TAPANUI.

Otago Witness, Issue 1754, 4 July 1885, Page 13

TAPANUI.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) July 1. G rape C ulture.— The Tapanui Courier reports, that Mr W. Dale has taken tho miatory in grape culture in the district, he having engaged Mr.W. Hay to erect a. vinery. Success to him. Nrcw' Zkalaxd not so Bad. — Tlv6 local paper publishes a letter received from Mr James Lyons (late of Tapanui) giving his impressions of America— his native country > He; is not lavourably impressed with the present and future of things there. He says that there are üboiit 100 me"n idle to every one that has work, and adds that " the country is Overrun with pauper emigrants from Europe. Theie are about tiO.OuO lauding every month, coming from Germany and Russia — to say nothing of Great Britain— and thousands of starving niggevo from down South, the sauciest tellows in thiti world, employed as domestic, servants in every house. By Lhe appearance of things in the Western Slates, I "think the Chinamen will rule supreme before many years. They were the only men I sawworking on the railways for 1200 miles east of 'Frisco, and every place you look at, farm or garden, there is 'John,'" and a deal saucier fellow than you have him in New Zealand." America takes the lead in " big things," and our depression is a pigmy in comparison with this. I a*n in leoaipt of a letter trom Victoria containing the information that we are much better off here. Kailway hands there get, Is a day, and at the place from which my friend writes— a busy country station— the stationmaster leceives the munificent sum of 7s. a day, making a "genteel" salary ot two guineas per week, on which a man could be as shabby as he liked, and more so. What would New Zealand farmerb say to eight, bushels, of grain to the acre— the average yield in a large district? New Zealand is not so bad alter