A NEW ZEALANDER ON HIS TRAVELS. (Auckland Herald.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7269, 17 October 1891, Page 1

A NEW ZEALANDER ON HIS TRAVELS. (Auckland Hera ld.)

Mr John Robs, of Sargood, Son, and Ewen, white in the United fltatei, had the opportunity of meeting many oomn meroial meo who we«-e glad to get alt the information possible as to thii colony and its resources, and be was able to answer many of tbeir enquiries. Ho w*b very much Htruck whea in San Franoisoo with the lighting of the oily, whioh was by the eleotrio light. The effeot was beautiful, the o'ty at night being lighted up throughout with a splendor whioh ga« could not ia any way approach. With regard to the mail routes, his impression is that the Vancouver route will ultimately como to the front, unless swifter steamers — say, 16- knot vessels— >aro put on the line. In Silt Lake Oity he had a look over the boot and olothing factories of the Zioa Oo-oporntire Store, a Mormon business established where the latett maohinery was employed, and an enormous turnover done, though the Gontilos were fast enoroaohing upon the domain ol tho follower* of Brigham Young. At Chioago, the most wonderfully progressive oity of the Great liepublio, large bodies of workmen were engaged in getting the ground ready for the World's Fair. In New York he was struok by the predominance of tho Jewish elementi The passage aoroBS tho Atlantic from New York was made in the b.b. Teutonic, one of the greyhounds of the Atltint'o, a superb vessel reeling off her 500 miles a day, and carrying 1700 passongefa and orew, and whioh bad since broken the record. Pamphlets and leaflets, etc., in profusion were ecattered about on board gratuitously, giving full information concerning America ; bat although there were 700 steerage paeeengora— many of them British workmen homeward bound, with money they had earned in tho Btatee — there was not a einglo fly loaf in oirculnt'on to ehoir that New Zealand existed, or was a suitable place for working men or Raiall farmers to emigrate to. During his slay in the Mother Country Mr Rosa was impressed with the great improvement in the sooial condition of the working classes since his last visit, and especially bo in Scotland. Both in town and ooantry the working olassei were better puid, houBcd, clothed, fod, and educated, and a marked change for the bettor wai noticeable. There *«• still great ignorance about colonial matters and the colonies but tho general feeling in financial oro'.tn was averse to any more oolonial borrowing.