ENGLAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13729, 20 October 1908, Page 2

ENGLAND.

* To the Editor of the "Tlmaru Herald." Breathes there 2 man with soul so dead. Who never to himself has said, 'lhis is my own my native land? Whose heart has neer within him binned, 1 As homeward his footsteps he has turned r From wandering iu a foreign land! If such there be—go, mark him well. Sir, —I am often interested in reading accounts in your paper of people who have gone Home and tell their experience to thebir fellow colonists when they come back, but 1 must say I was very much disappointed wilh Mr Cox's version of hid :rip, as from, beginning to end lie did not >ay one good word for the land of hit. birth, but rather the very opposite, and as it might mislead colonial who have never been out of New Zealand, and who think they k-ud the world in everything, I would lik« to correct some false impressions he may have made by bit> wild suuemenu. In the. first place, he bays the most enjoyable' part of the trip was the r * passage Home and out. If that is true, '• Ido envy him his sentiments, for however d , pleasant the trip may be on the sea, 1 *• should take it to be only a means to an * end, for after a man has been out here thirty or forty years, I should think tha dearest wish of his life would be to see his birthplace, and where his parents are r. buried, jf they are not still happily aJive. However, to go on with my subject. Ho says there are seven women to a man in Cornwall. 1 would like to ask Mr Cox what do all these women do, as there are no factories of importance in Cornwall. I | am well aware there are some mining district* that are deserted am the mines shut down, but there k general farming all over Cornwall. Then lie says (as we have often lieard before) that they are fifty years behind the times (of course he means Xew Zealand times), and ridicules the railway arrangement. Now everyone who has read about English railways knows that, they are the best in the world, and Jte most punctual timekeepers. Of ionise there may be exceptions to the rule. I might mention for Mr Cox's information thai the English railways are fifty years ahead of Xew Zealand railways. For instance, in the year 1864 i" went from Plymouth to London (about 220 milt*) in what was called the Parliamentary train—that is the slow train, as we call "it Ikmv—which stopped at fifty or sixty stations. perhaps more, and then it. was done bel t tween 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., which. I think, is good work and better than the average traiu does here now. It is equally as good, as the Main Trunk line that is to be opened next month, called express time. Then, again, Mr Cox was not. favourably impressed with the climate. We'll admit, it u not perfect, but he must remember that tiler* are a great many varieties of climate in Xew Zealand, some of them J very disagreeable. For example, the average number of days that rain falls in Auckland and Wellington in a year is about 175 days, nearly haJf the year wet. to nay nothing about disagreeable wind* that we get in some parts of Xew Zealand. And we must not forget, the snowfall* in this country, although I'll admit Timuru is one of the most favoured districts in „ Xew Zealand. Then, again, he says the Califoroian thistle is all over England. It may be in those parts that are partly deserted, but it could not get ahead v.-ry far where there is intense cultivation. Then Mr Cox has not even prated the scenery he saw in Cornwall or Devon. What could l>e more pleasnuL and beautiful than , a trip up the riv-r Tamar or ih- river ' Fal. from Falmouth to Truro, and then, again, ii you went on a railway journey from Plymouth to Penzance, what an in- _ finite variety of scenes there are in about 100 miles ■ " Mole. I will venture to say. than ill 1000 miles of railway in Xew iand. And tiieii there ate the int. tf*t in.; J harbour ami romantic n.jit liri. mound Cornwall, of which theie is no e.ju.il m the ?a me distance .invwlnie near civilis.t tion. I think 1 have said enough now to iefttte some of Mr Cox's assert join,. A« r--gards his rash ut-sein imi that he would rather break stones in Xew Zealand than live in idlen<i<i on £SOO a year in Eng t,. land. I t.iK- that, for what it i- worth a«- * v mer- idle talk, becauw- any..la- t li.it ian appreciate life propel h coii!d live iiioic al cmfort.lov in England than in N-« Z.m .d land ,1 he 1,.„ not f. »ork hard l-r a e- living I kia.w- a lot of |-,.|.i- x» II •. and t!ie |-oji'!.- jh.v oiuc knew ale deal and i.c.-iMer.d. Tiier-f,.,-.- there «n! ..1 u.l\e l>- sotlle divippoillttliellt* to l»e Illf . Y bill .1 «'-Il».lbIe tn.tll W.I! lie |>le|,a:. i •■.-. ~ .hang.-r.. and h"W v.: iui|>>rtaii'. »• >u.<\ >.- Ik in tha. roimtry. w fee! veiy -in..!; ..■ Home—l am. etc, I.OVKIi W MV o.'CXTI'.Y

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