AN AMERICAN ON NEW ZEALAND PROSPECTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6821, 27 September 1883, Page 6

AN AMERICAN ON NEW ZEALAND PROSPECTS.

PURCHASE OF HIGH-BRED STOCK, j A raw days ago we stated that Mr. Rollin j P. Siure, importer, breeder, and exporter of thoroughbred stock, San T?rancisco, had come to Auckland to see the thoroughbred stock of New 1 Zealand, with the view of selecting some animals if he found any suitable. Mr. Saxe now writes giving information of his proceedings :— " Sir, I have selected from the New Zealand Stud and Pedigree Stock Company 44 Hereford cattle, 10 Leicester and 10 Lincoln sheep, which I take to America per City of Sydney. Having travelled over parts of New Zealand since my arrival, I must confess an agreeable surprise. We Americans have always considered New Zealand as a small island down in the south-west part of the world, where savages abound and no Saxons. I cannot understand why you have not thousands of young men from England here to invest capital, also the labouring class, who can get treble and quadruple the wages they do at home. Surely the resources of New Zealand warrant it. Your climate cannot be excelled, your soil is rich, your cereals of the best, your wool and mutton superior, and even the manufacture of flax would make a fortune to any enterprising, go-ahead man. I have never seen a more beautiful harbour than Auckland, and nature his done everything for location of beautiful homes. The beauty of your country, your great resources, and the hospitality of your people .1 shall never forget; and were it not that we Yankees have plenty of land to the acre (and a lien on Mexico), with plenty of push and perseverance, I could be pleased to become a New Zsalander. In short, I like your country and your people. My business being live stock, I see the lack you are under of mules and trotting horses. I believe mules hardier, more active, less expensive to keep, than overgrown grade Clydesdales, besides they have better feet and are untiring. For a fine carriage horse, hack horse, or saddle horse, our American trotter has no equal, having les3 weight than a draught horse, and more bone than a thoroughbred. I believe the breeding of mules and American trotters, or roadsters, would be highly profitable, and I would prefer a grade Worman or Percheron horse with clean legs and good feet to your Clydesdales. Should this, my first, trip to New Zealand prove a success, and our people like Mew Zealand Herefords as well as English Hereforde, I shall come again. I am mucli pleased with the stock of the New Zealand Stock and Pedigree Company, and with your energetic citizen Mr. Thos. Morrin, who is Vice-President, also Mr. Every Maclean, your famoua Hereford breeder, and Mr. G. Maclean, of Cranston. By the way, Mr. G. Maclean has constructed the stock-yards of the company, and it is wonderful to see the manner invented to assort and brand stock. It is constructed on the best principles, and is a highly labour-saving institution. I visited Cambridge, Fen Court, and Morrinsville, and rode some 200 miles through the country. I believe Morrinsvilie is bound to be a large place, situated as it is so near the goldfields, and the railroad passing through it.