, of rthat one supreme oasis in the vast Anßtralasian desert. And never mind the cities, the oasis may indeed come to feed