AN AMERICAN VIEW OF NEW ZEALAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 956, 21 November 1879, Page 2

AN AMERICAN VIEW OF NEW ZEALAND.

The Scientific American having been asked to solicit American inventors, manufacturers, and other friends of industrial education, to send specimens or models of natural products, mechanical inventions, <fee, the Canterbury College, m connection with which it is proposed to establish a technical science museum, warmly supports the proposal, and m so doing says of New Zealand : — New Zealand is one of the most worthy and promising of the younger members of the Greater Britain made up of all the English speaking countries of the globe. As the youngest, too, among the rising nations allied to us by blood, and bound to us by rapidlystrengthening commercialties, New Zealand is m every way deserving of all the educational assistance we can give her ; and it can be safely promised that her people will be duly grateful for

anything we may do m this way. Theffl* is a lower (possibly to some a more cogent) reason why this request (should be granted ;it will pay commercially. Already New Zealand is one of the most inviting of foreign markets for American manufactured products ; and there is noway by which American manufactures can place their machines, implements, and other wares more effectually before the New Zealanders than by having them thus favorably placed on perpetual exhibition at the chief"* centre of intelligence m. 1 ' the colony. It is not yet forty years since ' the first white settlers landed m NewZealand, and already the population numbers something likd half a million of wide awake, active, and intelligent English' people; THet Islands <HaveTU area of over .100,000 square miles, a trifle v lew than that of Great Brit»n~an<P Ireland, and something more than twice that of the State of New York. About 12,000,000 acres are fit for agriculture : 50,000,000 acres are suitable for pasturage; 20,000,000 are forest lands. The climate is much like that of En£. land, but more equable. There is more fl sunshine and a similiar range of tiMperature. The annual mean for the North Island is 57 deg., that of thW South Island is 52 deg. The mean teni> Serature of London and New York juijto/f eg. The country is rioh m minerals, and its resources are being developed rapidly. In 1867 the foreign commeroeH of New Zealand was equal, to that of Norway. It was more than that of any of the South American States except. Brazil ; more than that of any African^ States except Egypt and Algeria; greater than that of Japan ; and was exceeded m Asia only by China, Java atk& the Straits Settlements. <It was exceeded m Australiasia only by Victoria and ' New South Wales.. In, 1875 its trade with the United States exceeded 10,000,000 dols. In 1876 the colony had 600 miles of railway, vkififc m 1878 something like 1000 miles. : .In , 1875 there were m operation Over 3000 miles of telegraph lines,, wish* a mileage of telegraph wire ceeding 7000 miles. These' are the latest statistics at hand ; andfthaQ rate of progress is such that they muse be largely increased to bring theAi wp to the figures required to indicate the present condition of the colony. It is to a country possessiifjg Zsjiohr J&tabjg^ capacities for commercial developments, and offering so many inducements for the cultivation of friendly relations^! that the asked-for models and speoi-*^ mens of machinery and industrial appliances are to go, to be placefl on view, as already Be id, under the most favorable conditions possible. We sincerely trust that our energetic, generous and far-seeing manufacturers will take the matter m hand earnestly, and that while Canterbury College is enriched by specimens of high educational value, the industries of the United States will have m them a'full-f and honorable presentation before 'ffie students of the inatitutidri and the "public, at large. < . . • ■