MORALS BEFORE PARTY.
TO SHE EDITOR. Sib,—ln your issue of 29th ult.,you have a very favorable little local item on a newspaper, lately published in Onehunga. I very much fear that you have been misled in your estimate of 2'Ae Manakau and Franklin Mail by that much abused term " liberal." Everyone calls himself liberal now-a-days. The Mail really is a liquor paper. Of the issue before me about 1-6 is taken up with liquor advertisements, liquor correspondence and horse-racing. It is really a liquor paper started in opposition to the Chronicle, a clean little paper with no liquor or gambling news in it. Moreover, the editor of the Mail, Rev. Finlay Wilson—goes out of his way to sneer atMr. I. E. Taylor, the Editor of the Chronicle as a"person of Sheldonian tendencies because he tries to keep his paper clean. It would be well if all our newspapers had more of the Sheldonians about them, I trust you will excuse my writing to you for you know we are somewhat proud of our Takanaki News a decent, respectable newspaper, free from grog or gambling, and I feel sorry that its columns in any way support a paper of the opposite tendency. Let us put morals before party, I do not ask you to publish this but of course you are at liberty to do so if you wish.—l am, etc., Geo. H. Maunder, AN ALTERNATIVE TRIP TO JAPAN. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—ln a letter I sent to your paper last week I outlined what I considered to bo a very enjoyable trip through the East; I now give an alternative tour which will be found to be one of considerable interest, especially to those who take a delight in viewing tropical growth in its wild luxuriance, and native people noted for their kindeess of disposition and simplicity of manners. In this sketch I suggest proceeding to Japan via. some of the Pacific islands. The best time for starting on this tour will be the same as I mentioned, before, May. By so doing, the Islands are reached in their dry season, and when the weather is comparatively cool. Having decided to go this way, of course, the first thing to be done, will be to procure a ticket from the S.S. Union Co. to Samoa, breaking the journey both at Auckland and Fiji; arrived at the latter place, I would recommend proceeding from Suva, the capital of Fiji, to Ba, by the Union Oo.'s steamer Maori. At .this place there is much to interest one for a day or two in looking over the large estates and mill, Jcc.. belonging to the Ba Sugar Company,; there are also some pretty rides iu the neighbourhood. Should the tourist not be afraid to encounter some rough walking, he might return to Suva overland, should he do so, he will be repaid by seeing some grand mountain scenery, and by making acquaintance with seme of the hill tribes who will be found more hospitable than those living on the coast, Before leaving Baa small stock of provisions should be procured from one of the stores there, and also a mosqnitor net, and a native should be hired to carry one's bag. The first night on the road should be spent at Nadaruvatu, where the Governor ha* a country residence. A magistrate also resides there, and from him it may be necessary to obtain a permit to proceed further, When staying at a native Tillage for a night a present of about 2s is made to the head man or the owner of the house where one sleeps. On reaching the Rawi River it will be necessary to hire a canoe, for which a charge of £2 is made, as several rapids have to be negotiated. On reaching Rawi there is a good hotel, it will be desirable to fiiish the journey to Bura by one of the steam launches that go there daily. In about ten days after reaching Fiji from Auckland, the Sydney boat should call on her way to Bamoa. I have spent some pleasant months amongst the islands of the Samoan group. Leaving Sot* by a 'Frisco mail boat, a few days steam will bring one to Honolulu, around which town there are some very charming drives, but the chief objeot of interest to be seen in the Hawaiian Islands, certainly, is the active volcano of Kahutahu, Hawaii. A steamer runs to Hilo very frequently, from which town there is a coach, which travels the magnificent road to Volcano House Hotel every alternate day. The descent into the volcano is very easy, and a near view of the lake of boiling liquid lava leaves snch a feeling of awe in the minds of those who see it which few other of the works of God on this earth will do. The only other scene which has made such a lasting impression on me was Niagara Falls, when I went into " the cave of the winds " beneath thom. Two or three lines of steamers run from Japan to America, calling at Honolulu, so there should be no difficulty in continuing the voyage to Yokohama. For the further prosecution of the tour both in Japan and the return voyage I must refer your readers to my last week's letter, i For a winter holiday trip I know of none which has pleased me as much as one to the Pacific Islands, I have been asked as to the cost of some such town as I have outlined; travelling by steam and rail and putting up at the best hotels need not cost more than £250 I know many persons far exceed this sum, and yet do not see as much of the countries they visit as they might, considering the money they spend. If more forethought was exercised and a route of travel arranged prior to starting, much expense might be saved.—l am, etc,, A. KYNGDON. October 11th, 1900.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 20, 13 October 1900, Page 2
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